A recent study, conducted at the Gerontology Research Center of the University of Jyväskylä, shows that walk-friendly environmental design may provide opportunities for physical activity in old age. However, especially when mobility function starts to decline, it is important that…
29th August, 2013, University of Tampere Contentsaging and cognition, caregiving, human-computer interaction, older workers abilities, training, and functional assessment.Learning outcome:After the course students know the abilities of older people to use technology and can apply the knowledge in their research.Attendance:…
The Rector of the University of Tampere has appointed Ilkka Pietilä for two-year fixed-term Fellowship (Senior Research Fellow) at the Institute for Advanced Social Research. 11 fellowships for Post-doctoral Researchers and Senior Research Fellows were declared open in Spring 2015…
Very old people often need round-the-clock long-term care (LTC) in the last phase of life. As longevity is becoming more common, more people live the last years of life at very old age. The association of this change with use…
Socioeconomic status is associated with health and functioning also among the oldest old adults. The results came from the Vitality 90+ study, the School of Health Sciences and Gerontology Research center, University of Tampere. The study was based on the…
The Scientific Committee welcomes symposia from all fields in ageing research. We particularly encourage cross-disciplinary research and sessions co-organized by research groups from different countries. Detailed instructions can be found on 23NKG webpage.
General or abdominal obesity does not predict the development of mobility disability or activities of daily living disbaility in nonagenarians, i.e., in 90-year-old people. This was found in a study published by the University of Tampere and the Gerontology Research…
A fall and subsequent injury decreases a person’s balance confidence and increases his or her fear of falling, was found by postdoctoral researcher Erja Portegijs in a study performed at the Gerontology Research Center in collaboration with the Central Finland…
A position of university lecturer in gerontology at U TampereDear friendsa fixed-term (until 2019) position of university lecturer in gerontology is open at the University of Tampere.https://uta.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_RJ&jgid=1&jid=650For more information, please contact Professor Marja Jylhä at marja.jylha@uta.fi. Gerontology Research Center;PO Box…
A new research shows that accounts of functioning differ between long- term care nurses and older people living in long-term care. For the nurses, functional ability was about the basic functions of everyday life, and they often used formal and…
Mentally and particularly physically straining work in midlife increased the need for hospital care in older age, reveals a new study published in the Age and Ageing journal. This was confirmed in the Finnish Longitudinal Study on Municipal Employees (FLAME),…
A Nordic comparative study indicates that of the Finnish men born in the middle of 1910´s only 24 % survived to the age of 75, whereas among the Swedish and Danish men the corresponding proportions were 49 and 42 percent.…