The project receives funding from Prime Minister’s Office (VN-TEAS, tietokayttoon.fi), 248.000€. Duration of the project is 6/2016 – 2/2017. The central goal of the ASUVA-project is to map international and national innovative housing models, which promote a sense of community…
Low weight at birth increased the risk of disability pension among men, reveals a new Finnish study published in the PLoS One. Around 20% of the cohort members born in 1934–44 retired on a disability pension between 1971 and 2011.…
The use of sheltered housing with 24-hour assistance, a community long-term care service, has increasingly replaced institutional long-term care in the past years in Finland. In institutional care, the medicine costs are included in the regular monthly fee and covered…
The Academy of Finlands´Rezsearch Council for Health has granted funding for two research project in GEREC for years 2015-2019 Marja Jylhä (UTA): The longevity revolution- implications for the need and costs of health and social careOlder people need care services…
Dissertation: 17.2.2017 Walking, physical activity, and life-space mobility among older people (Tsai) TtM Li-Tang Tsain defends her doctoral dissertation in Gerontology and Public Health ”Walking, physical activity and life-space mobility among older people”. Opponent, Adjunct Professor, Academy Researcher Sari Stenholm…
A pleasant environment with parks, green areas and walking routes can promote mobility among older community-dwelling individuals found a study conducted at GEREC. “Older people who have outdoor recreational facilities, such as walking routes located near their homes, are more…
The Academy of Finland’s Research Council for Health has decided to fund ten new research posts as Academy Research Fellow and one of them is Sari Stenholm acting professor of gerontology from University of Tampere. The aim of the five-year…
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…
The 9-year follow-up study in the Vitality 90+ Study showed that also in nonagenarians older age, male gender, the activities of daily living (ADL) disability and mobility disability, poor self-rated health and institutionalization increased the risk of mortality. Especially in…
Plasma cell-free DNA (cf-DNA) has recently emerged as a new biomarker of age-associated systemic inflammation and cell death. . In this study we analyzed the associations between the distinct cf-DNA species (i.e. unmethylated cf-DNA, mitochondrial DNA, RNAse P gene-coding cf-DNA,…
Research news: Circulating cell-free DNA is associated with mortality and inflammatory markers in nonagenarians: the Vitality 90+ Study. Advanced age is typically accompanied with low-grade inflammation – a phenomenon that has also been demonstrated to predict longevity in several studies.…
Post Doctoral researcher Elina Sillanpää was awarded in Young scientist competition organized by the Finnish Society of Sport Sciences in Jyväskylä June 12, 2013. Her presentation and research abstract was based on article ”Muscle power is associated with ventilatory function…