Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society

During the current pandemic where the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 causes the disease COVID-19, the Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society (NVS) wants to pay special attention to the situation of the elderly.

New publication "High excess mortality in areas with young and socially vulnerable populations during the COVID-19 outbreak in Stockholm Region, Sweden", BMJ Global Health. Co-authors are several NVS researchers.

On April 15, Aftonbladet published a debate article by 18 prominent researchers within the field of geriatrics and health care from several Swedish universities about the importance of not letting chronological age form the basis of decisions about who receives care within the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. They discuss biological age, frailty and the importance of comprehensive assessment.

Here are current research projects in Johansson's and Rising's research groups related to covid-19.

This autumn the Aging Research Center (a division of NVS) approached the Stockholm School of Photography at Folkuniversitetet to gauge their interest in a collaborative project with the purpose of producing representative photographs of older people based on the research conducted at ARC. 

In the division of physiotherapy, several researchers focus on elderly health. The research deals with effects of physical activity and training for different groups of elderly people and in different contexts such as home-living, hospitals and nursing homes. 

The right to participate in society is fundamental and even stated in our laws. The present situation with older adults being isolated due to the Corona virus shows how vulnerable this right is for those people in our society who have no access to interaction through digital technology.

Aftonbladet published a debate article on March 21 written by fourteen prominent geriatric reseachers from Swedish universities (several from NVS) about the need of more stringent actions to protect eldery persons from the CoVID-19.