Miia Kivipelto gives two popular-science lectures
ARC Professor Miia Kivipelto spoke about lifestyle factors that protect against dementia during Brain Day (Hjärnans Dag) on 23 April in Stockholm. The yearly event is organized by the Swedish Brain Foundation (Hjärnfonden) and was attended by nearly 1000 people. …
Two ARC employees interviewed as part of Karolinska Institutet video series
Professor Miia Kivipelto and Financial Administrator Cecilia Annerholm have been interviewed as part of Karolinska Institutet’s “Meet our colleagues” series. The videos, in Swedish, are found on Karolinska Institutet’s YouTube channel. To watch the videos, click on the names below: Miia Kivipelto …
ARC-supervised bachelor’s essay nominated for national prize
Stockholm University’s Department of Social Work has nominated Rebecka Falk and Erica Risberg essay, “The tax rebate for household services—a necessary luxury” (“RUT – En nödvändig lyx”) to a competition for the best bachelor’s essay in the field of social …
ARC psychologists benefit from experts’ comments at three-day retreat
Eighteen members of ARC’s psychology sector participated in a three-day scientific retreat on Lidingö in Sweden this month. The aim of the retreat was for sector members to receive constructive comments on their ongoing research from leading international experts in …
Laura Fratiglioni speaks at American Academy of Neurology meeting
ARC’s director Laura Fratiglioni was recently invited to speak at the Frontiers in Translational Neuroscience Plenary Session of the 2013 annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology in San Diego. The topic of her presentation was “Alzheimer’s Disease in …
Swedish National Study of Aging and Care publishes newsletter
The Swedish National Study of Aging and Care (SNAC), has published a new issue of its twice-yearly Swedish-language newsletter. SNAC was started at the request of the Swedish government in 2001 to help determine health and social services needs of older people in the future …
New ARC study on risk of dementia published in Neurology
A new study by ARC researchers Chengxuan Qiu, Eva von Strauss, Lars Bäckman, Bengt Winblad, and Laura Fratiglioni suggests that the risk of developing dementia may have declined over the past 20 years in Stockholm. The study, published in the online version …
House of Aging Research profiled in Affärstidningen Näringsliv
ARC, the Stockholm Gerontology Research Center, and the Swedish Dementia Center–which together constitute the House of Aging Research–are described in an article in “Swedish Life Science,” a supplement distributed with the most recent issue of Affärstidningen Näringsliv, a Swedish newspaper. …
Dementia a threat to public health and the economy
Professors Bengt Winblad and Anders Wimo, both affiliated with ARC, contributed to an editorial published yesterday in the Swedish daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. The article, which focuses on the lack of balance between the magnitude of the problem of dementia and the funding …
