We conduct research in four major areas:
- Longevity, morbidity, and functioning
- Treatment and care of older persons
- Health trends and inequality
- Brain aging
Brain aging is the largest of the four areas. ARC’s researchers collaborate across sectors in nearly 30 projects within our four research areas.
Scientific projects by research area:
Longevity, morbidity, and functioning
- Aging through life: identifying new pathways for living longer and healthier
Laura Fratiglioni, PI - Can a healthy physical and social environment compress the period of disability in older adults?
Deobra Rizzuto, PI - Disentangling complexity of health in aging: a new research environment to pave the road for individual medicine
Laura Fratiglioni, PI - Examining the factors that contribute to human longevity using a life-course perspective
Debora Rizzuto, PI - Healthy aging through internet counselling in the elderly
Miia Kivipelto, PI - Lei Feng: Understanding the differences in aging and health between North Europe and Asia
Chengxuan Qiu, PI - Phenotypes of healthier aging: the role of environmental, behavioral, and biological factors in health trajectories
Amaia Calderon Larrañaga, PI - Thinking, moving, and falling: early detection of fall-prone phenotypes as targets for primary interventions—a translational study
Anna-Karin Welmer, PI - Using multidimensional prognostic indices to improve cost-effectiveness of interventions in multimorbid, frail older persons (MPI_AGE)
Anna-Karin Welmer, PI of the Swedish work package - Who lives alone during old age? Investigating the diverse conditions and prospects for healthy aging of older adults in single-person households
Neda Agahi, PI
Treatment and care of older persons
- Aging in context: health trends, inequalities and lifestyle in the aging population
Carin Lennartsson, PI - Does our healthcare system truly fit older people? Impact of multidimensional health trajectories on the use of medical and social care services
Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga, PI - Drug prescribing in end-of-life care in nursing homes: improved treatment across countries
Kristina Johnell, PI - MiniQ – A web-based system to optimize drug treatment in elderly people
Kristina Johnell, PI - Optimizing drug treatment in old age: a novel translational research project
Kristina Johnell, PI - Patient-centered IT-support for quality and safety of drug use in older adults: The QS-project
Johan Fastbom, PI - Quality and cost-effectiveness in long-term care and dependency prevention
Lennarth Johansson and Pär Schön, PIs of the Swedish part of the project - Why do older people seek emergency care? Causes, circumstances and explanations
Pär Schön, PI
Health trends and inequality
- Inequality dynamics over the life course: family and policy influences
Johan Fritzell, PI - Inequality impacts: the income gradient in mortality – shape, social patterning, and trends
Johan Fritzell, PI - Longer lives, healthier lives? Patterns of severe health problems and dependency in the last years of life
Bettina Meinow, PI - Psychosocial working conditions and late-life physical functioning: What role do gender, socioeconomic position, work-life balance, and coping mechanisms play?
Ingemar Kåreholt, PI - Pushed to the edge of society: Social exclusion among older women and men in Sweden
Lena Dahlberg, PI - Social inequalities in ageing (SIA): health, care, and institutional reforms in the Nordic welfare model
Johan Fritzell, PI - Social inequalities of health in Sweden and Brazil – aspects of time and space
Johan Fritzell, PI - Time trends and determinants of disability in activities of daily living among elderly people in central Stockholm, 1987-2013
Chengxuan Qiu, PI
Brain aging
- Brain functional connectome across the human lifespan: links to white matter degeneration, dopamine depletion, and cognitive decline
Alireza Salami, PI - Cognition, brain, and aging (COBRA)
Lars Bäckman, PI - Cognitive aging: from observational studies to intervention
Lars Bäckman, PI - Cognitive fatigue in aging: psychological and neurobiological mechanisms
Jonas Persson, PI - CoSTREAM: A multidisciplinary approach to understand the link between stroke and Alzheimer’s
Laura Fratiglioni, PI of the Swedish work package - Dopamine and behavioral control across the adult lifespan
Marc Guitart-Masip, PI - Early detection of dementia: finding the best combination of cognitive and non-cognitive markers of preclinical dementia
Erika Jonsson Laukka, PI - IronAge
Gregoria Kalpouzos, PI - Mapping and intervening with the behavioral factors influencing cognitive aging
Martin Lövdén, PI - Multimodal strategies to promote a healthy brain in aging: innovative evidence-based tools (MULTI-MODE)
Miia Kivipelto, PI - Neurocognitive fatigue, restoration, and resilience—effects of natural vs. urban environments
Cecilia Stenfors, PI - Not all older adults develop dementia: exploring underlying compensatory mechanisms related to healthy brain aging
Laura Fratiglioni, PI - Releasing the brakes on adult plasticity (REBOOT)
Martin Lövdén, PI - Structure and volume of the olfactory brain: relationships to olfactory dysfunction, cognitive decline, and prospective dementia
Erika Laukka, PI - Temporal dynamics of adult brain plasticity: effects of motor learning on brain anatomy and cognitive functions in adulthood Claudio Brozzoli, PI
- The body-mind connection: exploring the biological mechanisms underlying the effects of somatic health on brain aging
Laura Fratiglioni, PI - The relation between dopamine-regulating genes, neurocognition, and aging
Jonas Persson, PI - The role of cerebral small vessel disease in cognitive aging
Chengxuan Qiu, PI
