Ongoing projects

On this page you find a list of all ongoing projects at ARC, sorted in alphabetical order by the PI’s last name.

PI: Neda Agahi
Project title: Aging in flux: How changing behaviors and lifestyles in the new cohorts are reshaping old age
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (Forte)
Timeline: 2021-2023

PI: Janne Agerholm
Project title: Integrated care for older people with complex health problems. How does it affect health, health care utilization and health equity?
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare (Forte)
Timeline: 2018-2019

PI: Lars Bäckman
Project title: Cognition, brain and aging: Longitudinal analyses
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2018-2021

PI: Lars Bäckman
Project title: Cognition, brain, and aging (COBRA)
Funded by: af Jochnick Foundation
Timeline: 2011-2020

PI: Lars Bäckman
Project title: Cognitive aging: From observational studies to intervention
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare (Forte)
Timeline: 2013-2018

PI: Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga
Title: Monitoring older adults’ health for preventive and early interventions: use of the Health Assessment Tool (HAT) in the Swedish primary care setting
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2022-2024

PI: Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga
Project title: Older adults’ contribution to informal caregiving: temporal trends, profiles and adverse health consequences
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare (Forte)
Timeline: 2022-2024

PI: Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga
Project title: Effectiveness of interventions to address the negative health outcomes of informal caregiving to older adults: an umbrella review
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare (Forte)
Timeline: 2021

PI: Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga
Project title: Phenotypes of healthier aging: The role of environmental, behavioral, and biological factors in health trajectories
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2017-2020

PI: Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga
Project title: Does our healthcare system truly fit older people? Impact of multidimensional health trajectories on the use of medical and social care services
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare (Forte)
Timeline: 2017-2019

PI: Lena Dahlberg
Project title: Pushed to the edge of society: Social exclusion among older women and men in Sweden
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare (Forte)
Timeline: 2018-2020

PI: Serhiy Dekthyar
Project title: Mental health in old age: The role of social disadvantages throughout the life course and across birth cohorts
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare (Forte)
Timeline: 2019-2021

PI: Megan Doheny
Project title: Untangling the relationship between health and social care spending in the last year of life
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare (Forte)
Timeline: 2023-2024

PI: Stefan Fors
Project title: Evolving gender differences in health & care across cohorts (FUTUREGEN)
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2019-2021

PI: Laura Fratiglioni
Project title: Collateral damage of COVID-19 in older adults: short and long-term health consequences of the epidemic outbreak
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2020-2021

PI: Laura Fratiglioni
Project title: Disentangling complexity of health in aging: A new research environment to pave the road for individual medicine
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2017-2022

PI: Laura Fratiglioni
Project title: Aging through life: Identifying new pathways for living longer and healthier
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare (Forte)
Timeline: 2017-2021

PI: Laura Fratiglioni
Project title: Not all older adults develop dementia: Exploring underlying compensatory mechanisms related to healthy brain aging
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2017-2020

PI: Laura Fratiglioni
Project title: The body-mind connection: Exploring the biological mechanisms underlying the effects of somatic health on brain aging
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2013-2018

PI’s at ARC: Johan Fritzell and Neda Agahi. Overall PI: Tine Rostgaard, Roskilde University and Stockholm University
Project title: Why are some people resilient when faced with adversities in later life and other not (Bounce back)?
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare (Forte)
Timeline: 2022-2025

PI: Johan Fritzell
Project title: Social Inequalities in Ageing (SIA)-network
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare (Forte)
Timeline: 2022-2024

PI: Johan Fritzell
Project title: Does inequality increase among older persons in Sweden? A multidimensional perspective
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2018-2023

PI: Johan Fritzell
Project title: Health and mortality in older Europeans – A matter of cash and care?
Funded by: Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation
Timeline: 2018-2023

PI: Johan Fritzell
Project title: Inequality dynamics over the life course: Family and policy influences
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare (Forte)
Timeline: 2017-2023

PI: Johan Fritzell
Project title: European Social Policy Network Programme
Funded by: ESPN
Timeline: 2016-2022

PI: Giulia Grande
Project title: Promoting cognitive health by exploring intergenerational differences in cognitive trajectories among Swedish older adults
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare (Forte)
Timeline: 2023-2024

PI: Marc Guitart-Masip
Project title: Mapping the neural and computational traces of lack of controllability and their relevance for depression
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2022-2024

PI: Marc Guitart-Masip
Project title: Quantifying prior beliefs for affective decision making and their relation to symptoms of depression
Funded by: Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation
Timeline: 2021-2025

PI: Marc Guitart-Masip
Project title: Uncontrollable stress, dopamine and decision-making in health and depression: Preliminary study
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2019-2021

PI: Grégoria Kalpouzos
Project title: Role of brain iron and microbleeds in cognitive and physical function in a population-based study on aging: A deep-learning approach
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2022-2024

PI: Grégoria Kalpouzos
Project title: IronAge
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2018-2021

PI: Ingemar Kåreholt
Project title: Psychosocial working conditions and late-life physical functioning: What role do gender, socioeconomic position, work-life balance, and coping mechanisms play?
Funded by: Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation
Timeline: 2017-2020

PI: Erika Jonsson Laukka
Project title: Long-lasting cognitive and olfactory deficits following mild COVID-19 – modifying factors, brain correlates, and prognostic impact for well-being and daily functioning
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2022-2025

PI: Erika Jonsson Laukka
Project title: Olfactory function, cognitive aging, and dementia
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2021-2024

PI: Erika Jonsson Laukka
Project title: Longitudinal trajectories of olfactory abilities: What predicts old-age olfactory memory decline?
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2018-2020

PI: Carin Lennartsson
Project title: The Swedish Panel Study of Living Conditions of the Oldest Old – SWEOLD Covid-19
Funded by: FORMAS
Timeline: 2020-2021

PI: Carin Lennartsson
Project title: Cash and care. Intergenerational transfers in the families of the oldest-old and their consequences for inequality
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2020-2022

PI: Carin Lennartsson
Project title: Long-term health effects of extending working life: Effects of raising lower and upper pension eligibility ages on health and health inequalities in late-life
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare (Forte)
Timeline: 2019-2021

PI: Martin Lövdén
Project title: Expansion-exploration-selection-refinement (ESR) theory of how the human brain acquires motor skill
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2019-2021

PI: Martin Lövdén
Project title: The causal effect of education on health in late life
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare (Forte)
Timeline: 2019-2021

PI: Martin Lövdén
Project title: Temporal dynamics of adult brain plasticity: Effects of motor learning on brain anatomy and cognitive functions in adulthood
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2016-2020

PI: Martin Lövdén
Project title: Releasing the brakes on adult plasticity (REBOOT)
Funded by: European Research Council (ERC) and the Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2013-2019

PI: Bettina Meinow
Project title: Longer lives, healthier lives? Patterns of severe health problems and dependency in the last years of life
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2017-2019

PI: Goran Papenberg
Project title: The Role of DNA Methylation in Dopaminergic Neuromodulation of Cognitive Aging
Funded by: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
Timeline: 2021-2023

PI: Goran Papenberg
Project title: Mechanisms of Cognitive Aging: The Roles of Brain Iron Accumulation and Neuroinflammation
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2020-2023

PI: Jonas Persson
Project title: The transience and persistence of memory: Linking neurobehavioral mechanisms of adaptive forgetting to adult aging and mood
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2018-2021

PI: Jonas Persson
Project title: The relation between dopamine-regulating genes, neurocognition, and aging
Funded by: The Swedish Brain Foundation (Hjärnfonden)
Timeline: 2017-2022

PI: Chengxuan Qiu
Project title: Chronic hypoxia as a possible pathway linking clinical conditions of the heart, lungs, and blood with accelerated brain aging
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2021-2024

PI: Chengxuan Qiu
Project title: Exploring the complex interplay between lifestyle factors, brain pathology, and cognitive reserve in cognitive decline and dementia
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
Timeline: 2018-2020

PI: Chengxuan Qiu
Project title: Sino-Sweden Network for Aging Research: Differential impacts of biomedical and environmental factors on cognitive aging across cultures
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2018-2020

PI: Chengxuan Qiu
Project title: The role of cerebral small vessel disease in cognitive aging
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2017-2019

PI: Johan Rehnberg
Project title: Improving population health in the older population: is there a trade-off between efficiency and equity?
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare (Forte)
Timeline: 2021-2022

PI: Debora Rizzuto
Project title: Can a healthy physical and social environment compress the period of disability in older adults?
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare (Forte)
Timeline: 2017-2019

PI: Alireza Salami
Project title: Can reduced dopamine availability and disrupted functional brain connectome serve as biomarkers for cognitive decline in aging?
Funded by: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
Timeline: 2021-2023

PI: Alireza Salami
Project title: Brain functional connectome across the human lifespan: Links to white matter degeneration, dopamine depletion, and cognitive decline (DyNAMiC)
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2017-2020

PI: Pär Schön
Project title: Ageing in place – from policy to practice. Consequences of the de-institutionalisation of Swedish eldercare for older people and their family members
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare (Forte)
Timeline: 2022-2024

PI: Davide L Vetrano
Project title: Biomarker signatures of progressing multimorbidity: in pursuit of personalized approaches to clinically complex older individuals
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2021-2025

PI: Davide L Vetrano
Project title: Biomarker signatures of the multimorbidity-frailty continuum: in pursuit of personalized medicine for older adults
Funded by: SFOepi
Timeline: 2022-2023

PI: Davide L Vetrano
Project title: Trajectories of care needs and care transitions after age 60: the interplay between individuals’ frailty, their environment, and personal perspectives
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare (Forte)
Timeline: 2021-2025

PI: Davide L Vetrano
Project title: AFFIRMO (Atrial Fibrillation integrated approach in FraIl, multimoRbid and polyMedicated Older people)
Funded by: European Union
Timeline: 2021-2025

PI: Davide L Vetrano
Project title: I-CARE4OLD (Individualized CARE for OLDer persons with complex chronic conditions in home care and nursing homes)
Funded by: European Union
Timeline: 2021-2025

PI: Anna-Karin Welmer
Project title: Social Health And Reserve in the Dementia patient journey (SHARED)
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare (Forte)
Timeline: 2019-2021

PI: Weili Xu
Project title: Reducing Dementia Risk in Older Adults Affected by Cardio-Metabolic Disease
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2022-2024

PI: Weili Xu
Project title: Understanding the complex and progressive care needs of older adults with cognitive disorders to provide timely and personalized care delivery
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life, and Welfare (Forte)
Timeline: 2021-2025

PI: Weili Xu
Project title: Identifying compensatory mechanisms against dementia in diabetes
Funded by: The Swedish Research Council (VR)
Timeline: 2018-2021