Ongoing projects

All NEAR projects are based on at least two or more databases within NEAR. Below is a list of the ongoing projects.

1. Health Assessment Tool (HAT) validation – Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga, Karolinska Institutet
2. Physical function before death – Linda Enroth, University of Tampere, Finland
3. Life-course determinants of health status in the elderly – Debora Rizzuto, Karolinska Institutet
4. Medications effects on trajectories of biological age – Sara Hägg, Karolinska Institutet 
5. Simul-Age – Björn Slaug, Lund University
6. The effect of exclusion from social relations  – Andreas Motel-Klingebiel and George Pavlidis, Linköping University
7. Sleep disturbances, physical and cognitive frailty, and physical function – Shireen Sindi and Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga, Karolinska Institutet, and Laura Monica Perez, Vall d’Hebrón Institut de Recerca (VHIR), Barcelona
8. A metric for global brain integrity  – Lars Nyberg, Umeå University
9. Cohort differences in dementia risk factors in Sweden – Scott Hofer and Giulia Grande, Karolinska Institutet
10. Sleep disturbances and MRI – Shireen Sindi, Karolinska Institutet
11. Birth cohort differences in the body mass index (BMI)-mortality association – Anna Dahl Aslan, University of Skövde
12. Stress and cognitive and physical function – Ingemar Kåreholt, Jönköping University
13. Long-term prediction of dementia – Johan Sanmartin Berglund, Blekinge Institute of Technology
14. Aging frailty and cardiovascular risk – Francesca Leva, University of Milan
15. Sex-specific differences, inflammation, late-life depression – Ingmar Skoog, University of Gothenburg
16. Trends in prevalence of dementia – Chengxuan Qiu, Karolinska Institutet
17. Noise and mental health – Debora Rizzuto, Karolinska Institutet
18. Trajectories of care needs – Davide Vetrano, Karolinska Institutet
19. Green brain project – Cecilia Stenfors, Stockholm University
20. Care in people with dementia – Weili Xu, Karolinska Institutet
21. Systematic missing data – Nicola Orsini, Karolinska Institutet
22. Sleep, cognition and pain – Anders Behrens, Blekinge Institute of Technology
23. The role of physical health conditions for terminal decline in well-being – Denis Gerstorf, Humboldt University of Berlin 
24. Artificial intelligence (AI) and sleep apnea – Ashir Javeed, Blekinge Institute of Technology
25. Artificial intelligence (AI) and cancer – Ashir Javeed, Blekinge Institute of Technology
26. Smell and depression – Ingrid Ekström, Karolinska Institutet
27. Personality traits and biomarkers of cognitive disorders – Robert Sigström, University of Gothenburg
28. BMI and frailty index – Alessandra Marengoni, Brescia University
29. Herpes and cognitive decline – Pascal Geldsetzer, Stanford University
30. Intergenerational differences in cognitive trajectories: role of cardiovascular health and cognitive reserve – Giulia Grande, Karolinska Institutet  
31. Creating a ‘movement’ in dementia research using Swedish older adult data – Sydney Schaefer, Arizona State University
32. Patterns of stress across the life course and their role in mental health and loneliness in later life – Charlotta Nilsen, Jönköping University
33. Nutritional status among very old adults in urban and rural areas in Sweden – Birgitta Olofsson, Umeå University
34. Dietary patterns and malnutrition in older adults: a multicohort study – Adrián Carballo Casla, Karolinska Institutet
35. Validation of the Health Assessment Tool (HAT) in the Swedish National Study on Aging (SNAC), Part II, Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga, Karolinska Institutet