Project aiming to promote sustainable health and wellbeing in elderly Sámi and Inuit population in Norway, Sweden, and Greenland by developing culturally tailored digital health tools in Indigenous and Scandinavian languages.
Project addressing the challenge of sustainability of Long-Term Care (LTC) for older people living at home, seeing this as an integration of formal and informal care systems.
Project to produce new knowledge to equip the health and social care systems in the Nordic and Baltic countries to meet the challenges of a growing population of older adults with substance use disorders.
The government chooses which medicines patients are offered, and in Norway the seriously ill are prioritised. Health benefits are weighed against financial costs, but changes in the evidence base for drug authorisation are putting the practice to the test.
New university co-operation educates next generation of researchers in precision psychiatry. The aim is to develop and implement new tools for disease prediction and personalised treatment.
NordForsk announces funding for a project that will produce a report to support the formulation of the Nordic guidelines for research involving Indigenous people.
Elderly immigrants in the Nordics are at higher risk of health problems, yet the welfare systems have limited experience in supporting this group. The HEALTHCOM project explores how physical activity can promote both health and integration.