News

8 October, 2020

The 4th Swedish Meeting for cohort studies in Uppsala October 12th The meeting will be held in English. Arranged by: EpiHealth in Uppsala. Lars Lind. When: Monday October 12th. Time:1.00 – 5:00 PM Programme and Zoom-link

29 September, 2020

NEAR’s second scientific workshop was conducted remotely over Zoom with 82 connected participants. It was chaired by Debora Rizzuto. After a short update and welcome address by Laura Fratiglioni, Johan Skoog from the University of Gothenburg presented the NEAR sleep disturbance and cognition project, an ongoing cooperation between researchers in the H70, KP&SNAC-K, GÅS/SNAC-S, CAIDE […]

3 June, 2020

The Swedish Delegation for Senior Labour has published a new report: “70 is the new 50”, written by Professor Ingmar Skoog at the University of Gothenburg, who’s a member of the NEAR Steering Board. The report builds on results from the H70 database  studies in Gothenburg and shows that today’s 70–75 year olds are much […]

4 March, 2020

The NEAR database managers will conduct an E-meeting on 16 April.

6 February, 2020

The different regional projects within The Swedish National study on Aging and Care (SNAC) have begun their 7th wave of data collection in 2019 and will continue into 2022. In this phase there is both a follow-up of previous participants and also a recruitment of new cohorts of 60 and 81 year olds. The Gothenburg […]