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. Physical function before death – Linda Enroth, University of Tampere, Finland
2. Medications effects on trajectories of biological age – Sara Hägg, Karolinska Institutet 
3. Simul-Age – Björn Slaug, Lund University
4. The effect of exclusion from social relations  – Andreas Motel-Klingebiel and George Pavlidis, Linköping University
5. A metric for global brain integrity  – Lars Nyberg, Umeå University
6. Sleep disturbances and MRI – Shireen Sindi, Karolinska Institutet
7. Birth cohort differences in the body mass index (BMI)-mortality association – Anna Dahl Aslan, University of Skövde
8. Stress and cognitive and physical function – Ingemar Kåreholt, Jönköping University
9. Aging frailty and cardiovascular risk – Francesca Leva, University of Milan
10. Sex-specific differences, inflammation, late-life depression – Ingmar Skoog, University of Gothenburg
11. The role of physical health conditions for terminal decline in well-being – Denis Gerstorf, Humboldt University of Berlin 
12. Sleep, cognition and pain – Anders Behrens, Blekinge Institute of Technology
13. Care in people with dementia – Weili Xu, Karolinska Institutet
14. Trajectories of care needs – Davide Vetrano, Karolinska Institutet
15. Smell and depression – Ingrid Ekström, Karolinska Institutet
16. Personality traits and biomarkers of cognitive disorders – Robert Sigström, University of Gothenburg
17. BMI and frailty index – Alessandra Marengoni, Brescia University
18. Herpes and cognitive decline – Pascal Geldsetzer, Stanford University
19. Intergenerational differences in cognitive trajectories: role of cardiovascular health and cognitive reserve – Giulia Grande, Karolinska Institutet  
20. Creating a ‘movement’ in dementia research using Swedish older adult data – Sydney Schaefer, Arizona State University
21. Nutritional status among very old adults in urban and rural areas in Sweden – Birgitta Olofsson, Umeå University
22. Dietary patterns and malnutrition in older adults: a multicohort study – Adrián Carballo Casla, Karolinska Institutet
23. Validation of the Health Assessment Tool (HAT) in the Swedish National Study on Aging (SNAC), Part II, Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga, Karolinska Institutet
24. Old-age depression: Temporal and regional differences and their implications for treatment and healthcare utilization patterns in old age – Serhiy Dekhtyar, Karolinska Institutet
25. Low and Declining Risk-factors preceding Dementia (LODERID) study – Jan Willem van Dalen, Radboud University Medical Center
26. Validation of dementia diagnosis – Debora Rizzuto, Karolinska Institute
27. Identifying Falls Risk Factors in Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment: Toward Targeted Prevention Strategies – Anna-Karin Welmer, Karolinska Institutet
28. An investigation into the use of Swedish snus and its association with cognition and dementia – Manasa Shanta Näsholm, Karolinska Institutet
29. Female-specific factors, biological and neuroimaging correlates, and the risk of dementia – Jessica Gong, University College London
30. Development of Predictive Models for Dementia and COPD Using AI and Longitudinal Data – Ana Luiza Dallora Moraes, Blekinge Tekniska Högskol
31. Transforming Care for Older Adults with Cardiometabolic and Cognitive Multimorbidity: Person-Centred, Integrated, and Action-Oriented Approaches for Real-World Complexity – Weili Xu, Karolinska Institutet
32. Sex disparities in social health, resilience, and cognition across the life course: the interplay between biological and sociocultural aspects – Anna Marseglia, Karolinska Institutet
33. Artificial intelligence (AI) and dementia – Ashir Javeed, Blekinge Institute of Technology
34. Diabetes and cognitive trajectories – Francesca Remelli, Università degli studi di Ferrara