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 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. Sleep and Cognition – Johan Skoog, University of Gothenburg
16. Sex-specific differences, inflammation, late-life depression – Ingmar Skoog, University of Gothenburg
17. Trends in prevalence of dementia – Chengxuan Qiu, Karolinska Institutet
18. Noise and mental health – Debora Rizzuto, Karolinska Institutet
19. Trajectories of care needs – Davide Vetrano, Karolinska Institutet
20. Trends in dementia incidence and MCI – Giulia Grande, Karolinska Instiutet
21. Care in people with dementia – Weili Xu, Karolinska Institutet
22. Systematic missing data – Nicola Orsini, Karolinska Institutet