Unit profile
Description
The profile area develops transdisciplinary health promotive strategies for proactive ageing. It focuses particularly on cognitive functions and musculoskeletal health as prerequisites for activity and participation. The profile area will develop methods for early identification of individuals and groups at risk of poor health or other vulnerabilities, using economic, social as well as biological markers. The aim is to identify and develop proactive preventive measures that contribute to improved health and quality of life for future generations of older people.
Proactive ageing is one out of five profile areas at Lund University.
More about us
Coordinator
Susanne Iwarsson
Professor
More about our research
Lund University got a long tradition of conducting research within the field of Proactive aging. Please visit the following link to see research from Lunds University done before the establishment of the Profile area Proactive Ageing, in January 2023.
Overall search on procative ageing and ageing research in the Research Portal
Research outputs on proactive ageing and ageing research in the Research Portal
UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Our work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
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Profiles
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Eva Ageberg
- Sport Sciences - Research team manager, Professor
- EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health - Member of Strategic Research Area
- Faculty of Medicine - Vice dean
- LU Profile Area: Proactive Ageing - Profile area member
Person
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Sonja Aits
- Cell Death, Lysosomes and Artificial Intelligence - Researcher, Research team manager
- eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration - Member of Strategic Research Area
- LUCC: Lund University Cancer Centre - Member of research environment
- EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health - Member of Strategic Research Area
- LTH Profile Area: AI and Digitalization - Profile area member
- LU Profile Area: Natural and Artificial Cognition - Profile area member
- LU Profile Area: Nature-based future solutions - Profile area member
- LTH Profile Area: Engineering Health - Profile area member
- LU Profile Area: Proactive Ageing - Profile area member
- BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate - Member of Strategic Research Area
- Centre for preparedness and resilience (LUPREP) - Affiliated researcher
Person: Academic
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Neserin Ali
- Lund OsteoArthritis Division - Clinical Epidemiology Unit - Research project participant
- Orthopaedics (Lund) - Associate researcher
- LU Profile Area: Proactive Ageing - Profile area member
Person
Research output
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Bladder under stress: Pathological and adaptive shifts in channel expression
Swärd, K., Andersson, K.-E. & Uvelius, B., 2026 Dec, In: Channels. 20, 1, 2652649.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Embodied word learning in schools and sustained attention in virtual reality
Rudling, M., Rumetshofer, T., Nirme, J. & Mårtensson, J., 2026 Dec, In: npj Science of Learning. 11, 1, 9.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Fluid biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases: a comprehensive update
Valletta, M., Briel, N., Yuksekel, I., Barboure, M., Coward, A., De Houwer, J. F. H., Fawad, A., González-Mayoral, A., Iaccarino, G., Martínez-Dubarbie, F., Moukaled, S., Andreasson, U., Gobom, J., Brinkmalm, A., Tijms, B., Zetterberg, H., Blennow, K., Suárez-Calvet, M., Schöll, M. & Paterson, R. W. & 2 others, , 2026 Dec, In: Alzheimer's Research and Therapy. 18, 1, 12.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Open Access
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Two diagnoses-double trouble? Exploring care trajectories, strategies and encounters between individuals with serious mental illness and cancer comorbidity, their relatives, and health and social care professionals (Danish context)
Glasdam, S. (Researcher), Stjernswärd, S. (Researcher), Berring, L. L. (PI), Rostad, E. E. (CoI) & Legind-Hansen Taarup, C. (Research student)
2026/04/01 → 2030/03/31
Project: Research
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Prioriteringsbeslut i hälso- och sjukvården under kris och krig
Svensson, E. (Researcher), Litins'ka, Y. (Supervisor) & Mattsson, T. (Assistant supervisor)
2026/02/01 → …
Project: Dissertation
Infrastructure
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Helsingborg Safety Hub
Ronchi, E. (Manager), D'Agostino, C. (Manager) & Gefenaite, G. (Manager)
Division of Fire Safety EngineeringInfrastructure
Activities
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The Datafied Citizen
Litins'ka, Y. (Participant)
2026 Jun 4Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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Neurofutures: Promises and Perils of Neurotechnologies
Rinaldi, A. (Organiser), Dunér, I. (Organiser), Hug, K. (Organiser), Mårtensson, J. (Organiser), Sikström, S. (Organiser), Lukoseviciene, A. (Organiser), Barinaga, E. (Organiser) & Andrew, J. (Organiser)
2026 May 27Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organisation of workshop/ seminar/ course
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Shaping Aging Futures: Emerging Societal Challenges and Research Directions
Sala, E. (Organiser), Xu, W. (Organiser) & Kochergina, E. (Organiser)
2026 May 20Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organisation of workshop/ seminar/ course
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Prizes and distinction
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Kockska Stiftelsernas Medicinska Pris 2025
Englund, M. (Recipient), 2026 Jan 22
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Kockska priset för medicinsk forskning
Mattsson-Carlgren, N. (Recipient), 2026
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Datasets
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OpenChart-SE: A corpus of artificial Swedish electronic health records for imagined emergency care patients written by physicians in a crowd-sourcing project
Berg, J. (Creator), Aasa Ollvik, C. (Creator), Appelgren Thorell, B. (Creator) & Aits, S. (Creator), Zenodo, 2022 Dec 19
Dataset
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Files and code for English dictionaries, gold and silver standard corpora for biomedical natural language processing related to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19
Kazemi Rashed, S. (Creator), Rafsan Ahmed (Creator), Frid, J. (Creator) & Sonja Aits (Creator), Zenodo, 2025 Jun 12
Dataset
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An annotated high-content fluorescence microscopy dataset with EGFP-Galectin-3-stained cells and manually labelled outlines
Kazemi Rashed, S. (Creator), Arvidsson, M. (Creator), Ahmed, R. (Creator) & Aits, S. (Creator), Zenodo, 2021 Jun 24
Dataset