Umeå University

Ageing and Living Conditions

Interdisciplinary research at Umeå University will address the processes forming living conditions for old and young in the face of rapidly increasing numbers of elderly people. This will be done in a strongly integrated research environment, including the Centre for Population Studies and BETULA, two Swedish Research Council “strong research environments".

The new milieu includes senior and junior researchers in demography, geography, economics, statistics, public health, psychology, history and ethnology, as well as a doctoral programme. A particular strength is the coordinated use of outstanding national and international research databases representing a unique coverage of time, space, numbers and contents.

The current focus is the dynamic interaction of population ageing, participation of the elderly in work and society, and successful ageing of the individual. Processes and outcomes will be studied on the population-, socio-cultural- and individual levels by combining theory, methodology and data from all participating disciplines.

The long-term goal is to widen the disciplinary scope, create a world-leading centre for the study of ageing and its conditions in an international, contemporary and historical perspective, and to foster a new generation of interdisciplinary researchers in the field. Leading international researchers will be closely tied to the environment, and research infrastructures will be developed to suit the needs of new research perspectives.

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