Research infrastructure

Humankind, culture and society

Research infrastructure

Humankind, culture and society

NEAR - National E-Infrastructure for Ageing Research

An infrastructure under construction that aims to promote and facilitate Swedish research into ageing by means of integration of a number of national longitudinal population-based projects on ageing and health, and to enhance the quality and generalisability of research results.

NEAR is a research infrastructure under construction that aims to promote and facilitate Swedish research into ageing by means of integration of a number of national longitudinal population-based projects and databases on ageing and health, to enhance the quality and generalisability of research results and to intensify international collaboration. The purpose of NEAR is to develop a technical platform for handling and coordinating high-quality population-based databases in Sweden in order to give researchers access to the information, and thereby create prerequisites for future high-quality research.

NEAR integrates the projects/databases:

  • Betula (memory changes over time)
  • KP (Kungsholmen Project)
  • SNAC (Swedish National Study on Ageing and Care - Kungsholmen, - Nordanstig, - Blekinge, - Skåne)
  • Sweold (Swedish Panel Study of Living Conditions of the Oldest Old)
  • SALT (Screening Across the Lifespan of Twins)
  • SATSA (Swedish Adoption /Twin Study of Ageing)
  • AGECAP (Centre for Ageing and Health/Gothenburg Population Studies)
  • GENDER (Gender Differences in Health Behaviour and Health among Elderly)
  • SHARE (Survey of Health and Retirement in Europe).

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