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Alzheimer's Association Greater Kentucky and Southern Indiana Chapter
Aging Research Center (ARC)
ARC is a research Center supported by the Swedish Council for Working life and Social Research, FAS and Karolinska Institutet (KI) and Stockholm University (SU).
The primary goals of the KI-SU ARC are to carry out and support high quality research in aging from a medical, psychological and social perspective, and to offer graduate students education and research facilities in a stimulating environment.
In the Geriatric Epidemiology sector the research mainly concerns dementia (identification of risk factors and natural history), mild cognitive impairment, disability, drug use in the elderly and health economy.
In the Psychology sector the research mainly concerns the effects of individual difference variables (such as health and gender) on cognitive functioning, cognitive changes occurring in normal and pathological aging, and the biological basis of these changes.
In the Social Gerontology sector the the primary focus of the work has been to describe diversity among elderly people and to analyze to what extent differences in health, function, mortality and living conditions reflect inequalities related to social class and gender.
The Kungsholmen Project
The Kungsholmen Project is a longitudinal population-based study on ageing and dementia, carried out by the Stockholm Gerontology Research Center in collaboration with the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Epidemiology, Neurotec, Karolinska Institutet, and with the recently formed Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University.
The project, which started in 1987, has gathered a 12-year long database and offers information on aging from a multidisciplinary perspective.
SNAC-K
SNAC-K is conducted by the Stockholm Gerontology Research Center in collaboration with Stockholm University and Karolinska Institutet.
In 1999 the Swedish Ministry for Social Affairs promoted and supported a national project aimed at monitoring and evaluating the care-of-the-elderly system in Sweden. To achieve these aims, four longitudinal individual-based data collection describing the ageing process and encompassing the care system as whole, has been initiated. This project was named The Swedish National study on Ageing and Care (SNAC).
SNAC-K is one of the four subprojects included in SNAC. Ultimate goal of SNACK is to understand the ageing process, and to identify possible preventive strategies to improve health and care in elderly adults.