Multidisciplinary Approach to Capability in Age and Ageing
Hanna Falk Erhag (Redaktør) Ulrika Lagerlöf Nilsson (Redaktør) Therese Rydberg Sterner (Redaktør) Ingmar Skoog (Redaktør)
This open access book provides insight on how to interpret capability in ageing - one's individual ability to perform actions in order to reach goals one has reason to value - from a multidisciplinary approach. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 252
- ISBN
- 9783030780654
- Utgivelsesår
- 2022
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
Om forfatteren
Ulrika Lagerloef Nilsson (PhD, TD) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Historical studies and a senior researcher at Age Cap - Center of Ageing and Health at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. Her research has mainly focused on gender and power in the field of health care professions during the late 19thand 20th century. Her currently research is dealing with age and ageing in a historical perspective, focusing specifically on the development of elderly care.Therese Rydberg Sterner (PhD) is a researcher at Age Cap - Center of Ageing and Health at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. Her work focuses specifically on depression in relation to behavioural and biological risks and protective factors in large population-based samples of older adults.
Ingmar Skoog (MD) is a Professor in Psychiatry and Director of Age Cap - Center of Ageing and Health at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. His research focuses mainly on neuro degenerative disorders in older adults, behavioral risks and protective factors in large population-based samples of older adults that have been followed with nearly identical health examinations for more than 40 years.