Health and Rehabilitation Science research snapshot
Prof Susanne Iwarsson - Occupational Therapy
Susanne.Iwarsson@med.lu.se
My areas of research expertise
- Accessibility to the physical environment
- Environmental gerontology
- Community-based geriatric rehabilitation
- Housing provision for senior citizens
- Collaboration researchers - practitioners
My favoured methodology / methodologies
- A diversity of quantitative and qualitative methodologies from OT, rehabilitation and gerontology. Specific expertise in accessibility and usability assessments, e.g. the Housing Enabler
Areas that I am currently researching
- Outcomes of housing adaptations
- Methodological studies on person-environment-activity transactions
- Aspects of housing as determinants for health among European very old people
- Participation among very old people
- Accessibility problems in public transport for persons with cognitive impairments
Areas of research that are of emerging interest to me
- Environmental aspects of fall prevention
- Intervention studies in community-based geriatric rehabilitation
- Longitudinal studies on home and health among older people
I am interested in collaborating with U21 colleagues in the following areas of research
- See above - both the areas that I am currently researching and areas of emerging interest
Major equipment available to me
- Assessment tools and analysis software for studying housing accessibility
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