26th Nordic Congress of Gerontology

28/05/2022

KAREN'S SHOES - 26NKG OPENING CEREMONY.
To celebrate Odense’s cultural heritage the SDU dance company presents the performance ‘Karen’s shoes’: a short contemporary dance piece for five dancers on the music of Carl Nielsen ‘Tågen letter’ and ‘Tit er jeg glad’. Inspired by H.C. Andersen famous tale ‘the red shoes’, the five young dancers in 'Karen’s shoes' present a contemporary version of the original story, where pride and disobedience can also become a source of power and resistance.

The performance is choreographed by Dr Sarah Pini in collaboration with the dancers: Siine Barzel, Josephine Gram Nørregaard, Tanja Jensen, Katrine Tofte Hansen and Jingjing Wu.

Sarah Pini is Assistant Professor of dance and performance at IOB, SDU. Sarah trained professionally in ballet and contemporary dance across Europe for over a decade, working and studying with renowned choreographers including William Forsythe, Wayne McGregor, Angelin Preljocaj, Carolyn Carlson; among many others. Sarah’s artistic work received noumerous acknowledgements and has been showcased internationally.

28/05/2022

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OLD AGE IN HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN's FAIRY TALES. 26NKG OPENING CEREMONY, June 8. Hans Christians Andersen turned 70 years old and was until shortly before...

12/05/2022

Fin foromtale af 26NKG. Du kan stadig tilmelde dig

Til den 26. Nordiske Gerontologiske Kongres i Odense den 8. – 10. juni 2022 afspejler programmet den tværfaglighed, som er definerende både for gerontologi og geriatri.

12/04/2022

Susanne Iwarsson, professor i arbetsterapi vid Lunds universitet, tilldelas årets Sohlbergspris för sin förmåga att bygga en stark forskargrupp och forskning som har varit betydelsefull för gerontologiutvecklingen. – Jag känner mig hedrad, men vill betona att detta är ett kvitto på omfatta...

12/04/2022

Nordic gerontological federation tilldelar Karolinska institutets Ida Karlsson årets pris till lovande forskare i gerontologi.

28/03/2022

PRECONDITIONS FOR PROLONGING WORKING LIFE - BETWEEN POLICIES, CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE LIFE COURSE. Last keynote at 26NKG, June 10, is by Kène Henkens:
The ageing of the population has not only made the sustainability of pensions and social security key issues for governments but also influences the ways in which people organize their working lives and firms manage their workforces. In this presentation I will discuss the responses of employers to an ageing workforce, how they affect older workers ability to work till increasing retirement ages and whether longer working lives affect civic engagement.
Kène Henkens is a head of the Theme group on Work & Retirement and is a professor of Ageing, retirement and the Life course at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG-RUG). He also holds a chair in Sociology of Retirement at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). He has received a VIDI grant from the National Science Foundation (NWO) and a VICI grant in 2014. He is associate editor of the new Oxford journal Work, Aging & Retirement. Henkens is member of the Academia Europaea.

24/03/2022

Fysisk aktivitet og sundhed. Keynote 10. jnui ved Mark Tully

WHAT COUNTS MORE FOR OLDER ADULTS: THE HEALTH OR SOCIAL BENEFITS OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY? Keynote by Mark Tully, June 10. Odense, 26NKG. Regular physical...

20/03/2022

FALD. Keynote 9. juni 16.15 v. professor i geriatri Tahir Masud.

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN FALLS ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT. Keynote June 9, 16.15 by Tahir Masud. Falls in older people cause much morbidity and cost to society...

20/03/2022

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM & CALL FOR LATE BREAKING POSTER ABSTRACTS
Preliminary program is now available at 26NKG.DK.
The Late Breaking Poster Abstracts is an opportunity to have your work peer-reviewed by experts in the field and present your most pressing research results. The call is open for the previously announced congress themes: Digitisation and technology - Housing, generations and mobility - Lifestyle, engagement and transition - Education and competences in ageing societies - Morbidity, medical treatment and ageing processes - A good life and a good death. Link for submission.
NEW
Published abstract: if accepted, your abstract will be published together with all other congress abstracts in a conference special issue of Journal of Ageing and Longevity.
Best poster award: the scientific committee of the 26NKG conference will nominate a poster for the best poster award. This will be granted by the Journal of Ageing and Longevity and will be announced at the closing ceremony of the congress.
The poster sessions will take place in the foyer areas of the congress venue Odeon, ensuring maximum exposure of your poster.
Important dates:
Tuesday, March 15 2022: Late Breaking Poster Abstract submission site opens
Tuesday, May 10 2022: Late Breaking Poster Abstract submission site closes
Design tips for your poster and poster presentation:
The display area of the poster boards is 94cm (width) * 135cm (height).
Arrange your poster content as simple and clear as possible for an easier read.
Use large size of type for the title, and smaller for author names and affiliations.
No need to reproduce your abstract in the poster.
Consider using simple and eye-catching illustrations and leave out unnecessary details. If possible, covert tables to graphic displays.
Make conclusions brief and clear.
Remember to add your contact details.
Consider preparing a 2-minute pitch about your project, so you can quickly present the essentials to interested congress participants.
In addition to the traditional physical poster format, we strongly recommend including a QR code on your poster with a link to further details (e.g. the pitch of your poster, video material on vimeo/youtube or the like with a few power point slides with speak or a small recorded presentation in Zoom/Teams, a blog post, the project website etc.). This will allow a maximum outreach for your work.

Find a free QR code generator online (e.g. the generator built into Google Chrome). Paste the URL of the website, where you present further details of your study, into the QR code generator. Download the QR code as an image file, and place the QR image on your poster. Remember to test the QR image.

10/03/2022

Vi præsenterer hver uge en af de otte hovedtalere på den nordiske gerontologiske kongres i Odense, 8. - 10. juni. Denne uge er det Karen Munk, gerontolopsykolog og tidligere formand for Dansk Gerontologisk Selskab.

A CENTURY OF POWERFUL RETIRED PENSIONS - CONTINUITY OR CHANGE? The title of Karen Munk's keynote June 8 at 26th Nordic Gerontological Congress in Odense...

04/03/2022

Endnu en god grund til at glæde sig til den 26. nordiske gerontologiske kongres i Odense, 8.-10. juni 2022:

CHANGE AND CONTINUITY AMONG THE OLDEST IN SOCIETY. Keynote at 26NKG, June 8, by professor of epidemiology Kaare Christensen, University of Southern Denmark...

24/02/2022

Endnu en vigtig keynote på 26NKG: A GOOD ENOUGH LIFE AND DEATH? By Lone Grøn, anthropologist and professor at VIVE, Odense June 9th 22. Professor Grøn's keynote will address how to think of the good life when old age is lived under challenging and uncertain circumstances? Or, the good death when dying alone with a stranger as your final companion?
The presentation draws on ethnographic fieldworks from a Danish dementia ward and from a group of Danish death doulas, who sit by the bedside of dying strangers. The fieldworks were conducted under two comparative and interdisciplinary research projects: Aging as a Human Condition and Ethics after Individualism.
Building on insights from the anthropology of ethics, as well as critical and responsive phenomenology, it will be discussed how we can talk meaningfully about “the good” in situations of sometimes intense suffering - and in ways that acknowledge the potential pain, loss, loneliness and frailty of aging processes.
Lone Grøn is professor MSO at VIVE The Danish Center for Social Science Research. For two decades she has conducted anthropological research on chronic diseases, self-care, obesity, vulnerability in aging, dementia and end of life focusing on everyday life, patient and family perspectives. She is currently PI on “Aging as a Human Condition. Radical Uncertainty and the Search for a Good (Old) Life” and “ALTER-US. Kinship, Cognitive Difference and Care in the 21st Century Danish Welfare State”.
https://26nkg.dk