Activity

The Finnish team member Hanna Varjakoski participated in the annual meeting of the Socio-gerontechnology Network, which was held in Vienna, Austria. The two-day meeting titled as "Shifting Relations: Ageing in a Datafied World" brought together various scholars from social sciences and humanities who are interested in critical studies of ageing and technology. HAIDI project participated with an oral presentation "Cultivating confidence: Seniors 75+ and their interaction with digital health services" – a joint work between the HAIDI postdocs Amalie Søgaard Nielsen, Hanna Varjakoski and Fredrika Thelandersson.

The Finnish team members Hanna Varjakoski and Elisa Tiilikainen participated in the Nordic Congress of Gerontology which was held at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. The three-day congress brought together scholars working with ageing research across disciplines. Results from our HAIDI-project were presented in a poster tour session "Internet and technology use". Out of over 400 posters presented at the congress Hanna and Elisa's poster was awarded with one of four poster prizes in the category of social sciences. Encouraging and motivating recognition for the whole team!

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In January (22-26) Anette Grønning, University of Southern Denmark, visited MKV and members of the HAIDI-team at Lund University, Helena Sandberg and Fredrika Thelandersson.

The purpose of the visit was to collaborate on an upcoming article for the International Journal of Press and Politics.

The article will investigate the news coverage in Denmark, Finland and Sweden on ageing, health, and digitalisation, in approx 15 news outlets during a period of five years (2017-2022).

More info to come!

Helena Sandberg and Fredrika Thelandersson gave a talk to the public about their research project in the lecture "Jag ringer alltid - äldres digitala delaktighet i hälsa" ("I always call - seniors' digital participation in health") at Hässleholm's culture house. The lecture was a part of the municipality's "digital citizen-week" which focuses on digital participation and the public's interaction with digital public services.

Find more information about the lecture in Hässleholm's event calendar. 

The HAIDI-team traveled to Bergen, Norway for the NordMedia Conference, where we presented some early results from the project on the panel “Healthy ageing and digital technologies: promises and pitfalls” as part of the TWG “Media, Communication, and Health.”

The Swedish team discussed the creative ways seniors navigate increased digitalization of public services; the Finnish researchers shared findings from their interviews with urban-dwelling older Finns; and the Danish contingent talked about the role of autonomy in the contact with healthcare services, from a nursing home perspective.

Päivi Rasi-Heikkinen from University of Lapland also joined the panel to present her research on the use of robotics in health care for seniors.

Early spring this year, Anette Grønning and Helena Sandberg were invited to the Baltic Symposium ”Digital Health – interdisciplinary perspectives on trends and attitudes in the Baltic Sea region”, March 16-17 2023. Anette Grønning, Southern University of Odense (SDU) made a talk at the symposium on Digital consultations in Denmark. E-mail to the general practitioner and presented the HAIDI-project to the audience.