Elderly
Project Title: Quality of Life, Health, Activity, Functioning, Falls, and Injuries Caused by Falls in Elderly People Living at Home.
Objective/Research Question:
1) To chart the quality of life, health, activity, functioning, occurrence of falls and fall-induced injuries amongst elderly people living at home in Norway.
2) To chart the predicators for falls and fall-induced injuries
3) What are the connections between high quality of life, health, activity and functioning?
4) What do the elderly understand by the concept of life quality?
5) Validation of a 5-year life -quality questionnaire
Contact at FHS: Associate Professor PhD Astrid Bergland, Astrid.Bergland@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Senior lecturer Gun-Britt Jarnlo, University of Lund, Professor Torgeir Bruun Wyller, UllevålUniversityHospital.
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Project Title: Functioning and Life Quality for People with Hip Fractures
Objective/Research Question: The main objective is to investigate whether there are differences at the three-monthly check-up with regard to muscle strength, balance, stamina, activity and life quality in patients older than 65 who are operated for neck of the femur and per-trochanteric fractures, in comparison with a healthy control group.
Contact at FHS: Associate Professor PhD Astrid Bergland, Astrid.Bergland@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Gunhild Berdal and Tone Wagle, AkerUniversityHospital
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Project Title: ‘Active and Steady – Even Though You Are Brittle’. Do physical training and fall-prevention interventions result in increased mobility, life quality and fewer falls for clients with osteoporosis?
Objective/Research Question: The main objective with this clinical randomised study is the assessment of the effect of physiotherapy as part of the interdisciplinary interventions made at the osteoporosis outpatients clinic, ØstfoldHospital. Sarpsborg .
Contact at FHS: Associate Professor PhD Astrid Bergland, Astrid.Bergland@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Hilde Thorsen, Rannveig Kåresen, Specialist Centre, ØstfoldHospital. Sarpsborg, Laila Brøndbo, ØstfoldHospital Health Area
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Project Title: ‘Steel Your Legs, Stay Upright’ . Does physical training help prevent falls and promote better balance and life quality in the elderly? (This is a randomised controlled study of treatment.)
Objective/Research Question: The main objective is to develop a proposition for the elderly who have been admitted to geriatric wards at UllevålUniversityHospital. This project will investigate whether physical training has the effect of improving balance, reducing the number of falls, increasing activity in everyday life and giving a better life quality.
Contact at FHS: Associate Professor PhD Astrid Bergland, Astrid.Bergland@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Therese Brovold, Karin Halsa, UllevålUniversityHospital
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Project Title: Berg’s Balance Scale: Reliability Testingof the Norwegian Version
Objective/Research Question: Reliability testing of the Norwegian version in order to assess whether the Norwegian version has a reliability corresponding to results published in international research.
Contact at FHS: Associate Professor PhD Astrid Bergland, Astrid.Bergland@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Karin Halsa and Therese Brovold, UllevålUniversityHospital
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Project Title: ‘Physical Daily Activities for Residents in a Nursing Home Setting’: a Nordic multi-centre study
Objective/Research Question: The main objective of this study is to see whether physical functioning, life quality and mental health are retained or improved in nursing home clients, using an individually adapted intervention for three months.
Contact at FHS: Associate Professor PhD Astrid Bergland, Astrid.Bergland@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Professor Knut Engedal, Head of Department, National Competency Centre for Senile Dementia, Dr. Phil. Jorun Helbostad, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, PhD Kerstin Frandin (Stockholm), PhD Lena Borell (Stockholm), Professor Åke Seiger (Stockholm), PhD Karin Hellstrom (Uppsala), professor Lis Puggard, (Odense), Senior lecturer Terrttu Parkatti (Jyvaskyla)
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Project Title: A Health Service with Memory. An analysis of incident reporting on patients in hospital
Objective/Research Question: What information is conveyed by accident reports on patient falls in hospital with regard to the incidence, patient characteristics, type of activity, conditions in the locality and the personnel’s assessments of the incident?
Contact at FHS: Associate Professor PhD Astrid Bergland, Astrid.Bergland@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Cand. San. Elisabeth Østensvik, Akribe Publishing, Oslo
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Project Title: Rehabilitation and the Elderly: Adapted Physical Activity for the Elderly THENAPA II, EU cooperation on Adapted Physical Activity for the Elderly
Objective/Research Question: "The aim of Thematic Network Projects (TNP) is to define and develop aEuropean dimension within a given academic discipline or other topics of common interest, through co-operation between university faculties or departments and existing academic, and possibly also professional, associations. Such co-operation should lead to curriculum development or related outcome, with a lasting and widespread impact across a range of institutions within or between specific professional fields.
Objectives 1) to analyse existing structures of education, inter-university structures, European Associations on APA, governmental organisations and structures on the one hand, with the national sports federations, rehabilitation centres, special schools and the individual with a disability in general on the other hand, and 2) to set up a network of ‘reflection and action’ towards educational and social integration of persons with a handicap through Adapted Physical Activity in the different partner countries.
The final outcome of the TNP can be diversified into two major realisations:
- the creation of updated and adequate educational programs in APA throughout Europe following the definition of a ‘hard-core’ profile of a specialism in adapted physical education and activity at different educational levels, so that an ‘ideal’ profile of an APA specialist can be defined (formation pillar)
- the creation and implementation of national groups for implementation and integration strategies that might forward solutions to national problems regarding the integration, through physical activity, of disabled persons into society (integration pillar).
Contact at FHS: Associate Professor PhD Astrid Bergland, Astrid.Bergland@hf.hio.no and Assistant Professor Birgitta Langhammer, birgitta.langhammer@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: THENAPA II, herman.vancoppenolle@faber.kuleuven.be
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Project Title: Rehabilitation and the Elderly and Teaching Cooperation in the Nordic Countries with regard to teaching on the elderly/gerontology, Nordplus cooperation
Research Question: The compilation of joint programme for education on the elderly, which will form the foundation of student and teacher exchanges. The teaching is to be undertaken by each of the Nordic countries in turn.
Contact at FHS: Associate Professor PhD Astrid Bergland, Astrid.Bergland@hf.hio.noand Assistant Professor Birgitta Langhammer, birgitta.langhammer@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Karin Hellstrom karin.hellstrom@sjukgym.uu.se UppsalaUniversity; Finn Marlet fma@cvsu.dk Odense universitet; Aune Joutsemo Aune.Joutsemo@stadia.fi Helsingin ammattikorkeakoulu Stadia
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Project Title: Rehabilitation – Stroke Research in Early Phases of Rehabilitation
Objective/Research Question:The study targets stroke patients who are unable to walk independently on admission for rehabilitation. It will determine the efficacy of treadmill walking with partial weight support via an overhead harness on the establishment and quality of independent walking. Furthermore, by reassessing the subjects six months later, it will evaluate the longer-term effect of this physiotherapy intervention.
The experimental hypotheses are:
In patients who have recently suffered a stroke and are unable to walk, ambulatory training using a treadmill with partial weight support via an overhead harness will be more effective than assisted walking on the ground. Benefits include:
-reducing the time taken to achieve independent walking,
-improving the quality of walking and
-producing a better quality of walking 6 months later.
A randomised controlled trial. A prospective multi-centre study, in cooperation with various institutions in Australia and Norway
Contact at FHS: Assistant Professor Birgitta Langhammer,
birgitta.langhammer@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Dr. Louise Ada l.ada@fhs.usyd.edu.au , Physiotherapist Ellen Høyer Ellen.Hoyer@sunnaas.no
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Project Title: Rehabilitation in Stroke Research - the Acute Phase
Objective/Research Question: Our broad aim is to improve outcome for the upper limb after stroke. Specifically, we will develop protocols for physiotherapy intervention to prevent secondary musculoskeletal problems in the upper limb after stroke. In doing so, we will design better supportive devices that will not only reduce the incidence of subluxation, but will also hinder the development of contractions and pain. The proposed study will determine the efficacy of an innovative intervention to prevent subluxation of the affected shoulder (using a modified lapboard while seated and a triangular sling while standing) compared with current physiotherapy intervention (using a hemisling) in patients after stroke. The experimental hypotheses are:
Patients who have recently suffered a stroke and are unable to move their arm, benefit from using a modified lapboard while seated and a triangular sling while standing . This is more effective than using a hemisling in the
-prevention of subluxation of the affected shoulder
-prevention of pain in the affected shoulder,
-maintenance of range of motion in the affected shoulder, and
-improvement of function of the affected upper arm
both after 4 weeks of intervention and after the 6 weeks follow-up.
A randomised controlled trial. A prospective multicentre study, in cooperation with various institutions in Australia and Norway
Contact at FHS: Assistant Professor Birgitta Langhammer,
birgitta.langhammer@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Dr Louise Ada l.ada@fhs.usyd.edu.au , Physiotherapist Audhild Tørstad, Audhild.Torstad@sabhf.no
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Project Title: Rehabilitation: Stroke Research in the Rehabilitation and Post-stroke Phase
Objective/Research Question: What results from regular physical stamina, weight lifting and training balance may be gained by people who have suffered a stroke? Results are measured by recording motoric functioning, mortality and I and P-ADL at 6 and 12 months’ follow-up, and compared with results from people who have had a stroke and received today’s follow-up as practiced in healthcare already.
A blind experimental longitudinal randomised stratified controlled study. Randomisation and stratification using dice to divide the two groups; one control group and a treatment group upon discharge, ‘blinded’ with the envelopes remaining sealed until the last treatment of the last patient is completed two years post-stroke. The treatment group receives training in relation to stamina ( max. VO2), weight lifting and training balance four times per year, 20 times for one hour’s duration, altogether 80 hours. The other group receives functional training: walking, moving from place to place at home, according to individual need, as practiced in social healthcare today. The training begins one month after admission to hospital and continues for one year.
Contact at FHS: Assistant Professor Birgitta Langhammer, birgitta.langhammer@hf.hio.no
Cooperating in the project: Professor Johan Stanghelle Johan.Stanghelle@sunnaas.no , Professor Birgitta Lindmark Birgitta.Lindmark@sjukgym.uu.se , Asker og Bærum hospital, Physiotherpaist Audhild Tørstad audhild.torstad@sabhf.no , Bærum kommune: Head of rehabilitation Physiotherapist Gerd Bjerkaas gerd.bjerkaas@baerum.kommune.no , Head of rehabilitation Physiotherapist Aud Karlsrud Aud.R.Karlsrud@baerum.kommune.no , Head of rehabilitation Occupational Therapist trine.arvidsen@baerum.kommune.no Asker kommune Head of rehabilitation Physiotherapist Gerd Kaasa gerd.kaasa@asker.kommune.no and private practicing physiotherapists i Asker og Bærum.
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Project Title: The Senior Centre as an Arena for Social Contact and Participation
Objective/Research Question: To understand the experience of being there for users at a senior centre. The research questions are:
-How do users contribute to the creation and maintenance of social groups at a senior centre?
-How do users create and maintain a sense of belonging for themselves and others?
- What is the attitude of users as they enter the ‘culture of the elderly’ ?
Contact at FHS: Assistant Professor Anne Lund, Anne.Lund@hf.hio.no
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