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Wishes for continued s A small sum to be able to keep the director, coordinator and communicator, that is what the UGOT centres want, now that the six-year central support is coming to an end. – We have good financing for our various projects. However, we cannot pay for the small group that holds the business together with external funds, so we need support there, says Kristina Snuttan Sundell, Director of SWEMARC.
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– IF YOU THINK OF the university as one entity, and not as a collection of small units, research that transcends faculty boundaries is important. And a centre is a very good way to do this, instead of cramming everything into faculties and departments, explains Ingmar Skoog, Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Centre for Ageing and Health (AgeCap). The centre was established in the spring of 2014, a few years before the major UGOT initiative. – At present, we have about thirty faculty-wide projects underway in collaborations between researchers that would never have met if it were not for the centre. But the advantage of the forma-
concerning the situation of the elderly, and have participated in several media to discuss topics such as, ageism, the pension system, and the concept of “capability”. The centre has also been visited by politicians, says Ingmar Skoog.
Ingmar Skoog
tion of a centre is also that we become a body that can cooperate with the rest of society and that we get exposure in the public discourse. Researchers at AgeCap have, among other things, been invited to various committees and bodies on issues
– AMONG THE slightly more unusual forums in which AgeCap has participated is a play and a TV series about four-year-olds. We have also published some excellent science in a number of areas. Among other things, we are in the process of conducting a new H 70 study on health and well-being in people born between 1952–1953. Forte has contributed the lion's share of the exter-
