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Webinar inspired around fifty participants
On 24 April 2024, the research project Accessible nature to promote active and healthy aging held a webinar. Around fifty participants who work...
Presentations from the webinar
Here you can find the project group's presentations (in Swedish) from the webinar on April 24 2024. Feel free to use them to spread the results of our research within your networks.
Meet the Emma Landby project's new research assistant
"My previous research has been based on time-spatial perspectives and the focus has been on social sustainability, equality and accessibility
Save the date!
On April 24, 2024 at 9-12, we will host a webinar on nature in age-friendly communities.
Focus group and walk in wintry Östersund
In mid-November, a final focus group was held within the project at Mötesplatsen Torvalla in Östersund municipality.
How can societal actors collaborate to promote outdoor activities for the elderly?
Kristin Godtman Kling and Rosemarie Ankre gave an appreciated presentation to about sixty listeners at Tankesmedjan för friluftsliv (Think Tank...
Presentations at international research conference - with a ripple effect
In September, the international research conference "The 31st Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research" was held at Mid Sweden...
Rasmus presented to Destination Östersund
Through his education at Mid Sweden University and the program for Tourism and Destination Development, Rasmus Nordmark, student and assistant in...
Lecture for senior universities in Sollefteå
"The visit was a good opportunity to tell the target group about the project's results and discuss and reflect on these," says Kristin.
Rasmus Nordmark – student and employed teaching assistant in Human Geography
Rasmus Nordmark is studying the Tourism and Destination Development Programme at Mid Sweden University. After his first year at the...
Student Simon Strömqvist - scholarship recipient from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography
Tourism student Simon Strömqvist at Mid Sweden University has received a scholarship for field studies in Imperia, Italy, where he will talk...
New survey study on how spending time in nature affects the health of the elderly
Researcher Kristin Godtman Kling is currently conducting a survey with people aged 70 and over in the municipalities of Östersund and Härnösand,...
70-year-olds in focus in new sub-study on how spending time in nature contributes to health and well-being
In September 2022, researcher Rosemarie Ankre conducted a focus group survey with five 70-year-olds in Härnösand municipality, where the aim was...
Interview with Simon Strömqvist
Master's student Simon Strömqvist has investigated age-friendly urban planning with a focus on green areas as inclusive and urban recreational...
Interview with Oscar Dahlqvist
What does information about accessibility aimed at people with disabilities look like in a nature tourism context? Oscar Dahlqvist has...
Nature is important for the health of the elderly
Rosemarie Ankre and student Rasmus Nordmark have now carried out further field observations with older adults - this time in Östersund...
This is what the elderly of Östersund and Härnösand think
The responses from Kristin Godtman Kling's survey have now begun to be analyzed. The results show, among other things, that outdoor activities...
Collaboration and collaboration continue - testing of service is the next step
The project's researchers Kristin Godtman Kling and Magnus Zingmark have continued their collaboration with municipalities, the voluntary sector...