Healthy Aging
Our research
The program incorporates both quantitative and qualitative data and considers various living environments, giving special emphasis on senior housing. The Healthy Aging group focuses on interdisciplinary research on active and healthy aging and conducts both qualitative and quantitative studies.
The research topics include, for example, social participation and agency, physical and mental functioning, resilience, frailty, and ageing in working life.
A central part of the program is the BoAktiv Study, a project on senior housing as a determinant of healthy and active ageing. The quantitative part of BoAktiv includes a survey that has been carried out in 2018, 2020 and 2024 in Folkhälsan’s senior housing around Swedish-speaking areas in Finland. Altogether over 600 participants have answered the survey on health, functioning, social participation, active aging, and sense of community. The qualitative part of the BoAktiv Study includes in-depth interviews on quality of life in the senior housing context and on what healthy ageing comprise. Results of the study are currently being reported.
The Healthy Aging group collaborates closely within Folkhälsan and with national and foreign universities.
Kort om studien på svenska
Gruppen fokuserar på tvärvetenskaplig forskning om aktivt och hälsosamt åldrande
Contact us
Mikaela von Bonsdorff
Group Leader
+358 40 034 2692