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Welfare, Wellbeing and Demographic Change: Understanding Welfare Models

NCT03348202 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 117

Last updated 2018-08-31

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Summary

The EMMY Project is an interdisciplinary and mixed methods comparative study on impact of welfare systems on mental wellbeing among the oldest old in Finland, Italy, Norway and Spain, including aspects such as equity, social inclusion, empowerment and participation.

The project will delineate the concept of mental wellbeing at old age by qualitative methods, and will dissect the links between welfare systems and mental wellbeing by quantitative methods. It will support exchange of good policies between EU Member States by performing case studies of existing welfare policies and systems in the four participating countries, and it will develop a new research-based tool for assessing the mental wellbeing impact of welfare policies in old people.

The overarching aim of this interdisciplinary, comparative research project is to improve our knowledge and understanding of how different welfare models and related policies, as well as health and social care service approaches, can benefit from adaptation in order to target mental wellbeing in the oldest-old.

The project will support development of social welfare models in order to incorporate a change of focus from mental disorders to mental wellbeing among old people.

This is important, not only because of the ageing of the European population, but also because of increasing pressures on public finances, within and beyond Europe.

Conditions

  • Ageing

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Åbo Akademi University

    collaborator OTHER

  • SINTEF Health Research

    collaborator OTHER

  • Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

    collaborator OTHER

  • Universita di Verona

    collaborator OTHER

  • Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Kristian R Wahlbeck, MD · National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)

Eligibility

Min Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-01-01
Primary Completion
2018-01-01
Completion
2018-01-01

Countries

  • Finland

Study Locations

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