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An educational tool for ethical, transparent, and safe activities in adult education, targeting the digital inclusion of older persons in Europe.

The Ageing and Social Change research environment conducts leading-edge research on key social, political and cultural issues of ageing.

"We need to understand why some individuals become lonely and provide them with support at various levels in society before it happens," says Bianca Suanet, professor at LiU who researches an inclusive society for the elderly.

To categorise every person over 60 as someone who neither wants nor can understand new digital technology is discriminatory. This was one of the topics discussed at a doctoral course in Norrköping.

People with dementia still have the ability to learn new things despite their illness. This is the conclusion of a doctoral thesis recently presented at Linköping University.

By 2050, the number of older people diagnosed with dementia in Sweden may have doubled compared to today. Providing care to everyone will be a big challenge. A new research programme will be launched at LiU to find solutions for the future.

Social relations are important for people. But this does not mean that solitude is always harmful. On the contrary, research shows that a small minority of older people are alone and that a considerable proportion of them are happy with being so.

How can participation in late working life be more inclusive and equal? This is studied by researchers in the research programme EIWO. The programme has received SEK 8,7 million from FORTE to continue in phase two.

Healthy and social. This is the image given of older people in the social media from a Swedish municipality. It is a relatively one-sided image and it may reinforce stereotypes, according to a doctoral thesis presented by Wenqian Xu.

A dissertation shows that non-inclusive evaluations of digital technology in healthcare can reinforce digital inequalities. Some groups from the elderly population participate in evaluations of the technology to a lesser extent.