Elisabeth Rydwik's research on the elderly receives a grant from the Kamprad Family Foundation

What was your reaction when you go the news?

”I was surprised, I did not expect that we would receive funding, so it was very exciting,” says Elisabet Rydwik, researcher at the Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, KI and research group leader.

Tell us about the project receiving funding.

”It is an ongoing project that we have received funding to further develop, and it is a research collaboration between KI, Jönköping University, and Luleå University of Technology. Internally at KI, I collaborate with researchers in the Division of Occupational Therapy and the Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, as well as the Unit for Intervention and Implementation Research at IMM in the project. We also have a doctoral student in the project that will have her half-time seminar in September.”

What is the research about?

”The ongoing project is about developing a program theory for how home rehabilitation should be conducted, which we do through literature review, observation of home rehab visits, focus groups with staff, surveys to patients, and review of medical records. Based on this data, we will develop the program theory that will form the basis for an intervention that we will evaluate in a cluster-randomized study, for which we have now received funding from The Kamprad Family Foundation for Entrepreneurship, Research & Charity.”