Poster prize winners

Out of the over 400 poster presenters at the 27th NKG, the following eight stood out for their scientific quality as well as the presentation of their work in terms of design/layout, structure and creativity.

Medical sciences

• Benedicte Huseby Bøhn – Norwegian National Center for Ageing and Health
  Title: Association between malnutrition and delirium among older adults living at home receiving domiciliary care services
• Linda Sandberg– Karolinska Institutet
  Title: Feasibility of the “Preventing functional decline in acutely hospitalized older patients” study – A three-armed randomized controlled pilot trial
• Kristina Dalin Eriksson – Karolinska Institutet
  Title: Older patients’ perspectives on physical activity before and during hospitalization
• Madeleine Åkerman – Karolinska Institutet
  Title: Nursing care interventions among persons with dementia in nursing homes before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Social sciences

• Bettina Meinow – Stockholm Gerontology Research Center
  Title: First-time users of Swedish eldercare – a register study based on SNAC Stockholm Eldercare
• Daniela Koios – Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
  Title: The burden of crhomic pain in community-dwelling older adults with a certified need of care: Are social disparities still relevant in later life?
• Hanna Varjakoski – University of Eastern Finland
  Title: “They think one know how to do this”: 75+ year-old Finns’ experiences of using digital health services
• Jerry Norlin – Dalarna University
  Title: Quantity and quality of social relations and their associations with loneliness in older adults

The poster prize winners will receive 2500 SEK each. Moreover, the recipients in the medical sciences category will receive a free subscription to Aging Clinical and Experimental Research (ACER) and a digital book from Springer.

Congratulations to all on this remarkable accomplishment!