The purpose of this project is to facilitate knowledge sharing about increasing rehabilitation efforts and methods for old people in the Arctic. It involves partners from Semersooq in Greenland, Torshavn, in the Faroe Islands and, Ålborg in Denmark.

The project will address the challenge of demographic change and support old people towards a more independent and healthy life for a longer period, with the aim to decrease costs for the welfare state in the long term if the approach and models developed prove to be efficient.

Read more about the project (in Danish).

Partners: Jeanette Christophersen Grönvald, Aeldre og Handicapforvaltningen Aalborg Kommune Denmark; Cecilie Victoria Schierbeck Fagchef for Velfaerd og Arbejdsmarked, Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq; Isak Nielsen Kleist, direktör Velfaerd og Arbejdsmarked, Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq; Eyfrid I. Jacobsen, chef Helse- og Omsorgsforvaltningen Torshavnar Kommuna, Faeröerna; Jonver Christiansen, konsulent for kvalitet og udvikling, Helse og Omsorgsforvaltningen, Torshavnar kommuna, Faeröerne.

Applicant: Lise-Lotte Terp, Arctic Consensus, Aalborg, Denmark

Partners (see below the text)

Countries: Denmark, Greenland, Faroe Islands

Project start and expected to be finalized in 2018.

Copyright pictures:
Karen Beate Nøsterud - norden.org