Associate professor in gerontology and public health at Gerontology Research Center and Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä and leader of Social gerontology programme at Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki, Public health programme.
I lead a research group in healthy and active ageing from a life course perspective which includes doctoral students, postdocs and project researchers who are based at the Gerontology Research Center and Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, JY or at Folkhälsan Research Center, Helsinki. In addition, we collaborate with research groups at University of Helsinki, Tampere University, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Lund University, Sweden.
My research focuses on healthy and active ageing from a life course perspective. I apply a multidisciplinary approach to the research in gerontology and public health. As healthy and active ageing from a life course perspective is such a broad field of research, it is necessary to study the multiple domains of physical, psychological and social functioning and health using different study designs and methods. Within this area, my research interests also include work ability, trajectories of health, functioning and frailty as well as the role of adaptation to adverse life events and lifestyle factors, mainly physical activity and various social aspects of ageing.
