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Smart textiles that can monitor the wearer's health and be used in the home have great potential to benefit society. Thi...

Elisabeth Lindberg is a new Professor of Caring Science at the University of Borås. "It's a role I take on with great humility, and I hope and intend to make a ...

Adolescents who sleep too little want involved parents who help them with security, routines, and structure. In her doct...

When Christer Axelsson signed up to become a firefighter, he didn't know that half the job involved driving an ambulance. It turned out to be a happy surprise –...

How are older people to lead a good life replete with wellbeing and be welcomed to a form of care that is characterised by human dignity and human sensitivity? ...

Thinking about his future profession during his school years, it was work as a forester that most appealed to Magnus Andersson Hagiwara. However, his experience...

Anders Jonsson was one of the first officers in Sweden to take paternity leave. Today, he is Professor of Prehospital Emergency Care. But perhaps that never wou...

What makes us want to work past retirement age and how do we achieve a more equal work life? These are questions that Ma...

Maria Jiménez Herrera is a visiting professor at the Faculty of Caring Science, Work Life and Social Welfare and is based at Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Spa...

Kathleen Galvin, Professor of Nursing Practice at the University of Brighton, UK, will be honoured for her efforts to st...

Lindex is investing in Spacerpad, the sustainable menstrual sanitary pad developed by researchers at the Swedish School of Textiles at the University of Borås. This innovation is now leaving the world...

Involve the staff and the older people themselves in developing the care of older people, and support first-line manager...

Fewer men than women choose to study to be nurses, but men often end up in better paid and higher positions in healthcare. Why is this? Lamprini Xiarchi, a doct...

Access to products for menstrual hygiene management is an issue of dignity and health – and is a luxury that up to one billion women lack. On the other hand, di...

It is high time to focus on the oldest members of society – ...