Projects
The EGV Foundation supports innovative research and social projects. We also provide relevant professionals, voluntary organisations and others who are engaged in working with lonely older people, marginalisation and inequality with new knowledge and inspiration obtained from various projects.
Visit in Mother Tongue
- 2019
Visit in Mother Tongue has been developed by World’s Women Denmark. The organization has multicultural female members from 30 countries, and the women demonstrate a...
Growing – Mature Human Life
- 2019
In the project GROWING – Mature Human Life, students from the Royal Academy work on how to create the lives and framework for life that...
No one Should die Alone
- 2018
An investigation into loneliness, death and moral communities in the Danish Vigil Programme. What are the things that make a moral community, and which part...
Digital Marginalisation Among Vulnerable Senior Citizens
- 2018
Over the past two decades, Denmark as a society has been thoroughly digitized. Even though recent international research shows that senior citizens and vulnerable groups...
Elderlearn – Impaired Elderly Turning Volunteers
- 2018
This is a combined development and research project to expand the scope of Elderlearn and to generate insight into the importance of Elderlearn to elderly...
Loneliness and old age in Danish newspapers
- 2017
Loneliness and old age in Danish newspapers. By Axel Ågren, PhD fellow at Division Ageing and Social Change (ASC), Campus Norrköping, Linköping University. This research project...
Impact of vision and hearing impairment on social life in old age
- 2017
The purpose is to provide in-depth knowledge about the social aspects of vision and hearing impairment in old age through ethnographic methods. Pedagogical anthropologist Jon...
Age-Inclusive Public Space
- 2017
Age-Inclusive Public Space is a vision project about senior citizens and their use of public space. Older people, adults weakened by illnesses, belong to a...
Communities for Older LGBT Citizens
- 2017
Based within Centre for Healthy Aging, this is a research project by anthropologist Simon Meggers Matthiesen, concluded with a report on Sexual Identity Late in Life...
Home Based Palliative Care for Elderly South Asian Immigrants in Denmark
- 2017
Jahan Shapnam is a research assistant with REHPA, The Danish Knowledge Centre for Rehabilitation and Palliative Care. This project consists of two substudies. The purpose...
Insecure Living Conditions Among Older People in Greenland – A Survey on Perception of old age
- 2017
Mette Mørup Schlütter has a degree in anthropology from Aarhus University and specialises in health in the Arctic. Her Ph.D. thesis investigates what it is...
Google is no Friend of Mine
- 2017
As an e-assistant, journalist and writer Marianne Vestergaard Nielsen has encountered older adults who feel lost in the online technology that has swept the country...
Socially vulnerable persons in transition from rehabilitation to permanent housing
- 2016
The project examines what happens in the lives of socially vulnerable persons, including homeless persons, after ending rehabilitation. Arbejde Adlers Hus in Copenhagen offers rehabilitation to...
‘All alone in the world’ – a qualitative study of loneliness among younger adults
- 2014
The report elaborates on qualitative data from Loneliness among younger adults, a collaboration between the EGV Foundation and The Mary Foundation. In 2013, the EGV Foundation carried out...
Tell Stories for Life
- 2014
Research and development project to further develop Tell Stories for Life as a social activity of the EGV Foundation. Tell Stories for Life brings older people...
Living conditions and everyday life of older persons living on state pension
- 2014
25 percent of all Danish pensioners live almost entirely on state pension – meaning that they belong to a very low income group. What are...
Tell Stories for Life
- 2013
Today, the name and concept Tell Stories for Life® belong to the EGV Foundation. Psychologists Andreas Nikolajsen and Morten Hedelund developed the concept while doing their Master’s...
Reading groups with socially vulnerable older persons
- 2013
Research project about reading groups with socially vulnerable older persons. In 2011, The Reading Society in Denmark approached the EGV Foundation with the proposition of...
Change, transition and continuity: Pakistani elderly single women in Denmark
- 2013
Issues and challenges in the lives of Pakistani elderly single women. Research project by associate professor Rubya Mehdi, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University...
Media in the everyday life of nursing home residents
- 2013
Media in the everyday life of nursing home residents’ is part of project “Ageing and old age in the media and elderly people’s media use” which was...