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.
How to measure loneliness among older adults in Denmark – a mixed-method study
- 2013
An examination of concepts of loneliness, and how to determine loneliness in theory and practice. Line Bang-Olsen and Christina Kaarup Rasmussen, Department of Public Health,...
Social life and loneliness of older patients
- 2013
The study showed that many doctors in general practice do not know what to do with loneliness among their older patients. General practitioners can play...
Everyday life at a diversity profile nursing home in Copenhagen
- 2013
A study of the development of the first nursing home in Denmark targeting older immigrants. In 2016, the EGV Foundation and the Copenhagen City Council...
The Multi House for socially vulnerable older persons in Nørrebro, Copenhagen
- 2012
An anthropological study of The Multi House for socially vulnerable older people in Nørrebro, Copenhagen An anthropological study carried out by the EGV Foundation at...
Unnoticed worlds of movement: An ethnographic study of everyday life amongst unconventional older city people
- 2012
Pedagogical anthropologist Jon Dag Rasmussen’s PhD dissertation offers detailed and empirically-based insight into the everyday lives of unconventional older people who move in unnoticed urban...
Concepts and experiences of death among older adults with minority ethnic background
- 2012
A qualitative study and development project about care, ethnicity, religion and life when facing death. From 2009-2012, Mette Raunkiær, associate professor, MSc in Social Science,...
Methods of group treatment of PGD/VSL among elderly bereaved
- 2010
Losing a spouse when you are old can be devastating. A small group of widows and widowers, 10-15% of the total amount of older people...