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CollAge

Collaboratively developing age-friendly communities with municipality eldercare, spatial planning and Senior Citizens’ Councils

Research project CollAGE is a six year research programme in which cross-sector collaboration between three main actors in the municipality is investigated, eldercare, spatial planning, and Senior Citizens’ Councils.

The research aims at exploring how eldercare interventions and services are managed and understood in spatial planning, how eldercare civil servants perceive how the built environment impact on their services and clients, and how older people’s preferences can contribute to improved quality in services and housing provision. The ultimate aim of the programme is to develop a methodological tool – CollAGE – to support, facilitate and structure collaboration between the three actors.

Head of project

Ebba Högström Professor
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+46 90 786 90 11

Project overview

Project period:

2022-01-01 – 2027-12-31

Participating departments and units at Umeå University

Department of Social Work, Faculty of Social Sciences, Umeå School of Architecture

External partners

Tirtha Rasaili, BTH, Catharina Nord, Professor emerita

Research area

Architecture, Social work

External funding

Forte

Project description

CollAge is a six year research programme in which cross-sector collaboration between three main actors in the municipality is investigated, eldercare, spatial planning, and Senior Citizens’ Councils.

The research aims at exploring how eldercare interventions and services are managed and understood in spatial planning, how eldercare civil servants perceive how the built environment impact on their services and clients, and how older people’s preferences can contribute to improved quality in services and housing provision. The ultimate aim of the programme is to develop a methodological tool – CollAge – to support, facilitate and structure collaboration between the three actors.

A multidisciplinary team of scholars in architecture, social work and spatial planning from Umeå University and Blekinge Institute of Technology participate in the programme.

A multidisciplinary and international advisory group of experienced researchers and older people support the research team. Stakeholders – older individuals, organizations and authorities – follow the programme. If you are interested in participating in the research or if you wish to have more information, please contact the project manager, Ebba Högström

The programme is financed by Forte – Swedish Research Council for Health, Working life and Welfare no: 2021-01424.

External funding

Link to website for the funding agency Forte

Publications

Collaborative complexity in developing caring living arrangements for ageing people. Ageing in a transforming world, 2024.
Katarina Andersson, Maria Sjölund, Daniel Movilla Vega, Amanda Nyberg, Tirtha Rasaili, Catharina Nord & Ebba Högström. (Research Poster in DiVA)

Spatial justice in eldercare discourse in Swedish municipal comprehensive plans. 27th Nordic Congress of Gerontology, 2024. Rasaili, Tirtha (Research Poster in DiVA)

Innovation by use: spatial agency and interpretative flexibility in housing for older adults. Architectures of ageing in place, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge 2025: 59-76. Högström, Ebba; Nord, Catharina. (DiVA)

Riktlinjer för biståndshandläggning: mellan individuella behov och standardiserade insatser.
Socialt arbete i äldreomsorg: professionell handläggning i teori och praktik, Malmö: Gleerups Utbildning AB 2023 : 37-53.
Andersson, Katarina (DiVA)

Latest update: 2026-04-29