Projects
Projects FNS
Swiss Centenarian Study (SWISS100): Vulnerability and resilience at age 100
2020 - 2025
Applicant : Jopp, von Gunten, Herrmann, & Cavalli
Other partners : Martin, Krause
SWISS100 is the first nation-wide centenarian study in Switzerland. This sinergia project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, is conducted by aging experts from various Swiss universities (Universities of Lausanne, Geneva, Zurich), centers for higher education (SUPSI) and hospitals (CHUV, HUG). It is conceptualized as an interdisciplinary project, combining approaches from medicine, biology, psychiatry, psychology and sociology to better understand the life at age 100, its challenges, and the determinants of quality of life. SWISS100 includes two parts, a phone study (169 centenarian cases) as well as an in-person study (276 cases). Data are collected from the centenarian and/or a proxy informant (mosty a family member). The assessments include adapted standard questionnaires, open questions, medical and cognitive tests, as well as measurements of biomarkers. To cover all main language regions of Switzerland, study centers are located at University of Lausanne, University of Zurich and SUPSI. For more information see https://wp.unil.ch/swiss100/.
Colour your life: An evidence-based approach to understand how hue, chroma and lightness link to affect in elderly populations
2019 - 2023
Applicant : Christine Mohr, Daniela Jopp, Nele Dael
Aging together: Relationship quality, antecedents and consequences of very old parent and advanced age children dyads
2016 - 2018
Applicant : Daniela S. Jopp, Kathrin Boerner
Other partners : Heining Cham
Others projects
"Old" children of very old parents with dementia: Distinctive challenges and support needs
2018 - 2019
grant-giving organisation : US National Institute of Aging (National Institute of Health) (U.S.A.)
Applicant : Kathrin Boerner
Other partners : Daniela S. Jopp
Aging together: relationship dynamics between the very old and their old children
2017 - 2019
grant-giving organisation : US National Institute of Aging (National Institute of Health) (U.S.A.)
Applicant : Kathrin Boerner
Other partners : Daniela S. Jopp
Reaching very old age together: Study on the nature and the implications of the relationship between a very old parent and their advanced age children
2015 - 2016
grant-giving organisation : Fondation Leenaards (Switzerland)
Applicant : Daniela S. Jopp, Kathrin Boerner, Joelle Darwiche, Dario Spini
Other partners : Heining Cham
