Society activities
SYSTED23 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
SYSTED23 was held with titled “community empowerment and respecting diversity”, by Dr. Amarsanaa Gan-Yadam in Ulaanbaatar, August, 2023. SYSTED 23 conference provided all participants with a unique opportunity to network with diverse stakeholders from around the world in order to share and learn from each other in the fields of community empowerment and lifespan development, child study, and disability and elderly care.
We also went to the Rehabilitation Development Centre for Children with Disabilities, and Social Welfare center, which is administered by Mongolian NGOs for the elderly and individuals suffering from disabilities.
Please follow the link provided below. https://www.philanthropy.mn/systed-2023
SYSTED24 in Lund, Sweden
Japanese community care of older people and people with disabilities was the topic today in the SYSTED24 research symposium when professor Tokie Anme, Ph.D., International Community Care and Lifespan Development. Empowerment Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, presented her research.
Professor Anme is the president of the international SYSTED research network with members from Japan, Indonesia, China, Mongolia, Bangladesh, Nepal, Germany, Australia and Sweden.
Assistant Professor Karl Hedman at Jönköping University in Sweden presented his research that he has been doing for thirty years on community care of suicidal people in Stockholm and Jönköping.
Associate Professor Cecilia Henning from the social work department at Jönköping University in Sweden talked about her research on the importance of small talk between people.
These thin ties make people feel less lonely. Research shows that involuntary loneliness is a risk factor for premature death. Cecilia Henning's research focuses on the importance of social networks in the form of everyday, superficial and recurring contacts, the so called thin ties. Cecilia Henning's advice is to greet your neighbors, look people in the eye when you meet them, pay attention to those you meet in your neighborhood, make yourself known, ask questions, encourage contact and talk to older people you meet. Mary McCall presented her volunteer work with caregiving support groups in Iowa.
The SYSTED24 research symposium in Lund was held on March 7-12, 2024.
If you want to know more about this meeting, please click this link: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7171904195686514690/
SYSTED19 in Manheim
SYSTED19 was held with titled “Creating Inclusive Communities - and Daily Life in Old Age”, by Dr. Astrid Hedtke-Becker, and Dr. Uwe Sperling in Manheim, May, 2019.
Also, we had valuable study visits with immigrants, people with disabilities, community residents, and volunteers.
This is a photo with “3000-Trail-Steps” members, who developed their inclusive programs for community empowerment.
SYSTED18 MEETING AT JÖNKÖPING UNIVERSITY IN SWEDEN, APRIL 16-19, 2018
The SYSTED committee decided to broaden the scope from care and support issues related to the elderly and disabled to immigrants in worldwide communities from empowerment and system theory approaches.To ensure relevance for practice, research is conducted in close collaboration with community health and social services.
New members in the SYSTED steering committee are Astrid Hedtke-Becker, Ulrika Börjesson, Uwe Sperling, Amarsanaa Gan-Yadam, Lian Tong, and Bailiang Wu.
A project meeting on older people in Trollhattan, October 17, 2018
A project meeting was on older people at University West in Trollhattan, if you want to know more about this meeting, please click this link: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/conference-older-people-university-west-trollh%C3%A4ttan-karl-hedman/
SYSTED17
SYSTED elderly research meeting in Lund on April 1. From the right: Mary McCall, Holger Stolarz, Cecilia Henning, Tokie Anme and Karl Hedman.
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