Enhancing Quality of Life Post-Stroke (EQLstroke)

Project/agreement No.

Project funding

889 500.00 EUR, incl. 300 000 EUR RSU budget

Project manager

Project realization

01.05.2024. - 30.04.2027.

Aim

The goal is to improve stroke rehabilitation at home for older adults. The focus is on enhancing self-management, an essential component of holistic home-based rehabilitation. EQL addresses a critical and urgent issue: the unmet needs of individuals rehabilitated from a stroke in a home setting.

Description

The project focuses on integrated health services, focusing on processes that link traditional stroke treatment and rehabilitation in the hospital with rehabilitation and care in the home environment and the community. The role of social networks, the physical environment, and collective efficacy enhancing self-management and improving rehabilitation in this vulnerable population is an understudied and critical area of research. The project aims to develop an intervention that connects social support networks and the home environment and supports self-management in older people with stroke.

Work packages:

Government and Management Activities
Generating Knowledge
Codesign the Intervention
Refining and Translation of the Intervention
Dissemination Activities

Project Coordinator

Dalarna University (Falun, Sweeden)

Project partners

University of Groningen (Groningen, the Netherlands)
Riga Stradins University (Riga, Latvia)
Lunds University (Lund, Sweeden)
Maastricht University (Maastricht, the Netherlands)