Dr. Jan Tobias Wagner
Type of Scholarship: Early Career
Duration: 1 March 2004 to 28 February 2006
Center: Geriatrie Universität Bern, Spital Bern - Ziegler, Berne/Switzerland
Research Background
Dr. Wagner is a graduate of Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. He began his career as a medical practitioner at Klinikum Fulda, the teaching hospital of the University of Marburg, working under Professor D. Jaspersen in the Department of Internal Medicine. He gained his doctorate under Professor R.L. Krauth-Siegel at the Heidelberg University Biochemistry Center.
Since March 2004, Dr. Wagner has been an Early Career scholarship holder under Professor A. Stuck at Spital Bern-Ziegler. His research interest is the validation of instruments for the assessment of elderly people, with special focus on risk assessment and physical activity evaluation. The target group for this research are people aged over 65 living at home.
As part of the program, Dr. Wagner is completing the inter-university Masters Program in Public Health of the universities of Berne, Basle and Zurich, as well as courses run by the Research and Study Program on Geriatrics at the European Academy for Medicine of Ageing.
Current Research Projects:
Duration: 1 March 2004 to 28 February 2006
Center: Geriatrie Universität Bern, Spital Bern - Ziegler, Berne/Switzerland
Research Background
Dr. Wagner is a graduate of Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. He began his career as a medical practitioner at Klinikum Fulda, the teaching hospital of the University of Marburg, working under Professor D. Jaspersen in the Department of Internal Medicine. He gained his doctorate under Professor R.L. Krauth-Siegel at the Heidelberg University Biochemistry Center.
Since March 2004, Dr. Wagner has been an Early Career scholarship holder under Professor A. Stuck at Spital Bern-Ziegler. His research interest is the validation of instruments for the assessment of elderly people, with special focus on risk assessment and physical activity evaluation. The target group for this research are people aged over 65 living at home.
As part of the program, Dr. Wagner is completing the inter-university Masters Program in Public Health of the universities of Berne, Basle and Zurich, as well as courses run by the Research and Study Program on Geriatrics at the European Academy for Medicine of Ageing.
Current Research Projects:
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Determinants of Future Institutionalization, Mortality and Loss of Functional Independence
The aim of this project is to validate and develop an instrument that estimates individuals’ risk of future hospitalization. A short questionnaire will be developed for use in identifying risk groups with high future resource needs. The project will also investigate the extent to which this questionnaire can be used to evaluate other detrimental developments, such as admission to a nursing home, mortality or loss of independence. -
Patterns of Physical Activity and Factors Influencing Physical Activity in Old Age
This project evaluates an instrument for assessing physical activity in elderly people. It analyzes and compares the activity patterns of different European populations and identifies the factors that can predict changing physical activity behavior.