International Homeside meeting in Oslo coming up March 1-3 2021 — Homeside

The Norwegian partner Norwegian Academy of Music (NMH) and its Centre for research in music and health will host the upcoming meeting. The Homeside study has passed the second half of its three-year long period, and it is time for us to reflect upon process and progess. This is one of two meetings during a year when Homeside researchers, music and reading interventionists and participants from five countries can meet to share knowledge and experiences.

Program

The program is extensive. The meetings will start on March 1st with a PhD-day. We are happy that the Head of research at NMH, professor Darla Crispin, will officially open this part of the program and then give the floor to six of the Homeside PhD students and the presentations of their work.

We are also grateful that the NMH rector, Peter Tornquist, will officially open the meeting on Tuesday March 2nd. After that, the Homeside International leader, professor Felicity Baker (who is also professor ll at NMH) presents an overview of the study’s progress and timeline. She will also reflect on COVID-19 and the challenges and new possibilities the virus has created for Homeside, after the project had to change its design from home visits to online implementation. We are also excited that members of the Norwegian PPI (Patient and Public Involvement) will share with us how it is to live with dementia in the family and what it could mean to be part of a project like Homeside.

On March 3rd researcher Trine Holt Edwin at Oslo University Hospital will give a lecture on her exciting and fresh PhD work on dementia. The title is: “Trail-dem: trajectories and risk factors of dementia progression”.

Important to meet

International meetings like these are important, not just to discuss result and effect tendencies. They are also important for us to bond and engage in dialogues on the value of idealistic studies like Homeside, and address their potential influence on one of the biggest public health challenges of our time: dementia.