Anna‐Karin Welmer

Karolinska University Hospital — Sweden

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Health disparities and outcomes(46), Frailty in Older Adults(37), Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention(34), Chronic Disease Management Strategies(32), Nutrition and Health in Aging(25)

Publications165 total

Air Pollution Exposure and Muscle Mass and Strength Decline in Older Adults: Results From a Swedish Population–Based Study
Journal of Cachexia Sarcopenia and Muscle·2025Open Access
Older adults’ perspectives on physical activity during hospitalization: a qualitative interview study
BMC Geriatrics·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Associations between device-measured physical activity patterns and 8-year incidence of cardiovascular events in well-functioning older adults: variations by age
European Journal of Preventive Cardiology·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Association of accelerometer-measured physical activity and sedentary behavior with unplanned hospitalization in older adults: a 6-year longitudinal study
GeroScience·2025Open Access
Trajectories of social health, cognitive, and daily functioning in community-dwelling older adults
2025Open Access
Faculty experiences with active student engagement in online doctoral courses during the COVID-19 era: challenges and opportunities—a qualitative study
Frontiers in Education·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Enlarged choroid plexus is linked with poorer physical function in rural older adults: a population-based study
Fluids and Barriers of the CNS·2025Open Access
Health Care Professionals’ Views of Barriers and Facilitators for Implementing a Fall Risk Screening Tool in Clinical and Public Health Settings
Physical Therapy·2025Open Access
Injurious Falls before, during, and after Stroke Diagnosis: A Population-based Study
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Injurious Falls Before, During, and after Depression Diagnosis: Results from Two Longitudinal Population-Based Studies
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
The interplay of cognitive and motor impairment in the occurrence of dementia and presence of brain pathologies: a community‐based cohort study
Alzheimer s & Dementia·2024Open Access
Association Between Accelerometer-Assessed Physical Activity and Cognitive Function in Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Older adults’ experiences of being screened for fall risk in a clinical setting: a focus group study
European Geriatric Medicine·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Antecedents of and experiences with voluntary early exit from working life before the expected retirement age in Sweden
Work·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Atrial fibrillation accelerates functional decline in older adults: a 15-year follow-up population-based study
EP Europace·2024· 8 citedOpen Access
Feasibility of the “Preventing functional decline in acutely hospitalized older patients (PREV_FUNC)” study—A three-armed randomized controlled pilot trial
PLoS ONE·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
How Do Discrepancies between Subjective and Objective Health Predict the Risk of Injurious Falls? A Study of Community-Dwelling Swedish Older Adults
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
Being Active in Working Life at Age 60, 66, and 72
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies·2024Open Access
Social health and subsequent cognitive functioning in people aged 50 years and older: examining the mediating roles of depressive symptoms and inflammatory biomarkers in two European longitudinal studies
The Lancet Healthy Longevity·2024· 19 citedOpen Access
Exploring home rehabilitation therapists’ experiences of supporting older persons to physical exercise after acute hospitalization: a qualitative interview study
European Geriatric Medicine·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Laura Fratiglioni(23), Debora Rizzuto(17), Davide Liborio Vetrano(13), Amaia Calderón‐Larrañaga(12), Alessandra Marengoni(9), Sara Angleman(8), Giola Santoni(8), Chengxuan Qiu(7), Graziano Onder(6), Disa K. Sommerfeld(6), Giulia Grande(6), Erika J. Laukka(5), Weili Xu(5), Anna Marseglia(5), Rui Wang(5), Manuel Montero‐Odasso(4), Mirko Petrović(4), Jesper Ryg(4), Nathalie van der Velde(4), Tahir Masud(4)