Interdisciplinary Gerontology Research Group | Faculty of Health Sciences

Interdisciplinary Gerontology Research Group

Aim:
Gerontology is, by its very nature, a complex field, which can be approached from many directions. As such, it allows different fields of research to work together and interdisciplinarity to be asserted.
The Research Group is open to collaboration in the fields of medicine (e.g. geriatrics; diabetology; psychiatry), other sciences (e.g. microbiology), social sciences (e.g. sociology) and other fields of sciences (e.g. philosophy; psychology; legal regulation of elderly care), both in academic and applied research.
 
Members
Head of the Research Group:

• Dr. habil Marianna Móré, scientific advisor (University of Debrecen, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Gerontology) 

 
Members of the research group:

• Dr. Ágnes Bene, senior lecturer (University of Debrecen, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Gerontology)
• Dr. Balázs Lukács, senior lecturer (University of Debrecen, Faculty of Health Sciences)
• Dr. Ágnes Tóth, senior lecturer (University of Debrecen, Faculty of Health Sciences)
• Evelin Papp, PhD student (University of Debrecen, Faculty of Health Sciences)
• Dr. Katalin Papp, college associate professor (University of Debrecen, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Gerontology)
• Dalma Tóth, assistant lecturer (University of Debrecen, Faculty of Health SciencesDepartment of Gerontology)
• Dr. Csaba Sándor Papp, associate professor (University of Debrecen, Faculty of Health Sciences)
• Renáta Koroknai-Horváth, PhD student (University of Debrecen, Faculty of Health Sciences)
• Dr. László Patyán, college associate professor (Sárospataki Református Teológiai Akadémia) - external member

 
Research projects

• Elderly Organisations-Covid Research (2020-2022; EFOP-3.6.1-16-2016-00022 „Debrecen Venture Catapult Program”)
  The study is entitled: individual and community impacts of the COVID 19 outbreak and the restrictive measures taken in relation to the virus in the 60+ population. 
  Aim of the study: to explore the individual and community impacts of the epidemic among the ageing population. Our aim is to define the problems and difficulties of the target group by interviewing key local and community people and to formulate intervention proposals based on these aspects.  
  Methodology: in the 3-year longitudinal study, we interview people who have relevant knowledge of the field every year.

• Comparing the Experiences of People in their 50s and 60s of the Challanges after the Fall of Communism (Visegrad Grant)

• Epigenetic changes during ageing and under the influence of nutrition

• Migration and its impact on the V! countries (Visegrad Grant)