Sophie Nadia Gaber awarded Forte grant for dementia sleep intervention
Docent Sophie Nadia Gaber. Photo: Mikael Wallerstedt
Sophie Nadia Gaber, Docent at U-CARE, has been awarded a grant of SEK 4 999 000 from Forte for the project ‘SOVA – Co-designing and feasibility testing an intervention to improve sleep in people living with dementia and their family carers in Sweden’.
The project aims to develop and test a sleep intervention for people living with dementia and their family carers in a Swedish context.
Sophie Nadia Gaber is the principal investigator of the project.
- I am very pleased to receive this grant. Sleep problems are common among people living with dementia and their family carers, yet support options remain limited. We hope the project will contribute to better sleep and improved quality of life for those affected by dementia, says Sophie Nadia Gaber.
The project uses a collaborative approach with people with lived experience of dementia and caregiving, as well as partners from health and social care, and community-based organisations.
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Project members of the SOVA project
Principal investigator: Associate senior lecturer, Docent Sophie Nadia Gaber
Project members:
- Professor Christian Benedict (Uppsala University), Dr Anna Brorsson (Uppsala University), Professor Louise von Essen (Uppsala University), Professor Ingrid Hellström (Marie Cederschiöld University), PhD student Benjamin Olsson (Uppsala University), Professor Penny Rapaport (University College London), Joanne Woodford (Uppsala University)
- A patient advisory group (PAG) including experts with lived experience of dementia and being an informal carer of a person living with dementia
- Representatives from health and social care and community-based organisations
- A national and international scientific advisory board