2. NOV 2012
The Elderly
Children, Adolescents and Families
The Elderly, Children, Adolescents and Families
Anna Amilon is currently working with analyses on challenges related to the ageing population, including elderly people’s withdrawal from the job market, voluntary work, preferences regarding eldercare and use of welfare technology in eldercare. Her research interests also include socioeconomic effects of social interventions, pension, employment, family policy and equality.
Anna Amilon's core competencies are in quantitative registry and survey analyses. She has many years’ experience with effect measurement and socioeconomic analysis. Moreover, via several research projects and desk studies she has acquired in-depth knowledge of some of the longer term panel investigations carried out by VIVE, including SHILD (Survey of Health, Impairment and Living Conditions in Denmark) and Ældredatabasen (the Elderly Database).
After completing her PhD at Lund University, Sweden, i 2007, Anna Amilon was employed at the former SFI, now VIVE, as a researcher. She was promoted to Senior Researcher in 2010, and in the former SFI she was Head of Programme for the pension area and Head of Research of the former department for Social policy and Welfare. Through the FSE-financed research projects “The effects of child spacing on educational achievements and incomes in adulthood” and ”The effects of a legal reform on divorce probabilities and pension savings”, for instance, she has accumulated knowledge about effect measurement, pension and employment as well as equality effects of interventions. In the ongoing research project ”MATURE – Meeting the Challenges in Population Ageing Through Innovation and Cultural Adaptation of Welfare Society” for Innovationsfonden (Innovation Fund Denmark), Anna Amilon is carrying out research on elderly people’s voluntary work and preferences regarding the elder service of the future. In addition, she has performed research on socioeconomic effects of social interventions, pension, employment and family policy and equality. In 2013, Anna Amilon was appointed Associate Professor at Lund University, Sweden.