Project task
Setup and implementation of exergaming regime and assessment battery related to mobility and motor capacity; support in project coordination; training of assessors
Expertise
Intervention studies; technology-driven assessment of mobility and motor behaviour, life-space, and physical capacity in geriatric patients and the general older population
Biography
Biographie
After studying sports science (B.A. and M.A.) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (2006-2012), I started working on my dissertation as part of the project ‘innovAge’ at Bethanien Hospital, Heidelberg in 2013. My focus was on the description and intervention of life-space and mobility in nursing home residents, with the main novelty of applying a wireless sensor network to measure residents’ movement behaviour and perimeter within their residence institution.
After ‘innovAge’, I moved to the Department of Psychological Aging Research at Heidelberg University where we conducted several small-scale projects in the field of ‘wearables’ and physical activity promotion in healthy community-dwelling older adults. After completion of my dissertation in 2017, I joined the Network Aging Research (NAR) at Heidelberg University as study coordinator of the BMBF-funded ‘LiFE-is-LiFE’ project (2017-2020) in which we developed and evaluated a group intervention to prevent falls in community-dwelling older adults. During this phase, I started as a Co-PI in the project ‘PROfit – Prevention – Orientation – Training’, in which we apply a physical exercise scheme across several nursing homes in the Rhein-Neckar-Metropolitan Region.
After this first post-doc phase in Heidelberg, since October 2020 I work at the Clinic of Geriatric Rehabilitation at the Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus Stuttgart, as the coordinator of the clinical validation study in the EU-funded project ‘Mobilise-D’ (volume 50 mio. €) to validate digital mobility outcomes (DMOs) to monitor and predict disease outcomes in four different geriatric cohorts across 17 clinical sites spanning whole Europe.
Relevant publications
Jansen, C.-P., Gottschalk, S., Nerz, C., Labudek, S., Kramer-Gmeiner, F., Klenk, J., Clemson, L., Todd, C., Dams, J., König, H.-H., Becker, C., & Schwenk, M. (2023). Comparison of falls and cost-effectiveness of the group vs. individually delivered Lifestyle-integrated Functional Exercise (LiFE) program: final results from the LiFE-is-LiFE non-inferiority trial. Age and Ageing, 52 (1). doi: 10.1093/ageing/afac331.
Jansen, C.-P., Gordt-Oesterwind, K., & Schwenk, M. (2022). Wearable motion sensors in older adults: on the cutting edge of health and mobility research. Sensors, 22(3), 973. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22030973 (IF: 3.576)
Jansen, C.-P., Klenk, J., Nerz, C., Todd, C., Labudek, S., Kramer, F., Becker, C., & Schwenk, M. (2021). Association between everyday walking activity, objective and perceived risk of falling in older adults. Age and Ageing. doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afab037
Jansen, C.-P., Gross, M., Kramer-Gmeiner, F., Blessing, U., Becker, C., & Schwenk, M.; im Namen der Bundesinitiative Sturzprävention (2021). Physical Group Exercise Recommendations to Prevent Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults. Update of the 2009 Recommendations. Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie.
Jansen, C.-P., Toosizadeh, N., Mohler, M. J., Najafi, B., Wendel, C., & Schwenk, M. (2019). The Association Between Motor Capacity and Mobility Performance: The Moderating Role of Frailty. European Review on Aging and Physical Activity, 16. 10.1186/s11556-019-0223-4.