Project information

Our research activities include:

• Conducting in-depth interviews with stroke survivors, their families, and healthcare professionals to understand their socio-spatial networks and key factors influencing recovery.
• Organizing participatory co-design workshops, bringing together stroke survivors, informal caregivers, and professionals to collaboratively develop an intervention that enhances post-stroke quality of life.

By integrating these insights, we aim to make home-based rehabilitation more effective, responsive, and inclusive, ultimately contributing to better stroke recovery strategies across Europe. We’re looking for stroke survivors (aged 65 and older), their families, and care professionals to take part in this research.

Funding statement

EQL-stroke is an international collaboration between Latvia, the Netherlands, and Sweden, coordinated by Professor Marie Elf at Dalarna University, Sweden. It is funded by the Transforming Health and Care Systems (THCS) program, FORTE (The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare), NWO (The Dutch Research Council), and Latvijas Zinātnes padome (The Latvian Council of Science).