Elmar Gräßel

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Elmar Gräßel (* 1959 in Rehau ) is a German doctor and university lecturer. He heads the Center for Medical Services Research (ZMV) and the Medical Psychology and Medical Sociology Department of the Psychiatric and Psychotherapeutic Clinic at the University Hospital Erlangen .

Live and act

Gräßel studied medicine and received his doctorate in 1990 from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg . There he received the license to teach medical psychology in 1998 and medical sociology in 2003 and was appointed adjunct professor in 2006.

He researches the topic of dementia and age-related diseases of today. The focus is on research into resource-conserving therapies - previously known as non-drug-based - therapies for dementia, health services research for chronic diseases (especially dementia, Alzheimer's disease , stroke, geriatric diseases), research on the situation of caregivers and the development and validation of Scales and tests with a medical application background.

Since January 2005, Gräßel has been the medical-scientific study leader of the project "Dementia Care Initiative in General Practice" (IDA) and since April 2008 the scientific study leader of the project "Multimodal activation therapy for dementia patients in nursing homes" within the framework of the lighthouse dementia initiative of the Federal Ministry of Health .

Gräßel is chairman of the Alzheimer Society Middle Franconia eV and the Relatives Advice eV Nuremberg.

Awards

• 2000 and 2002 Research Promotion Prize of the German Alzheimer Society eV
• 2007 teaching award for good teaching in human medicine at the Medical Faculty of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
• 2011 Erlanger Prize for Medicine, Technology and Health in the "Health Promotion and Prevention" category
• 2012 Poster Prize of the Rehabilitation Research Network in Bavaria
• 2012 Poster Prize of the German Society for Neurorehabilitation

Web links

• Literature by and about Elmar Gräßel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Elmar Gräßel on the website of the University Hospital Erlangen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Living well despite Alzheimer's" , Frankenpost , October 14/28, 2011, accessed on October 4, 2013.
2. ↑ Initiative Dementia Care in General Practice (IDA) Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Multimodal activation therapy for people with dementia http://www.maks-aktiv.de/kontakt.html