Inga Malmqvist
Professor
Architecture and Civil Engineering
Chalmers University of Technology
Sweden
Biography
Inga Malmqvist is a Professor at Chalmers Architecture and Civil Engineering and vice Director of the Formas supported AIDAH Strong Research Environment 2014-18. Inga is active within research as well as teaching. Her focus is on the situation of aging societies and how to plan good housing for the elderly as much of healthcare work takes place inside private homes. Inga leads an MSB financed research project about injuries in living areas which includes the work of one of the doctoral students who Inga supervises. One doctoral student works with operation environments and two others have done their doctoral research within elderly care and primary care facilities. For the last 10 years Inga has led a design project at masters level about sheltered housing for the elderly.
Research Interest
plan good housing for the elderly as much of healthcare work takes place inside private homes
Publications
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Andersson M, Lindahl G, Malmqvist I. Use and usability of assisted living facilities for the elderly: An observation study in Gothenburg Sweden. Journal of Housing for the Elderly. 2011 Oct 1;25(4):380-400.
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Malmqvist Å, Welander T, Moore E, Ternström A, Molin G, Stenström IM. Ideonella dechloratans gen. nov., sp. nov., a new bacterium capable of growing anaerobically with chlorate as an electron acceptor. Systematic and applied microbiology. 1994 Mar 1;17(1):58-64.
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Elf M, Malmqvist I. An audit of the content and quality in briefs for Swedish healthcare spaces. Journal of Facilities Management. 2009 Jul 10;7(3):198-211.
