Author: Jolanda Lindenberg

Jolanda Lindenberg is senior researcher at the Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing, a knowledge centre on ageing and vitality. She has been conducting fieldwork in a residential care facility and the surrounding neighborhood in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, since 2011. Her main interest lies in age identification and she enjoys researching this from a linguistic anthropological perspective. Besides her fieldwork, she is involved in various multidisciplinary projects ranging from life satisfaction research to image of older persons. She has co-developed an assessment of wellbeing: 'The Life and Vitality Assesment'. She is currently coordinator of the 'Wellbeing of Seniors' course, developed with support from the European EIT Health Knowledge and Innovation Community.