Education:

2005-2009

PhD. Student at The University of Southern Denmark, Institute of Exercise and Biomechanics– dissertation handed in ultimo 2008

1999-2001

European Master of Science in Occupational Therapy, The Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.

1994-1995

Coach in the fields of education and pedagogic, Danish Institute of Supervision, Pedagogic, Education and Counseling, Snekkersten, Denmark

1986-1989

Occupational Therapist

 Employment:

1996-

Senior Lecturer at the Health Educations, Department of Occupational Therapy, University College Sealand, Naestved, Denmark

2002-2003

Part-time Editor of the electronic monthly journal “Forum for prevention in old age”

1993-1996

Lecturer at the department of rehabilitation for nursing home residentsin Copenhagen, Denmark 

1989-1993

Occupational therapist at the nursing home, De Gamles By, Copenhagen , Denmark 

Projects - selected:

1999-2004

Developing an European e-learning course in health care, ENOTHE (available on CD-rom)

1999-2001

Developing project initiated by the Danish Ministry Danish of Social Affairs: Training-programs for nurses in geriatric hospitals in Tallin, Estonia

2000

Developing an interdisciplinary module in pedagogic in rehabilitation with older clients.

2004-2008

Nordic interdisciplinary scientific multicenter study developed at The

Karolinska Institute, Sweden Stockholm. 

PhD. Project “The effect of individually tailored programs on perceived autonomy in physically frail older nursing home residents”

National interdisciplinary project in palliative care (title not ready)

Lectures given at congresses / seminars - selected:

2008

Key-note speaker at the Assembly for recently diagnosed younger adults with Alzheimer

2007

Oral presentation at the FICCDAT “Growing Older with a Disability”, Toronto, Canada of the concept of autonomy in old age

2006

Poster presentation at the WFOT, Sydney, Australia of the background and method in the PhD project

2002

Poster presentation at the WFOT, Stockholm, Sweden of results from the master thesis master thesis about co-housing for seniors.

2001

Three-week seminar for OT’s and PT’s in four communities in Denmark about COPM. 

2000

Oral presentation at ERGO 2000, Paris, France of the developing project in Estonia about rehabilitation geriatrics.

Publications and articles - selected:

Olsen B, Gammeltoft C, Dahl T, Skou Hansen C & Andresen M,. Apopleksiundersøgelse, APUS [Strokeassessment , APUS]

www.apus.as  6th. Ed, 2008.

Andresen M, et al. At muliggøre aktivitet og deltagelse hos ældre – kommunal rehabilitering [Enabling occupation and participation among elderly people – community rehabilitation].

Chap. 18 in Basisbog i Ergoterapi 2nd. Ed., Munksgaard, Denmark, 2007

Andresen M, Puggaard L. Autonomy among physically frail older people in nursing home settings: a study protocol for an intervention study.

BMC Geriatrics, 2008,8:32, 1-7.

Andresen M, Runge U. Co-housing for seniors – an occupational generative environment.

Scan Jour Occup Ther, 2001.