Lone Winther Lietzen




Geriatrician, PhD, Associate Professor, Aarhus University Hospital; Denmark





Lone is a geriatric specialist working at Department of Geriatrics at Aarhus University Hospital as clinician and researcher. Her clinical focus is on older patients with frailty and acute illness and she works both as geriatrician in the Emergency Department and in a well-established Hospital-at-Home setting in collaboration with patients/relatives, GPs, municipality nurses and geriatric hospital staff. Lone has broad research interests ranging from geriatric epidemiology, health care planning including Hospital-at-Home, and onco-geriatrics. Lone is the chair of the steering committee for the Danish Quality Database for Older Adults with Frailty (the DANFRAIL database) and is leading the ongoing development of the database including intersectional and interdisciplinary participation and patient/relative collaboration. The database is planned to collect data from the beginning of 2024.