MORGANTI Francesca

Francesca Morganti is Associate professor at the University of Bergamo in the field of General Psychology (M-PSI 01). From 2008 at the same University, she was Researcher in the field of Psychobiology and Physiological Psychology (M/PSI 02).

Actually, she teaches Psychology of Aging at Bachelor degree in Education, Master Degree in Clinical Psychology and Sport Science .

She has been a associete researcher at the IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano in Milan (Ospedale S. Luca) where she has worked on European and national projects in the neuroscience and neurorehabilitation fields (FP5 and FP6 IST/FET area).

Her research interests, confirmed by her numerous international publications (SCOPUS ID 35509559400), are related to the relationship between neurocognitive changes in life span and interactions with everyday contexts (natural and virtual). In particular, she focuses on aging processes and quality of life, using situated and person-centered approaches to promote health and well-being in successful aging and not-neurotypical developmental pathways (e. g. MCI and dementia). As collected in the handbook "Psychology of Aging and Quality of Life. Health, frailty, and dementia edited in 2022 by Carocci.
She is a scientific advisor on the "Dementia Friendly" project (www.unibg.it/demenza), through which she shares the results of her research with schools, public bodies, and local authorities to educate about the inclusion of people with dementia in urban communities and to
support their autonomy in everyday life. In these fields she was also engaged as a principal advisor in the project “ViveDe-Vivere con la Demenza” – Living with Dementia (www.vivede.it), through which she disseminates scientific content on the different forms of dementia and psycho-education projects using experiential technologies (immersive 360° videos) to enable the caregivers of people with dementia to develop an empathetic attitude within the
healthcare setting.