Two of four nominees for the award Senior of the Year are professors at Sahlgrenska Academy. In the motivation for Ingmar Skoog’s nomination, the editors of the the magazine Senioren state that no one knows as much about the elderly as he does. He is the director of the Center for Aging and Health, AgeCap, which conducts multidisciplinary research for capable ageing. In the nomination of Agnes Wold, she is described as a national corona educator, always providing straight and clear answers. The other two nominees are state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell and journalist Britta Svensson.