My research is mainly about social work with a focus on older people and right now especially about freedom of choice in the eldercare. For the time being, I am also working with a research project about food poverty and food charity with the title: “The indignity of being hungry and the indignity of having to receive food: How do professionals create dignity in the encounter with people in need?”

I defended my PhD-thesis at Lund University in 2014. My dissertation drew attention to considerations at the time when older people’s potential relocation from ordinary housing to a residential home was brought to the fore. I chose to reveal the process in a societal context and at the same time reveal how older people, their family members and care managers experience and describe the process individually and in relation to each other (http://www.lu.se/lup/publication/4387422). This research interest has been further developed over the years. As a senior lecturer at University of Gothenburg, I had the possibility to from a fourth perspective study how hospital nurses handle the process when older people consider relocation to a residential home after hospitalization. Then, as a postdoctoral researcher at Linnaeus University, I revealed from a fifth perspective how care workers in the home-help service handle this process.  

I have also participated in research on multi-professional teams and their possibilities to contribute to a coherent care of older people suffering from multi-morbidity. In another project, I have studied older people’s strategies for creating meaningful social interactions in a context where the scope for social work in eldercare is limited.

I am teach, supervise and examine various courses and at various levels at the School of Social Work, mainly at Campus Helsingborg.