Elisabet Cedersund
Biographic Data
| ID | 1097052 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elisabet Cedersund |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elisabet |
| FAMILY NAME | Cedersund |
| SIGNATURE | CEDERSUND E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Linköping University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1443-5895 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Moral awareness and different orders of relevance in participatory research with older people and professionals
Limitations are described in the literature in relation to the actual involvement of older people in action research activities. Empirical social research involving any form of data collection has an impact on the people and the setting studied. Researchers should strive to be morally aware of such an impact. The article describes case studies of participatory research in Sweden, Italy and Portugal. It highlights moral issues confronted by resear…
Moral awareness and different orders of relevance in participatory research with older people and professionals (online first)
Limitations are described in the literature in relation to the actual involvement of older people in action research activities. Empirical social research involving any form of data collection has an impact on the people and the setting studied. Researchers should strive to be morally aware of such an impact. The article describes case studies of participatory research in Sweden, Italy and Portugal. It highlights moral issues confronted by resear…
Dying as an issue of public concern
In Sweden, palliative care has, over the past decades, been object to policies and guidelines with focus on how to achieve “good palliative care”. The aim of this study has been to analyse how experts make sense of the development and the current state of palliative care. Departing from this aim, focus has been on identifying how personal experiences of ‘the self’ are intertwined with culturally available meta-level concepts and how experts contr…
Reducing loneliness among older people – who is responsible
In the Swedish news-press, loneliness among older people is presented as a severe problem that needs to be solved. The issue of who is responsible for reducing loneliness and how this responsibility is designated is, however, rarely discussed. In this study, we have analysed how responsibility is designated and constructed in articles from the Swedish news-press. Focus has been on identifying responsibility in discourses proceeding from the conce…
What Promotes and What Limits Physical Activity in Assisted Living Facilities? A Study of the Physical Environment’s Design and Significance
The design of assisted living facilities is an issue that has engaged architects and contractors since they began building the first residential homes. Previous research has shown that participation in everyday activities promotes wellbeing in older people. Many assisted living facilities have locked units that limit the individual's ability to move freely. Our interest is directed towards older people's opportunities to be physically active in a…
You Have to Have a Certain Feeling for This Work”
Increased care worker knowledge has been emphasized for improving quality of care for older persons in organized elder care in Sweden. However, care workers and national policies are not always corresponding, with observations suggesting that care workers emphasize tacit knowledge. The aim of this article is to explore the nature of this kind of knowledge and how it can be identified and described. Field notes from participant observations at two…
Care management in practice
Cedersund E, Olaison A. Care management in practice: on the use of talk and text in gerontological social work Int J Soc Welfare 2010: 19: 339–347 © 2010 The Author(s), Journal compilation © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and International Journal of Social Welfare. This is a study of encounters between social workers and citizens in one type of welfare organisation, the municipal elder care system. The article sheds light on how older people's cl…
Classic ageism” or “brutal economy”? Old age and older people in the Polish media
Assessment for home care
Bureaucratic discourse, conversational space, and the concept of voice
Les AA. s'interessent a l'interaction entre les institutions bureaucratiques hautement specialisees de la societe moderne et les citoyens demandant des services sous le controle de ces institutions. Le but est d'illustrer comment des conversations triviales revelent des caracteristiques essentielles de l'intersubjectivite des conversations dans les societes modernes
Classic ageism” or “brutal economy”? Old age and older people in the Polish media
Assessment for home care
What Promotes and What Limits Physical Activity in Assisted Living Facilities? A Study of the Physical Environment’s Design and Significance
The design of assisted living facilities is an issue that has engaged architects and contractors since they began building the first residential homes. Previous research has shown that participation in everyday activities promotes wellbeing in older people. Many assisted living facilities have locked units that limit the individual's ability to move freely. Our interest is directed towards older people's opportunities to be physically active in a…
Care management in practice
Cedersund E, Olaison A. Care management in practice: on the use of talk and text in gerontological social work Int J Soc Welfare 2010: 19: 339–347 © 2010 The Author(s), Journal compilation © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and International Journal of Social Welfare. This is a study of encounters between social workers and citizens in one type of welfare organisation, the municipal elder care system. The article sheds light on how older people's cl…
Bureaucratic discourse, conversational space, and the concept of voice
Les AA. s'interessent a l'interaction entre les institutions bureaucratiques hautement specialisees de la societe moderne et les citoyens demandant des services sous le controle de ces institutions. Le but est d'illustrer comment des conversations triviales revelent des caracteristiques essentielles de l'intersubjectivite des conversations dans les societes modernes
Reducing loneliness among older people – who is responsible
In the Swedish news-press, loneliness among older people is presented as a severe problem that needs to be solved. The issue of who is responsible for reducing loneliness and how this responsibility is designated is, however, rarely discussed. In this study, we have analysed how responsibility is designated and constructed in articles from the Swedish news-press. Focus has been on identifying responsibility in discourses proceeding from the conce…
Bureaucratic discourse, conversational space, and the concept of voice
Les AA. s'interessent a l'interaction entre les institutions bureaucratiques hautement specialisees de la societe moderne et les citoyens demandant des services sous le controle de ces institutions. Le but est d'illustrer comment des conversations triviales revelent des caracteristiques essentielles de l'intersubjectivite des conversations dans les societes modernes
Assessment for home care
Care management in practice
Cedersund E, Olaison A. Care management in practice: on the use of talk and text in gerontological social work Int J Soc Welfare 2010: 19: 339–347 © 2010 The Author(s), Journal compilation © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and International Journal of Social Welfare. This is a study of encounters between social workers and citizens in one type of welfare organisation, the municipal elder care system. The article sheds light on how older people's cl…
Classic ageism” or “brutal economy”? Old age and older people in the Polish media
You Have to Have a Certain Feeling for This Work”
Increased care worker knowledge has been emphasized for improving quality of care for older persons in organized elder care in Sweden. However, care workers and national policies are not always corresponding, with observations suggesting that care workers emphasize tacit knowledge. The aim of this article is to explore the nature of this kind of knowledge and how it can be identified and described. Field notes from participant observations at two…
Reducing loneliness among older people – who is responsible
In the Swedish news-press, loneliness among older people is presented as a severe problem that needs to be solved. The issue of who is responsible for reducing loneliness and how this responsibility is designated is, however, rarely discussed. In this study, we have analysed how responsibility is designated and constructed in articles from the Swedish news-press. Focus has been on identifying responsibility in discourses proceeding from the conce…
What Promotes and What Limits Physical Activity in Assisted Living Facilities? A Study of the Physical Environment’s Design and Significance
The design of assisted living facilities is an issue that has engaged architects and contractors since they began building the first residential homes. Previous research has shown that participation in everyday activities promotes wellbeing in older people. Many assisted living facilities have locked units that limit the individual's ability to move freely. Our interest is directed towards older people's opportunities to be physically active in a…
Dying as an issue of public concern
In Sweden, palliative care has, over the past decades, been object to policies and guidelines with focus on how to achieve “good palliative care”. The aim of this study has been to analyse how experts make sense of the development and the current state of palliative care. Departing from this aim, focus has been on identifying how personal experiences of ‘the self’ are intertwined with culturally available meta-level concepts and how experts contr…
Moral awareness and different orders of relevance in participatory research with older people and professionals (online first)
Limitations are described in the literature in relation to the actual involvement of older people in action research activities. Empirical social research involving any form of data collection has an impact on the people and the setting studied. Researchers should strive to be morally aware of such an impact. The article describes case studies of participatory research in Sweden, Italy and Portugal. It highlights moral issues confronted by resear…
Moral awareness and different orders of relevance in participatory research with older people and professionals
Limitations are described in the literature in relation to the actual involvement of older people in action research activities. Empirical social research involving any form of data collection has an impact on the people and the setting studied. Researchers should strive to be morally aware of such an impact. The article describes case studies of participatory research in Sweden, Italy and Portugal. It highlights moral issues confronted by resear…
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