Aud Obstfelder
Biographic Data
| ID | 171664 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aud Obstfelder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aud |
| FAMILY NAME | Obstfelder |
| SIGNATURE | OBSTFELDER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8263-6560 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Allocation models and prioritising practices in long-term care services in the nordic countries
The Nordic countries are experiencing an increasing demand for long-term care services, primarily due to an ageing population and a declining ratio of working-age individuals to older adults. This development places growing pressure on municipal care services and intensifies challenges related to service allocation and prioritisation. Care managers responsible for service allocation operate at the intersection of quality expectations, legal oblig…
Patient Work in Long-Term Conditions
Long-term conditions are one of the major causes to morbidity and death worldwide. Management of such conditions in healthcare settings has been framed as a challenge for healthcare systems, and people living with long-term conditions often experience fragmented care. Integrated care approaches have been advocated as the solution, but few studies include the work done by patients and its significance for care processes. The present study aimed to…
Enacting citizenship through writing
Citizenship and dementia studies have, during the last 15 years, grown into a substantial body of research recognising the experiences and agentic powers of people living with dementia. This article aims to contribute to and extend this research field. We undertake the aim through a feminist posthumanist non-representational analysis of a diary written by a man with Alzheimer's disease to explore the diary's potential to enact citizenship. The fi…
Interprofessional Education
This study examines how patient care is developed in meetings between students of occupational therapy, physiotherapy, nursing and medicine who are allowed to shape their own interprofessional collaboration. We conduct a thematic interpretative analysis of audio recordings and observations from the meetings and informal talks with the students. The analysis draws on traditions in sociocultural learning theory that deal with interaction on somethi…
We Tie Up the Loose Ends”
During the last decades, the work of homecare nurses has been affected by several changes, including an aging population, the decentralization of health care, nursing recruitment crises and the scarcity of public resources. Few scholars have analyzed how these changes have impacted homecare nursing. In this article, we describe and discuss aspects of homecare nurses’ work, with specific focus on nurses “organising work.” We outline three phenomen…
The Personal Is Political Yet Again
In spite of feminist criticism of the welfare state, Norwegian society is frequently perceived as gender-equal. As a truism of public discourse, gender equality affirms a neoliberal understanding of individuals as able to act independently and to freely choose their course in life. This article disrupts that truism with an analysis of a transitional process that occurred to a seemingly free and gender-equal married woman whose everyday life took …
No place for old women
Western countries currently face pressing demands to transform the labour market participation of older workers, in order to address the pressing economic and social challenges of an ageing population. However, in this article we argue that our understanding of older workers is limited by a dominant discourse that emphasises individuals rather than organisations; and valorises youth as the performative aspiration for all workers, regardless of ag…
Prescribing’ coercive healthcare
There is limited knowledge of how health professionals document decisions to provide coercive medical and dental healthcare for persons with intellectual disabilities. Drawing on sociological perspectives, we analysed 28 Norwegian decision documents to explore how professionals account for coercive healthcare decisions. The professionals presented clear-cut medicalized and morally neutral ‘coercive healthcare cases’ in favour of coercion. They ty…
Parents' Perceptions of Primary Health Care Physiotherapy With Preterm Infants
Having a preterm infant is a life-altering event for parents. The use of interventions intended to support the parents is recommended. In this study, we investigated how parents' perceptions of physiotherapy in primary health care influenced their adaptation to caring for a preterm child. We conducted 17 interviews involving parents of seven infants, at infants' corrected age (CA) 3, 6, and 12 months. The analysis was a systematic text condensati…
Technical Change and the Un/Troubling of Gendered Ageing in Healthcare Work
Whilst recent years have seen increasing pressure to extend the participation of older people in the labour market, it is clear that there remain significant challenges in achieving this and that these take specifically gendered forms. This paper explores if and how these might be shaped in intra‐action with the rapid pace of technological change linked to the pervasive spread of digital technologies in the workplace. We take our theoretical lead…
Getting the Whole Picture
Considerable effort has been invested in telemedicine and e-health, but relatively few applications have endured beyond the research and development phase. Research within different academic disciplines points to the significance of established working and organizational relations within healthcare in shaping the outcome of particular projects, whether successful or otherwise. Even so, the findings appear as disparate and discrete observations wh…
Un/doing Gender with ICT
What might new information and communication technologies (ICTs) at work do for gender? This question is explored here through an empirical study that traces the introduction of one ICT application—an electronic patient record (EPR)—into nursing and medical work in a University hospital in Norway. Health care work is well documented as a highly gendered field, where normalizing gender practices have dominated. The aim of this article is to explor…
Changing the record
Electronic patient record systems promise to optimise the delivery of health care. However, changing the record can disrupt established health-care work and organisation, producing less than optimum outcomes. Changing the record may not only change what health-care professionals do but may also change their understandings of work and self
Beyond implementation and resistance
New information and communication technologies (ICTs) offer great promise for the organisation of healthcare. Despite difficulties in implementation, commitment to the use of ICT in healthcare policy remains strong. Using examples from Norway, this article argues that this has set in motion changes beyond concerns about implementation and resistance, tied to an emergent mode of policy delivery dependent on private sector contractors and ICT exper…
Changing the record
Electronic patient record systems promise to optimise the delivery of health care. However, changing the record can disrupt established health-care work and organisation, producing less than optimum outcomes. Changing the record may not only change what health-care professionals do but may also change their understandings of work and self
Technical Change and the Un/Troubling of Gendered Ageing in Healthcare Work
Whilst recent years have seen increasing pressure to extend the participation of older people in the labour market, it is clear that there remain significant challenges in achieving this and that these take specifically gendered forms. This paper explores if and how these might be shaped in intra‐action with the rapid pace of technological change linked to the pervasive spread of digital technologies in the workplace. We take our theoretical lead…
Beyond implementation and resistance
New information and communication technologies (ICTs) offer great promise for the organisation of healthcare. Despite difficulties in implementation, commitment to the use of ICT in healthcare policy remains strong. Using examples from Norway, this article argues that this has set in motion changes beyond concerns about implementation and resistance, tied to an emergent mode of policy delivery dependent on private sector contractors and ICT exper…
The Personal Is Political Yet Again
In spite of feminist criticism of the welfare state, Norwegian society is frequently perceived as gender-equal. As a truism of public discourse, gender equality affirms a neoliberal understanding of individuals as able to act independently and to freely choose their course in life. This article disrupts that truism with an analysis of a transitional process that occurred to a seemingly free and gender-equal married woman whose everyday life took …
No place for old women
Western countries currently face pressing demands to transform the labour market participation of older workers, in order to address the pressing economic and social challenges of an ageing population. However, in this article we argue that our understanding of older workers is limited by a dominant discourse that emphasises individuals rather than organisations; and valorises youth as the performative aspiration for all workers, regardless of ag…
Un/doing Gender with ICT
What might new information and communication technologies (ICTs) at work do for gender? This question is explored here through an empirical study that traces the introduction of one ICT application—an electronic patient record (EPR)—into nursing and medical work in a University hospital in Norway. Health care work is well documented as a highly gendered field, where normalizing gender practices have dominated. The aim of this article is to explor…
Beyond implementation and resistance
New information and communication technologies (ICTs) offer great promise for the organisation of healthcare. Despite difficulties in implementation, commitment to the use of ICT in healthcare policy remains strong. Using examples from Norway, this article argues that this has set in motion changes beyond concerns about implementation and resistance, tied to an emergent mode of policy delivery dependent on private sector contractors and ICT exper…
Getting the Whole Picture
Considerable effort has been invested in telemedicine and e-health, but relatively few applications have endured beyond the research and development phase. Research within different academic disciplines points to the significance of established working and organizational relations within healthcare in shaping the outcome of particular projects, whether successful or otherwise. Even so, the findings appear as disparate and discrete observations wh…
Un/doing Gender with ICT
What might new information and communication technologies (ICTs) at work do for gender? This question is explored here through an empirical study that traces the introduction of one ICT application—an electronic patient record (EPR)—into nursing and medical work in a University hospital in Norway. Health care work is well documented as a highly gendered field, where normalizing gender practices have dominated. The aim of this article is to explor…
Changing the record
Electronic patient record systems promise to optimise the delivery of health care. However, changing the record can disrupt established health-care work and organisation, producing less than optimum outcomes. Changing the record may not only change what health-care professionals do but may also change their understandings of work and self
Technical Change and the Un/Troubling of Gendered Ageing in Healthcare Work
Whilst recent years have seen increasing pressure to extend the participation of older people in the labour market, it is clear that there remain significant challenges in achieving this and that these take specifically gendered forms. This paper explores if and how these might be shaped in intra‐action with the rapid pace of technological change linked to the pervasive spread of digital technologies in the workplace. We take our theoretical lead…
Prescribing’ coercive healthcare
There is limited knowledge of how health professionals document decisions to provide coercive medical and dental healthcare for persons with intellectual disabilities. Drawing on sociological perspectives, we analysed 28 Norwegian decision documents to explore how professionals account for coercive healthcare decisions. The professionals presented clear-cut medicalized and morally neutral ‘coercive healthcare cases’ in favour of coercion. They ty…
Parents' Perceptions of Primary Health Care Physiotherapy With Preterm Infants
Having a preterm infant is a life-altering event for parents. The use of interventions intended to support the parents is recommended. In this study, we investigated how parents' perceptions of physiotherapy in primary health care influenced their adaptation to caring for a preterm child. We conducted 17 interviews involving parents of seven infants, at infants' corrected age (CA) 3, 6, and 12 months. The analysis was a systematic text condensati…
No place for old women
Western countries currently face pressing demands to transform the labour market participation of older workers, in order to address the pressing economic and social challenges of an ageing population. However, in this article we argue that our understanding of older workers is limited by a dominant discourse that emphasises individuals rather than organisations; and valorises youth as the performative aspiration for all workers, regardless of ag…
We Tie Up the Loose Ends”
During the last decades, the work of homecare nurses has been affected by several changes, including an aging population, the decentralization of health care, nursing recruitment crises and the scarcity of public resources. Few scholars have analyzed how these changes have impacted homecare nursing. In this article, we describe and discuss aspects of homecare nurses’ work, with specific focus on nurses “organising work.” We outline three phenomen…
The Personal Is Political Yet Again
In spite of feminist criticism of the welfare state, Norwegian society is frequently perceived as gender-equal. As a truism of public discourse, gender equality affirms a neoliberal understanding of individuals as able to act independently and to freely choose their course in life. This article disrupts that truism with an analysis of a transitional process that occurred to a seemingly free and gender-equal married woman whose everyday life took …
Interprofessional Education
This study examines how patient care is developed in meetings between students of occupational therapy, physiotherapy, nursing and medicine who are allowed to shape their own interprofessional collaboration. We conduct a thematic interpretative analysis of audio recordings and observations from the meetings and informal talks with the students. The analysis draws on traditions in sociocultural learning theory that deal with interaction on somethi…
Enacting citizenship through writing
Citizenship and dementia studies have, during the last 15 years, grown into a substantial body of research recognising the experiences and agentic powers of people living with dementia. This article aims to contribute to and extend this research field. We undertake the aim through a feminist posthumanist non-representational analysis of a diary written by a man with Alzheimer's disease to explore the diary's potential to enact citizenship. The fi…
Allocation models and prioritising practices in long-term care services in the nordic countries
The Nordic countries are experiencing an increasing demand for long-term care services, primarily due to an ageing population and a declining ratio of working-age individuals to older adults. This development places growing pressure on municipal care services and intensifies challenges related to service allocation and prioritisation. Care managers responsible for service allocation operate at the intersection of quality expectations, legal oblig…
Patient Work in Long-Term Conditions
Long-term conditions are one of the major causes to morbidity and death worldwide. Management of such conditions in healthcare settings has been framed as a challenge for healthcare systems, and people living with long-term conditions often experience fragmented care. Integrated care approaches have been advocated as the solution, but few studies include the work done by patients and its significance for care processes. The present study aimed to…
Health care (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)