Kristín Björnsdóttir
Biographic Data
| ID | 209632 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristín Björnsdóttir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristín |
| FAMILY NAME | Björnsdóttir |
| SIGNATURE | BJÖRNSDÓTTIR K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iceland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7388-3244 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Complicated Interactions in Home Care
In this qualitative ethnographic study, we aimed at increasing understanding of what makes interactions between staff, users, and relatives in home care services complicated, how these interactions are experienced and how home care practice can be developed to better address these interactions. The study was conducted in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, and data were collected from January 2021 to February 2022. In this article we present findi…
What is helpful in everyday living with dementia at home? Learning from families’ diverse scenarios
As the population ages and the prevalence of dementia increases, caring for a relative living at home with dementia has become a reality for many families worldwide. Studies have shown that families are confronted with diverse difficulties as they try to address the challenges involved in providing care. By understanding how they manage daily life, formal service providers become better equipped to meet the diverse needs of these families. Learni…
Lived experiences of people with intellectual disabilities during the Covid-19 pandemic from a crip time perspective
The pandemic disrupted normative time for all and exposed systemic and societal inequalities affecting disabled people. This qualitative study, framed within crip time theory, explores how people with intellectual disabilities experienced the social restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic in Iceland. Conducted between 2021 and 2023, the research involved twenty adults with intellectual disabilities. Findings indicate that the pandemic p…
Then you realise you can actually do it’
This study explored disabled people’s reflections and experiences regarding the challenges they faced when negotiating transitioning to adulthood. It was informed by critical disability studies and youth studies. Four focus group interviews were conducted with altogether 21 participants, 10 men and 11 women with different impairments. A constructivist grounded theory approach was applied to categorise and synthesise data. Participants had faced a…
Risky Obliviousness Within Fragmented Services
Living on an island in a pandemic has its obvious advantages. However, in a globalised economy, border restrictions cannot keep the COVID‐19 virus completely at bay. Despite coordinated efforts at infection control and extensive vaccination, Iceland, a sparsely populated island in the north, was placed among the countries in the highest risk category by the ECDC. In this article, wereport a qualitative study carried out at the peak of the fourth …
Community‐based dementia care re‐defined
Studies of families caring for persons with dementia living at home often reflect feelings of being forgotten and abandoned by the authorities to shoulder the responsibility for care-giving. This has increased interest in how formal services can better support these families. This article analyses how health and social care professionals envision the needs of families of persons with dementia living in the community. It also describes the contrib…
Facilitation of a Person-Centered Approach in Health Assessment of patients with chronic pain
A phenomenologically derived assessment tool, Hermes, was developed in a rehabilitation setting for adopting the central ideals of person-centered care and patient participation into health-assessment practices in nursing. This focused ethnographic study aimed at exploring the feasibility of using Hermes for enabling the application of these ideals into assessment of patients with chronic pain upon admission to a rehabilitation center. Participan…
Nordic perspectives on disability studies in education
Disability studies in education (DSE) is an interdisciplinary field derived from the need to re-conceptualise special education dominated by a medical perspective on disability. In this article we identify what characterises DSE research and consider whether there is a case for arguing for a specific field of DSE in Finland and Iceland. Our analysis is based on a review of 59 studies published by Finnish and Icelandic scholars during the time per…
Integrated Home Care Service
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
I am a college student’ postsecondary education for students with intellectual disabilities
Postsecondary education for students with intellectual disabilities is almost unheard of in the Nordic countries, but several colleges in America, Australia and Europe offer such programmes. These colleges seldom offer inclusive education services; since 2007, however, the University of Iceland has offered a Vocational Diploma in inclusive settings for students with intellectual disabilities. In this article we report on qualitative research carr…
The politics of age and disability in contemporary Spanish film
I agreed to review The Politics of Age and Disability in Contemporary Spanish Film because I believed it was about the relationship between the politics of disability and age(ing), as the title sug
Theorizing accommodation in supportive home care for older people
Stuck in the land of disability? The intersection of learning difficulties, class, gender and religion
This article discusses the discrepancy between formal rights to full social inclusion and the lived experiences of young adults with learning difficulties. It draws on inclusive life history research in Iceland and employs intersectional theory to study the social participation of young adults with learning difficulties. In an attempt to understand the complex political, economic and ideological forces that hinder the actualisation of their forma…
How do prospective parents who decline prenatal screening account for their decision? A qualitative study
Patching Up the Holes
From the state to the family
From the state to the family: reconfiguring the responsibility for long‐term nursing care at home This paper discusses the implications of the shift in the location of the provision of healthcare services from healthcare institutions to the home, which has occurred or is projected to occur in coming years. It is argued that the responsibility for the provision of care and assistance needed by the elderly living at home and people with long‐term c…
Stuck in the land of disability? The intersection of learning difficulties, class, gender and religion
This article discusses the discrepancy between formal rights to full social inclusion and the lived experiences of young adults with learning difficulties. It draws on inclusive life history research in Iceland and employs intersectional theory to study the social participation of young adults with learning difficulties. In an attempt to understand the complex political, economic and ideological forces that hinder the actualisation of their forma…
Patching Up the Holes
Community‐based dementia care re‐defined
Studies of families caring for persons with dementia living at home often reflect feelings of being forgotten and abandoned by the authorities to shoulder the responsibility for care-giving. This has increased interest in how formal services can better support these families. This article analyses how health and social care professionals envision the needs of families of persons with dementia living in the community. It also describes the contrib…
Facilitation of a Person-Centered Approach in Health Assessment of patients with chronic pain
A phenomenologically derived assessment tool, Hermes, was developed in a rehabilitation setting for adopting the central ideals of person-centered care and patient participation into health-assessment practices in nursing. This focused ethnographic study aimed at exploring the feasibility of using Hermes for enabling the application of these ideals into assessment of patients with chronic pain upon admission to a rehabilitation center. Participan…
How do prospective parents who decline prenatal screening account for their decision? A qualitative study
Then you realise you can actually do it’
This study explored disabled people’s reflections and experiences regarding the challenges they faced when negotiating transitioning to adulthood. It was informed by critical disability studies and youth studies. Four focus group interviews were conducted with altogether 21 participants, 10 men and 11 women with different impairments. A constructivist grounded theory approach was applied to categorise and synthesise data. Participants had faced a…
I am a college student’ postsecondary education for students with intellectual disabilities
Postsecondary education for students with intellectual disabilities is almost unheard of in the Nordic countries, but several colleges in America, Australia and Europe offer such programmes. These colleges seldom offer inclusive education services; since 2007, however, the University of Iceland has offered a Vocational Diploma in inclusive settings for students with intellectual disabilities. In this article we report on qualitative research carr…
From the state to the family
From the state to the family: reconfiguring the responsibility for long‐term nursing care at home This paper discusses the implications of the shift in the location of the provision of healthcare services from healthcare institutions to the home, which has occurred or is projected to occur in coming years. It is argued that the responsibility for the provision of care and assistance needed by the elderly living at home and people with long‐term c…
Patching Up the Holes
How do prospective parents who decline prenatal screening account for their decision? A qualitative study
Stuck in the land of disability? The intersection of learning difficulties, class, gender and religion
This article discusses the discrepancy between formal rights to full social inclusion and the lived experiences of young adults with learning difficulties. It draws on inclusive life history research in Iceland and employs intersectional theory to study the social participation of young adults with learning difficulties. In an attempt to understand the complex political, economic and ideological forces that hinder the actualisation of their forma…
Theorizing accommodation in supportive home care for older people
I am a college student’ postsecondary education for students with intellectual disabilities
Postsecondary education for students with intellectual disabilities is almost unheard of in the Nordic countries, but several colleges in America, Australia and Europe offer such programmes. These colleges seldom offer inclusive education services; since 2007, however, the University of Iceland has offered a Vocational Diploma in inclusive settings for students with intellectual disabilities. In this article we report on qualitative research carr…
The politics of age and disability in contemporary Spanish film
I agreed to review The Politics of Age and Disability in Contemporary Spanish Film because I believed it was about the relationship between the politics of disability and age(ing), as the title sug
Integrated Home Care Service
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Nordic perspectives on disability studies in education
Disability studies in education (DSE) is an interdisciplinary field derived from the need to re-conceptualise special education dominated by a medical perspective on disability. In this article we identify what characterises DSE research and consider whether there is a case for arguing for a specific field of DSE in Finland and Iceland. Our analysis is based on a review of 59 studies published by Finnish and Icelandic scholars during the time per…
Facilitation of a Person-Centered Approach in Health Assessment of patients with chronic pain
A phenomenologically derived assessment tool, Hermes, was developed in a rehabilitation setting for adopting the central ideals of person-centered care and patient participation into health-assessment practices in nursing. This focused ethnographic study aimed at exploring the feasibility of using Hermes for enabling the application of these ideals into assessment of patients with chronic pain upon admission to a rehabilitation center. Participan…
Community‐based dementia care re‐defined
Studies of families caring for persons with dementia living at home often reflect feelings of being forgotten and abandoned by the authorities to shoulder the responsibility for care-giving. This has increased interest in how formal services can better support these families. This article analyses how health and social care professionals envision the needs of families of persons with dementia living in the community. It also describes the contrib…
Risky Obliviousness Within Fragmented Services
Living on an island in a pandemic has its obvious advantages. However, in a globalised economy, border restrictions cannot keep the COVID‐19 virus completely at bay. Despite coordinated efforts at infection control and extensive vaccination, Iceland, a sparsely populated island in the north, was placed among the countries in the highest risk category by the ECDC. In this article, wereport a qualitative study carried out at the peak of the fourth …
Then you realise you can actually do it’
This study explored disabled people’s reflections and experiences regarding the challenges they faced when negotiating transitioning to adulthood. It was informed by critical disability studies and youth studies. Four focus group interviews were conducted with altogether 21 participants, 10 men and 11 women with different impairments. A constructivist grounded theory approach was applied to categorise and synthesise data. Participants had faced a…
Lived experiences of people with intellectual disabilities during the Covid-19 pandemic from a crip time perspective
The pandemic disrupted normative time for all and exposed systemic and societal inequalities affecting disabled people. This qualitative study, framed within crip time theory, explores how people with intellectual disabilities experienced the social restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic in Iceland. Conducted between 2021 and 2023, the research involved twenty adults with intellectual disabilities. Findings indicate that the pandemic p…
What is helpful in everyday living with dementia at home? Learning from families’ diverse scenarios
As the population ages and the prevalence of dementia increases, caring for a relative living at home with dementia has become a reality for many families worldwide. Studies have shown that families are confronted with diverse difficulties as they try to address the challenges involved in providing care. By understanding how they manage daily life, formal service providers become better equipped to meet the diverse needs of these families. Learni…
Complicated Interactions in Home Care
In this qualitative ethnographic study, we aimed at increasing understanding of what makes interactions between staff, users, and relatives in home care services complicated, how these interactions are experienced and how home care practice can be developed to better address these interactions. The study was conducted in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, and data were collected from January 2021 to February 2022. In this article we present findi…
Sociology (14 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Nursing (7 works) · Qualitative research (6 works) · Health care (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (4 works)