Åsa Alftberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 4046045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Åsa Alftberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Åsa |
| FAMILY NAME | Alftberg |
| SIGNATURE | ALFTBERG Å |
| AFFILIATIONS | Malmö University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1447-6478 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Learning to be a carer: Family caregiving and emotion management in the context of carer dementia education
Providing care to a family member living with dementia is often emotionally demanding and complex. This article explores emotion management in family caregiving within the framework of municipal support, specifically carer dementia education. It aims to critically examine the role and function of such education and to understand family caregiving as embedded within broader social and organisational support systems. Data were collected through par…
The Making of a Good Carer: Dementia and Family Caregiving in an Era of Refamilization and Responsibilization in the Nordic Context
A growing number of older people with dementia are continuing to live in their own homes for prolonged periods, leading to a growing number of family carers. An aging population and neoliberal austerity politics are contributing to increased family-provided care instead of formal care services. This is particularly noticeable in the Nordic context, where the welfare state has traditionally been based on universalizing policies designed to mitigat…
Aging and street capital: Older men’s status and strategies in street culture
Our findings show how aging reshapes older men's status, relationships, and survival strategies within street culture, revealing both resilience and vulnerability. Aging, in this context, is understood as a social process, emphasizing its significance within street culture
Aging With or Aging Out of Drug Use? Older Adults’ Experiences of Aging with Long-Term Drug Use
Older adults with long-term drug use have long been overlooked in both drug research and aging research. More knowledge is needed about their experiences and needs. Drug use is often seen as a youth phenomenon and as something that with time leads to destructiveness and compulsion. A more nuanced picture of who uses drugs and what the use may look like over time is necessary. There is limited insight into what it means to age with drug use, based…
Managing the Last Move: Older People’s Practical, Relational, and Emotional Work throughout the Transition from Home to a Nursing Home
Moving into a nursing home is a significant transition for older people which can be emotional and stressful. The literature on the decision to move and subsequent residential stress focuses on the time after admission; however, there is less understanding of older people’s management of the process. To fully understand and possibly reduce negative consequences and health‐related risks, the aim of this article is to explore how older people manag…
Empowerment-Based Physical Activity Intervention for People with Advanced Dry Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Mixed-Methods Protocol
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most common cause of incurable visual impairment and impacts daily life. These impacts include loss of social activities, decreased functional independence, and reduced physical activity. This protocol aims to describe a prospective, mixed-methodology for studying a population with AMD before, during, and after an empowerment-based physical activity intervention (EPI). A study framework was also devel…
Medication management in Swedish nursing homes: An ethnographic study of resistance, negotiation and control
Medication management in elderly care has become a considerable part of the care work. It involves health care professionals, such as registered nurses, formally delegating their tasks to non-professionals, typically care workers. The aim of this article is to explore the medication management in nursing homes for older people. The focus lies on how care workers and residents interact in relation to the medication management routines. Participant…
New Objects, Old Age. The Material Culture of Growing Old
Ageing and old age has become a phase of life occupied with new, often medical, devices; for instances blood pressure meters, medication, hearing aids, dentures and walking aids. These material objects are intended for surveillance, as well as to compensate or replace parts of the ageing body and its altered abilities. This paper examines the material culture of growing old, using a phenomenological perspective as a point of departure and compreh…
The Sci-Fi Brain: Narratives in Neuroscience and Popular Culture
The connection between neuroscience, popular media and lay perceptions of the brain involves the framing of complex scientific processes and results through familiar cultural narratives and metaphors. Such narratives are often built on the premise that neuroscience, with the help of powerful new technologies, will finally solve the mysteries of brain and mind, consciousness and morality. At the same time, popular culture-especially the science fi…
Successful Ageing' in Practice: Reflections on Health, Activity and Normality in Old Age in Sweden
This article aims to contribute to the critical examination of the notions of health and activity, and to discuss how these cultural and social constructs have impact on elderly people's lives. An ethnographic perspective gives fruitful inputs to explore how old people deal with the image of old age as one of decay and decline, while they simultaneously relate to the normative idea of so-called successful ageing. The focus is thus on how elderly …
Introduction: Self-care Translated into Practice
No abstract available
Gråtens världar: Perspektiv på mäns tårar
This study, based on interviews with army officers, focuses on crying as an action, creating meanings in our interpretation of the world. The discourse of male crying includes the image of a man wanting to express himself emotionally, but unable to because of the traditional ideal of self-control. Here, I have looked upon crying as a non-reflexive "choice" of action. A man can "choose" to cry or to acknowledge the image of being able to be in con…
Introduction: Self-care Translated into Practice
No abstract available
Successful Ageing' in Practice: Reflections on Health, Activity and Normality in Old Age in Sweden
This article aims to contribute to the critical examination of the notions of health and activity, and to discuss how these cultural and social constructs have impact on elderly people's lives. An ethnographic perspective gives fruitful inputs to explore how old people deal with the image of old age as one of decay and decline, while they simultaneously relate to the normative idea of so-called successful ageing. The focus is thus on how elderly …
The Sci-Fi Brain: Narratives in Neuroscience and Popular Culture
The connection between neuroscience, popular media and lay perceptions of the brain involves the framing of complex scientific processes and results through familiar cultural narratives and metaphors. Such narratives are often built on the premise that neuroscience, with the help of powerful new technologies, will finally solve the mysteries of brain and mind, consciousness and morality. At the same time, popular culture-especially the science fi…
New Objects, Old Age. The Material Culture of Growing Old
Ageing and old age has become a phase of life occupied with new, often medical, devices; for instances blood pressure meters, medication, hearing aids, dentures and walking aids. These material objects are intended for surveillance, as well as to compensate or replace parts of the ageing body and its altered abilities. This paper examines the material culture of growing old, using a phenomenological perspective as a point of departure and compreh…
Gråtens världar: Perspektiv på mäns tårar
This study, based on interviews with army officers, focuses on crying as an action, creating meanings in our interpretation of the world. The discourse of male crying includes the image of a man wanting to express himself emotionally, but unable to because of the traditional ideal of self-control. Here, I have looked upon crying as a non-reflexive "choice" of action. A man can "choose" to cry or to acknowledge the image of being able to be in con…
Successful Ageing' in Practice: Reflections on Health, Activity and Normality in Old Age in Sweden
This article aims to contribute to the critical examination of the notions of health and activity, and to discuss how these cultural and social constructs have impact on elderly people's lives. An ethnographic perspective gives fruitful inputs to explore how old people deal with the image of old age as one of decay and decline, while they simultaneously relate to the normative idea of so-called successful ageing. The focus is thus on how elderly …
Introduction: Self-care Translated into Practice
No abstract available
New Objects, Old Age. The Material Culture of Growing Old
Ageing and old age has become a phase of life occupied with new, often medical, devices; for instances blood pressure meters, medication, hearing aids, dentures and walking aids. These material objects are intended for surveillance, as well as to compensate or replace parts of the ageing body and its altered abilities. This paper examines the material culture of growing old, using a phenomenological perspective as a point of departure and compreh…
The Sci-Fi Brain: Narratives in Neuroscience and Popular Culture
The connection between neuroscience, popular media and lay perceptions of the brain involves the framing of complex scientific processes and results through familiar cultural narratives and metaphors. Such narratives are often built on the premise that neuroscience, with the help of powerful new technologies, will finally solve the mysteries of brain and mind, consciousness and morality. At the same time, popular culture-especially the science fi…
Medication management in Swedish nursing homes: An ethnographic study of resistance, negotiation and control
Medication management in elderly care has become a considerable part of the care work. It involves health care professionals, such as registered nurses, formally delegating their tasks to non-professionals, typically care workers. The aim of this article is to explore the medication management in nursing homes for older people. The focus lies on how care workers and residents interact in relation to the medication management routines. Participant…
Empowerment-Based Physical Activity Intervention for People with Advanced Dry Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Mixed-Methods Protocol
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most common cause of incurable visual impairment and impacts daily life. These impacts include loss of social activities, decreased functional independence, and reduced physical activity. This protocol aims to describe a prospective, mixed-methodology for studying a population with AMD before, during, and after an empowerment-based physical activity intervention (EPI). A study framework was also devel…
Managing the Last Move: Older People’s Practical, Relational, and Emotional Work throughout the Transition from Home to a Nursing Home
Moving into a nursing home is a significant transition for older people which can be emotional and stressful. The literature on the decision to move and subsequent residential stress focuses on the time after admission; however, there is less understanding of older people’s management of the process. To fully understand and possibly reduce negative consequences and health‐related risks, the aim of this article is to explore how older people manag…
Aging and street capital: Older men’s status and strategies in street culture
Our findings show how aging reshapes older men's status, relationships, and survival strategies within street culture, revealing both resilience and vulnerability. Aging, in this context, is understood as a social process, emphasizing its significance within street culture
Aging With or Aging Out of Drug Use? Older Adults’ Experiences of Aging with Long-Term Drug Use
Older adults with long-term drug use have long been overlooked in both drug research and aging research. More knowledge is needed about their experiences and needs. Drug use is often seen as a youth phenomenon and as something that with time leads to destructiveness and compulsion. A more nuanced picture of who uses drugs and what the use may look like over time is necessary. There is limited insight into what it means to age with drug use, based…
Learning to be a carer: Family caregiving and emotion management in the context of carer dementia education
Providing care to a family member living with dementia is often emotionally demanding and complex. This article explores emotion management in family caregiving within the framework of municipal support, specifically carer dementia education. It aims to critically examine the role and function of such education and to understand family caregiving as embedded within broader social and organisational support systems. Data were collected through par…
The Making of a Good Carer: Dementia and Family Caregiving in an Era of Refamilization and Responsibilization in the Nordic Context
A growing number of older people with dementia are continuing to live in their own homes for prolonged periods, leading to a growing number of family carers. An aging population and neoliberal austerity politics are contributing to increased family-provided care instead of formal care services. This is particularly noticeable in the Nordic context, where the welfare state has traditionally been based on universalizing policies designed to mitigat…
Psychology (9 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Gerontology (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works)