Catharina Nord
Biographic Data
| ID | 914686 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catharina Nord |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catharina |
| FAMILY NAME | Nord |
| SIGNATURE | NORD C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5295-2482 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Care put to the test: Lived space in residential care during the Covid-19 pandemic
This article explores architectural space in residential care in Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic, when residential care was subject to spatial strategies. Community, which is at the heart of the predominant collective care model and underpins the design of architectural space, was identified as a potential source of contagion and thus restricted by spatial measures. Lefebvre’s spatial triad is the theoretical backbone of this study. The resea…
The Residents’ Experience of Social and Spatial Disconnection and Connection in Residential Care During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This qualitative intuitive inquiry into residential care in Sweden discusses effects of social and spatial connections and disconnections during the Covid-19 pandemic. Interviews were carried out with 11 residents living in three residential care homes. Observations and spatial analyses complemented the interviews. The study investigated residents’ experience of the altered use of architectural space during the different phases of the coronavirus…
Family houses – building an intergenerational space in post-apartheid Namibia
This qualitative study presents how intergenerational relationships have spatially shaped the former apartheid township Kuisebmond in Walvis Bay, Namibia. The apartheid housing, which was designed for nuclear families, now accommodates multiple generations. People in different age cohorts are distributed differently in space. People in late later life lived in the former township housing units, whilst people in early later life lived in backyard …
Urbanised Ageing and Strategic Welfare Space in a Namibian Former Township
The number of African older people who live permanently in urban areas is growing. This qualitative ethnographic study explores how older people employ welfare strategies, often involving members of the extended family in mutual care and support. These welfare strategies are emplaced; in this case, in different housing types in a former township in Namibia - Kuisebmond in Walvis Bay. Older people stay in former township houses, in backyard shacks…
Liminal space and the negotiation of care work in extra-care housing
This is a qualitative case study of care work in a liminal space, specifically the case of an extra-care housing residence, which is an innovative housing alternative for elderly people in need of care in Sweden. The study is an exploration of social care workers' perceptions about their workplaces and their understandings of themselves, which are shaped by their embeddedness in architectural space. The extra-care housing residence appeared as a …
Institutional Traits in an African Residence for Older Adults: An Obstacle to Community Care
This ethnographic study explores an old age home in a former township in Walvis Bay, Namibia as an institution to investigate its potential to be interwoven in community care services for older adults. Interviews with older adults from the community revealed highly negative opinions about the residence that equated it to an institution. These opinions are compared with conditions in the OAH and the residents’ views. The old age home was much more…
Translocal Optimisation: Assembling Rural and Urban Spaces for Later Life in Urban Namibia and Uganda
It is often assumed that sub-Saharan African urban migrants return in later life to the villages from which they originated. This article challenges this model of circular migration by exploring the strategies of older adults who live permanently in urban areas. The empirical material comes from ethnographic case studies in two industrial towns formed by the apartheid and colonial housing policies of the 1950s and 1960s: Kuisebmond in Walvis Bay,…
Free choice in residential care for older people — A philosophical reflection
Lived experiences of ageing and later life in older people with intellectual disabilities
The aim of this article is to explore how older people with intellectual disability (ID), who live in group accommodation, describe their lived experience in relation to ageing and later life. The article is based on a study with a phenomenological approach, grounded on the concept of life-world. Individual, qualitative interviews were conducted with 12 people with ID (five men, seven women), between the ages of 48 and 71 (mean=64), who lived in …
A day to be lived. Elderly peoples' possessions for everyday life in assisted living
Design according to the law: Juridical dimensions of architecture for assisted living in Sweden
Architectural space as a moulding factor of care practices and resident privacy in assisted living
This article presents an analysis of privacy, care practices and architectural space in assisted living in Sweden. The presented research is a qualitative case study. Observations and personal interviews with staff as well as residents were the major data collection methods. The analysis revealed the evasiveness of a private–public dichotomy; that is, how privacy appears in public spaces and how private spaces became public under certain conditio…
Individual care and personal space in assisted living in Sweden
A day to be lived. Elderly peoples' possessions for everyday life in assisted living
Translocal Optimisation: Assembling Rural and Urban Spaces for Later Life in Urban Namibia and Uganda
It is often assumed that sub-Saharan African urban migrants return in later life to the villages from which they originated. This article challenges this model of circular migration by exploring the strategies of older adults who live permanently in urban areas. The empirical material comes from ethnographic case studies in two industrial towns formed by the apartheid and colonial housing policies of the 1950s and 1960s: Kuisebmond in Walvis Bay,…
Individual care and personal space in assisted living in Sweden
Lived experiences of ageing and later life in older people with intellectual disabilities
The aim of this article is to explore how older people with intellectual disability (ID), who live in group accommodation, describe their lived experience in relation to ageing and later life. The article is based on a study with a phenomenological approach, grounded on the concept of life-world. Individual, qualitative interviews were conducted with 12 people with ID (five men, seven women), between the ages of 48 and 71 (mean=64), who lived in …
Architectural space as a moulding factor of care practices and resident privacy in assisted living
This article presents an analysis of privacy, care practices and architectural space in assisted living in Sweden. The presented research is a qualitative case study. Observations and personal interviews with staff as well as residents were the major data collection methods. The analysis revealed the evasiveness of a private–public dichotomy; that is, how privacy appears in public spaces and how private spaces became public under certain conditio…
Institutional Traits in an African Residence for Older Adults: An Obstacle to Community Care
This ethnographic study explores an old age home in a former township in Walvis Bay, Namibia as an institution to investigate its potential to be interwoven in community care services for older adults. Interviews with older adults from the community revealed highly negative opinions about the residence that equated it to an institution. These opinions are compared with conditions in the OAH and the residents’ views. The old age home was much more…
Free choice in residential care for older people — A philosophical reflection
Design according to the law: Juridical dimensions of architecture for assisted living in Sweden
Individual care and personal space in assisted living in Sweden
Architectural space as a moulding factor of care practices and resident privacy in assisted living
This article presents an analysis of privacy, care practices and architectural space in assisted living in Sweden. The presented research is a qualitative case study. Observations and personal interviews with staff as well as residents were the major data collection methods. The analysis revealed the evasiveness of a private–public dichotomy; that is, how privacy appears in public spaces and how private spaces became public under certain conditio…
Design according to the law: Juridical dimensions of architecture for assisted living in Sweden
A day to be lived. Elderly peoples' possessions for everyday life in assisted living
Lived experiences of ageing and later life in older people with intellectual disabilities
The aim of this article is to explore how older people with intellectual disability (ID), who live in group accommodation, describe their lived experience in relation to ageing and later life. The article is based on a study with a phenomenological approach, grounded on the concept of life-world. Individual, qualitative interviews were conducted with 12 people with ID (five men, seven women), between the ages of 48 and 71 (mean=64), who lived in …
Free choice in residential care for older people — A philosophical reflection
Translocal Optimisation: Assembling Rural and Urban Spaces for Later Life in Urban Namibia and Uganda
It is often assumed that sub-Saharan African urban migrants return in later life to the villages from which they originated. This article challenges this model of circular migration by exploring the strategies of older adults who live permanently in urban areas. The empirical material comes from ethnographic case studies in two industrial towns formed by the apartheid and colonial housing policies of the 1950s and 1960s: Kuisebmond in Walvis Bay,…
Liminal space and the negotiation of care work in extra-care housing
This is a qualitative case study of care work in a liminal space, specifically the case of an extra-care housing residence, which is an innovative housing alternative for elderly people in need of care in Sweden. The study is an exploration of social care workers' perceptions about their workplaces and their understandings of themselves, which are shaped by their embeddedness in architectural space. The extra-care housing residence appeared as a …
Institutional Traits in an African Residence for Older Adults: An Obstacle to Community Care
This ethnographic study explores an old age home in a former township in Walvis Bay, Namibia as an institution to investigate its potential to be interwoven in community care services for older adults. Interviews with older adults from the community revealed highly negative opinions about the residence that equated it to an institution. These opinions are compared with conditions in the OAH and the residents’ views. The old age home was much more…
Family houses – building an intergenerational space in post-apartheid Namibia
This qualitative study presents how intergenerational relationships have spatially shaped the former apartheid township Kuisebmond in Walvis Bay, Namibia. The apartheid housing, which was designed for nuclear families, now accommodates multiple generations. People in different age cohorts are distributed differently in space. People in late later life lived in the former township housing units, whilst people in early later life lived in backyard …
Urbanised Ageing and Strategic Welfare Space in a Namibian Former Township
The number of African older people who live permanently in urban areas is growing. This qualitative ethnographic study explores how older people employ welfare strategies, often involving members of the extended family in mutual care and support. These welfare strategies are emplaced; in this case, in different housing types in a former township in Namibia - Kuisebmond in Walvis Bay. Older people stay in former township houses, in backyard shacks…
The Residents’ Experience of Social and Spatial Disconnection and Connection in Residential Care During the Covid-19 Pandemic
This qualitative intuitive inquiry into residential care in Sweden discusses effects of social and spatial connections and disconnections during the Covid-19 pandemic. Interviews were carried out with 11 residents living in three residential care homes. Observations and spatial analyses complemented the interviews. The study investigated residents’ experience of the altered use of architectural space during the different phases of the coronavirus…
Care put to the test: Lived space in residential care during the Covid-19 pandemic
This article explores architectural space in residential care in Sweden during the Covid-19 pandemic, when residential care was subject to spatial strategies. Community, which is at the heart of the predominant collective care model and underpins the design of architectural space, was identified as a potential source of contagion and thus restricted by spatial measures. Lefebvre’s spatial triad is the theoretical backbone of this study. The resea…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (5 works) · Assisted living (4 works) · Business (4 works)