David Edvardsson

Educational areas:
Care of older people and people with dementias and cognitive impairments, research methods for graduate and postgraduate levels, phenomenology, grounded theory, scale development and psychometric testing, cross-sectional, longitudinal and experimental designs.

Research areas:
Person-centred care, health and quality of life in residential aged care – a national inventory of the content and structure of Swedish residential aged care and its impact on health and quality of life in a randomised sample of older people (n≈5000) and care staff (n≈5000).

Person-centred processes and outcomes from acute hospital care of older people – explorative studies into the characteristics of person-centred hospital care processes for older people with cognitive impairment, how such processes or lack thereof can be measured, and what impact this has on patients and staff in Swedish and Australian samples

The impact of implementing national guidelines for dementia care into aged care practice – experimental and explorative studies of the effects and experiences from implementation of national guidelines for care of people with dementia into residential aged car for older people.

Enriched environments and impacts on health – explorative studies into the symbolisms, meanings and impacts of health care environments on health and wellness of patients, family members and staff in Swedish and Australian hospital environments.

Nurse practitioner models and outcomes ­– explorative studies of the role, function, accessibility and perceived quality with the nurse practitioner function from a patient perspective, and the transferability of the Australian model to Swedish settings.