Katarina Andersson

Associate professor and senior lecturer in social work. I am leading the research profile Age, Ageing and Social Welfare at the department.

Research qualifications: Docent

Contact

katarina.andersson@umu.se

+46 90 786 64 15

Works as

Associate professor at Department of Social Work

Samhällsvetarhuset, plan 5, Biblioteksgränd 4 Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

Ålderism normaliserar brister i äldreomsorgen

Dagens Samhälle

Johansson, Stina; Elmersjö, Magdalena; Hultqvist, Sara; et al.

collaborative complexity in developing caring living arrangements for ageing people

Ageing in a transforming world

Andersson, Katarina; Högström, Ebba; Nord, Catharina; et al.

Digitaliseringen väcker frågor

Äldre i centrum, Stockhom: Stiftelsen Stockholms läns äldrecentrum 2024, (3) : 48-51

Blom, Björn; Andersson, Katarina; Bergmark, Magnus; et al.

Disembodied care: Articulations of care in municipal policy regarding welfare technologies in eldercare

Nordic Journal of Social Research, Universitetsforlaget 2024, Vol. 15, (1) : 1-14

Samén, Anna; Lindberg, Jens; Andersson, Katarina

Äldre vuxnas perspektiv på välfärdsteknikens påverkan inom äldreomsorgen: individuella förväntningar på självständighet, sociala möten och ensamhet: [Older adults’ perspective on the effects of welfare technology in eldercare: individual expectations on independence, social meetings and loneliness]

Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift, Linköping University Electronic Press 2024, Vol. 31, (1) : 175-192

Samén, Anna; Perlinski, Marek; Andersson, Katarina

Perceptions of intimacy and integrity in formal home care: [Föreställningar om intimitet och integritet i hemtjänst och personlig assistans]

European Journal of Social Work, Taylor & Francis Group 2023, Vol. 26, (5) : 828-839

Ahnlund, Petra; Lövgren, Veronica; Andersson, Katarina; et al.

Riktlinjer för biståndshandläggning: mellan individuella behov och standardiserade insatser

Socialt arbete i äldreomsorg: professionell handläggning i teori och praktik, Malmö: Gleerups Utbildning AB 2023 : 37-53

Andersson, Katarina

Empathetic attuning: 'How would i feel if i had to expose myself all the time?'—strategies for managing personal and intimate care in swedish formal home care

British Journal of Social Work, Oxford University Press 2023, Vol. 53, (2) : 921-938

Andersson, Katarina; Lövgren, Veronica; Ahnlund, Petra; et al.

Nighttime home care in Sweden: "a constant struggle to manage unforeseen events": operations managers' perceptions of organization and provision of care for older people

Health & Social Care in the Community, Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2023, Vol. 2023

Andersson, Katarina; Sjölund, Maria

Care recipients’ management of and approaches to receiving personal and intimate care

Journal of Social Work, Sage Publications 2023, Vol. 23, (6) : 1118-1134

Lövgren, Veronica; Kalman, Hildur; Andersson, Katarina; et al.

Swedish eldercare within home care services at night-time: perceptions and expressions of 'good care' from the perspective of care workers and care unit managers

Nordic Social Work Research, Routledge 2022, Vol. 12, (5) : 640-653

Andersson, Katarina; Sjölund, Maria

Challenges in Swedish elderly home care services at night-time

ESA, 6th midterm conference of the research network on ageing in Europe (RN01) of the european sociological association. Ageing in europé: towards more inclusive societies, research and policy, Vienna: Universität Wien, European Sociological Association, European centre for social welfare policy and research 2022 : 44-44

Andersson, Katarina; Sjölund, Maria

Urvalets betydelse för kvalitativa intervjuer

Att forska i socialt arbete: utmaningar, förhållningssätt och metoder, Lund: Studentlitteratur AB 2021 : 199-212

Andersson, Katarina; Ahnlund, Petra

Assessing individual needs in Swedish elderly home care services: care managers’ argumentation in relation to the needs of migrant customers

Nordic Social Work Research, Routledge 2021, Vol. 11, (4) : 293-305

Andersson, Katarina; Johansson, Stina

Kartläggning av nattlig omsorg inom hemtjänst: Organisering, arbetssituation och målbeskrivningar

Umeå: Umeå universitet 2021

Andersson, Katarina; Sjölund, Maria

Erfarenheter av krishanatering i biståndshandläggningsmöten med äldre personer under covid-19 pandemin: En kvalitativ intervjustudie

Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift, Förbundet för forskning i socialt arbete (FORSA) 2021, Vol. 28, (4) : 455-475

Holmström, Ebba; Andersson, Katarina

Cherry Picking Disability Rights?: Swedish Disability Policy on Employment, Health and Participation

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, VIA University College, Denmark 2020, Vol. 10, (3) : 3-22

Nouf-Latif, Faten; Markström, Urban; Andersson, Katarina

Priorities for quality of care and user-centred care – implications for formal and informal care workers

4th Transforming care conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 24-26, 2019

Andersson, Katarina

Statlig tillsyn

Perspektiv på granskning inom offentlig sektor: med äldreomsorgen som exempel, Malmö: Gleerups Utbildning AB 2019 : 55-70

Andersson, Katarina; Hanberger, Anders; Nygren, Lennart

Welfare Technologies in Care Work

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, Vol. 9, (S5) : 1-12

Kamp, Annette; Obstfelder, Aud; Andersson, Katarina

Encouraging real or make-believe citizen-workers?: Narratives of self-realization versus disabling support-to-work contexts by individuals with High Functioning Autism

Alter;European Journal of Disability Research ;Journal Europeen de Recherche Sur le Handicap, Elsevier 2019, Vol. 13, (2) : 126-140

Nouf-Latif, Faten; Andersson, Katarina; Markström, Urban

Lokala värdighetsgarantier: att skapa(o)lika villkor i äldreomsorgen?

Äldreomsorger i Sverige: lokala variationer och generella trender, Malmö: Gleerups Utbildning AB 2018 : 59-73

Andersson, Katarina

Governance, Accountability, and Organizational Development: Eldercare Unit Managers' and Local Politicians' Experiences of and Responses to State Supervision of Swedish Eldercare

Journal of Aging & Social Policy, Routledge 2018, Vol. 30, (5) : 419-439

Andersson, Katarina; Hanberger, Anders; Nygren, Lennart

Dignity at night in swedish elderly home care services: perspectives and challenges

The 24th Nordic Congress of Gerontology; Lessons of a lifetime, Oslo, Norway, May 2-4, 2018

Andersson, Katarina; Sjölund, Maria

Can state supervision improve eldercare?: An analysis of the soundness of the Swedish supervision model

British Journal of Social Work, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2018, Vol. 48, (2) : 371-389

Hanberger, Anders; Nygren, Lennart; Andersson, Katarina

Conditions for safety visits in nighttime elderly home care services: strategies and differences

The 24th Nordic Congress of Gerontology; Lessons of a lifetime, Oslo, Norge, May 2-4, 2018

Sjölund, Maria; Andersson, Katarina

Biståndshandläggning och mötet med det främmande

Social omsorg i socialt arbete: grunder och fördjupningar, Malmö: Gleerups Utbildning AB 2017 : 75-88

Andersson, Katarina; Johansson, Stina

Strategies to handle the challenges of intimacy in nighttime home care services

European Journal of Social Work, Taylor & Francis 2017, Vol. 20, (2) : 219-230

Andersson, Katarina; Kalman, Hildur

Challenges in Elderly Night-Time Care: Dignity 24 Hours a Day in Swedish Elderly Home Care Services?

Innovation in Aging, Oxford University Press 2017, Vol. 1, (Suppl 1) : 302-302

Andersson, Katarina; Sjölund, Maria

Individualisering

Förändringsperspektiv på äldreomsorg: att leva som andra, Malmö: Gleerups Utbildning AB 2016 : 129-138

Andersson, Katarina

Personlig hygiejne som en intim situation

Det nære sundhedsvæsen: perspektiver på samfundsudvikling og møder mellem mennsker, Københamn: Munksgaard Forlag 2016 : 115-122

Andersson, Katarina

Individualization of needs in Swedish elderly care

6th European Conference for Social Work Research, Lisbon, Portugal, March 30 - April 1, 2016

Andersson, Katarina

Between control and quality improvement: Experiences of and reactions to state inspection in Swedish eldercare practice

IAGG-ER 8th Congress, International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Dublin, Ireland, April 23-26, 2015

Andersson, Katarina; Hanberger, Anders; Nygren, Lennart

The norm of equality in Swedish public elderly care: Care managers’ accounts on equal needs of the elderly

The 12th conference of European Sociological Association, ESA; Differences, Inequalities and Sociological Imagination, August 25-28, Prague, Czech republic

Andersson, Katarina; Johansson, Stina; Feltenius, David

The neoliberal turn and the marketization of care: the transformation of eldercare in Sweden

The European Journal of Women's Studies, Sage Publications 2015, Vol. 22, (3) : 274-287

Andersson, Katarina; Kvist, Elin

Can state supervision improve eldercare? An analysis of the assumptions of the Swedish supervision model

The IAFOR Asian Conference on Aging & Gerontology 2015, Kobe, Japan November 5

Hanberger, Anders; Nygren, Lennart; Andersson, Katarina

Tillsyn och öppna jämförelser: exemplet äldreomsorgen

Utvärderingars värde - värden i utvärderingar: Svenska utvärderingsföreningens nationella utvärderingskonferens, hotell Hilton, Stockholm, 7-9 oktober 2015

Hanberger, Anders; Nygren, Lennart; Andersson, Katarina; et al.

Framing of intimate care in home care services

Active Ageing and Demographic Change: Challenges for social work and social policy, New York: Routledge 2015 : 90-102

Kalman, Hildur; Andersson, Katarina

Framing of Intimate Care in Home Care Services

European Journal of Social Work, Taylor & Francis 2014, Vol. 17, (3) : 402-414

Kalman, Hildur; Andersson, Katarina

Freedom of choice in Swedish public care of the elderly: a care-worker perspective on the challanges of care and care work

Tracing the women-friendly welfare state: gendered politics of everyday life in Sweden, Göteborg: Makadam 2013 : 170-189

Andersson, Katarina

Aging and Dependency in Sweden's Welfare Services

An Insatiable Dialectic: Essays in Critique, Modernity, and Humanism, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2013 : 196-215

Andersson, Katarina

At tilegne sig et nyt sprog

Læring i og af klinisk praksis, København: Nyt Nordisk Forlag Arnold Busck 2013 : 89-103

Andersson, Katarina

Freedom of choice in public eldercare – for whom?: Care worker perspective on the challenges of care work in Sweden

The 11th conference of European Sociological Association, ESA; Crisis, Critique and Change, Turin, Italy, August 28-31, 2013

Andersson, Katarina

Paradoxes of gender in elderly care: The case of men as care workers in Sweden

The 3rd European Conference for Social Work Research, ECSWR, Jyväskylä, Finland, March 20-22, 2013

Andersson, Katarina

Paradoxes of gender in elderly care: the case of men as care workers in Sweden

NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, London, Taylor & Francis, Routledge: 2012, Vol. 30, (3) : 166-181

Andersson, Katarina

Methodological challenges in the implementation and evaluation of social welfare policies

International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Vol. 15, (1) : 69-80

Andersson, Katarina; Kalman, Hildur

Aging and Dependency – from a passive receiver to an active consumer of welfare services: How to claim the human rights of dignity and respect?

The International 2011 Conference on Modernity, Critique and Humanism, Theme: The Question of humanism and ethics in a global context. Los Angeles, USA, February 12-13, 2011

Andersson, Katarina

Valfrihet och mångfald: ett dilemma för hemtjänsten

Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift, Umeå: FORSA 2010, Vol. 17, (3-4) : 308-325

Andersson, Katarina

Röster från hemtjänsten

Omsorg och mångfald, Malmö: Gleerups 2010 : 164-178

Andersson, Katarina

Dilemmas and consequences in public elderly care: gender equality and cultural diversity within a changing practice

The 14th International Research Conference: Dilemmas for Human Research, Luleå, Sweden, September 10-11, 2010

Andersson, Katarina

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