Our mission is to:
- support older persons in promoting and sustaining health,
- support families (caregivers) to promote and sustain family health and well-being,
- support health and social care professionals and facilitate sustainable development within care organizations,
- generate knowledge and evidence for policy making and practice regarding care of older persons, family caregiving and family health.
Core values of the group include having global as well as local perspective, inter-professionalism, cross-disciplinary with special attention to sustainability and equity with a futuristic outlook.
Some of the research topics addressed by the group are family caregiving, ageing in the community, family participation in patient care, digital health interventions, solutions, health promotion, quality care (Swedish: god vård), family centered care, dignity, empathy/compassion, social inclusion.
Research focus
The focus of the research group is to address multidimensional challenges of ageing globally, including support to family caregivers, their health and support using digital health interventions solutions. Use of digital health interventions in community settings, e.g., health and social care services for older persons in primary care setting is a major research focus of the group.
- Ageing and family caregiving: Global population is ageing as never before. Human ageing is complex with multidimensional health challenges of older persons. Organisation of primary health care is set up at different levels in Sweden, such as the county and municipality level, to meet the needs of older persons in the community. Social support including care by informal or family caregivers is a crucial and integral component of care of older persons in a society.
- Digital health interventions in community care: Given the rapidly increasing digital literacy in Sweden and globally, digital health interventions offer a practical platform for health care professionals, by using electronic processes and communication, in providing timely support to populations across the life span including adolescents, youth, young and older adults and as well as family caregivers. Use of digital health interventions in community settings in both urban and rural areas, e.g., care services for older persons at municipalities, schools, youth clinics, and particularly from the perspective of health promotion and disease prevention is an evolving research focus of the group.
The research group Caring in Community Care consists of researchers in various stages of their career. It is a multi-disciplinary group representing, geriatric nursing, public health, gerontology, family nursing, epidemiology, occupational therapy, paediatric nursing, psychology and social work.