Healthy Aging Research
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The academy for Work Life and Social Welfare, Faculty of Caring Science, University of Boras, 501 90 Boras, Sweden

Biography

I have worked at the University of Borås since 1999 and have held many different roles. I have been a doctoral student and received my doctorate in 2005; thereafter, I have been an instructor, researcher, and manager.
Since 2007, I have had primarily management roles. Initially, I was a Director of Graduate Studies and then become a Department Head. I have been Dean of the Faculty of Caring Science, Work Life and Social Welfare since 2012. To lead a successful and dynamic organisation is very challenging and hugely stimulating!

Publications

• Research   
  Life without professional work-perceptions about ones self, interpersonal relations and social life after retirement
  Author(s): Ann-Charlotte Dalheim-Englund, Gunilla Carlsson*, Maria Nystrom, Catharina Gillsjo, Irene Eriksson and Lina Palmer
  
  The aim of this study is to understand how healthy, older adults in Sweden perceive their life situation after retirement. The study is based on a lifeworld approach, and a phenomenographic method was used. Eighteen participants were interviewed, and data were analysed according to the phenomenographic principle of qualitatively different categories. Two categories were developed. The first category, “perceptions that draw attention inward, towards one’s self”, was further described in three subcategories: Sense of decreased status in society, the desire to keep aging at a distance, and contemplation of one’s own existence. The second category, “perceptions that draw attention outward, away from one’s self” was further described in the following four subcategories: caretaking of family members, involvement in social relationships, finding of d.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/har.2019.8.2

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