Annica Kihlgren
Position: Professor School/office: School of Health SciencesEmail: YW5uaWNhLmtpaGxncmVuO29ydS5zZQ==
Phone: +46 19 301496
Room: P2340
About Annica Kihlgren
Annica Kihlgren is a registered nurse and graduated with her PhD in 2005 at the Karolinska Institute with her thesis "Older Patients in Transition- from Home Care towards Emergency Care". Annica currently works as a professor of Nursing Science in the Department of Health Sciences.
Research focus / current projects
The focus in ongoing research is on the older person's health and living conditions, based on the person's own subjective experience and the care provided to the elderly, with a connection to person-centered care. The studies also shed light on care staff and leaders' views on their work situation and organizational aspects in elderly care. Great emphasis is placed on developing instruments, disseminating and implementing new knowledge in elderly care, in which Annica works closely with the various actors.
The importance of age-associated gastrointestinal problems during aging is studied through interdisciplinary research in collaboration with the graduate school NUPARC, "The Örebro Nutrition and Physical Activity Research Center for Optimal Health and Functionality through Life" and the research environment Nutrition Gut Brain Interaction.
The focus in national projects includes older people in the care chain as well as older people's care needs, and international studies are being conducted on the importance of serenity during aging, in which collaboration takes place with researchers in Norway and Spain.
Methodologically, Annica has primarily knowledge in qualitative research and action research as well as in planning, leading and implementing major projects.
Teaching
Annica teaches and supervises students at undergraduate and advanced level and she supervises doctoral students during postgraduate education.
Other roles
Annica has often been appointed as a reviewer of Nordic research applications, educational programs and she has been an opponent and member of grading committees at several national and Nordic dissertations.
Advisory Board member of the project “Aiming for quality in nursing home care: rethinking clinical supervision and assessment of student nurses in clinical studies (QualinClinStud)” in collaboration with the University of Stavanger, University of Agdir and the University of Söröst in Norway.
Research projects
Active projects
- Agile Competency-Based Learning for Individuals and Teams, ACTIVATE
- Working in health and social care for older persons
- Implementing core values
- Rethinking Environments in Dementia Care Homes (REDem) - paving the way for equality in care delivery
- Being a manager in health and social care for older persons
- The older person's path through the health care system -from home to emergency room admission and discharge from in-patient care
- Improved sensory experience for elderly
- Clinical reasoning and decision-making in home health care. Towards a knowledge-based education and municipal healthcare.
- Municipality chief nurses (MAS) obstacles and possibilities to fulfill their duties in municipal health care.
- Model and knowledge support for the development of good palliative care in the home
- Serenity in old age
- Sound and Taste; how does sound affect the way we perceive taste?
Completed projects
- Life situations of relatives assisting family members with long-term chronic illness, old age or disability
- To work together to develop a meaningful everyday life for older people in aged care. A participant-based research program
- Efficacy of dietary supplementation with Lactobacilllus reuteri for digestive health in an elderly population (ELROY)
- Physical and psychological characteristics in adolescence and risk of cerebrovascular disease
- The right to safe living conditions in old age