Social work and care in a life-course
About this group
Group information
Social work and care in a life-course is a research group that studies social and individual aspects of the elderly and aging, impairment and disability, mental illness, and recovery processes in today's society. This includes issues relating to formal care within the framework of need assessment, organization, and the involvement of civil society, as well as issues relating to informal care, such as family and relatives' care. This is studied based on a life-course, which means children, young people, adults, and the elderly.
Recovery processes, rehabilitation, and habilitation, at individual, group and societal level are studied from different theoretical and methodological perspectives, both from a national and international context. The research group is inspired by an interdisciplinary perspective in studies of social support for people in vulnerable situations where the goal is accessibility, participation, and equal living conditions in society for the target groups studied.
External researchers
Jürgen Degner, email: jurgen.degner@orebro.se
Charles Kiiza Wamara, email: ckwamara@kab.ac.ug
Research projects
Active projects
- Coordinated psychosocial rehabilitation for adults affected by stroke
- Evaluation of a home-based parenting support program - Parenting Young Children - for parents with intellectual and developmental disabilities when there is a risk for neglect
- Implementation of IPS within the psychosis care
- Newbreed
- Sexuality in elder care
- Specialized Water Dance Intervention (SWAN) for people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities
- Supported Employment and gender - how do sex and gender influence a vocational rehabilitation process for men and women with mental and intellectual disabilities?
- The stroke project in Kumla
