Elisabet Cedersund

Professor Emerita

I am Professor Emerita in Ageing and Later Life at Linköping University.

Presentation

My research concerns different aspects of communication in social work, care and nursing. It is about professionals' meeting with clients, users, patients, and their relatives.

The research also concerns assessment and decision-making processes taking place in meetings in different parts of society.

Publications

2026

Axel Ågren, Elisabet Cedersund, Christine Swane (2026)

Framing Older Adults' Loneliness in Danish News Media: Between Societal Responsibility and Individual Burden The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, Article gbag063 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbag063

2024

Elisabet Cedersund, Anna Olaison, Susanne Kvarnström (2024)

Tensions between institutional and professional frames in team talk in gerontological social work Communication & Medicine: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Healthcare, Ethics and Society, Vol. 19, p. 221-240 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cam.25959

Elisabet Cedersund, Isabella Paoletti (2024)

"To be productive for as long as i live": art and cultural activities after eighty Creating new meanings for old age: plans and projects after eighty, p. 145-168 (Chapter in book)

Elisabeth Sundin, Elisabet Cedersund (2024)

Firms´Owners, Aged 80-Plus, in Sweden in the Early 2000s Creating New Meanings For Old Age: Plans and Projects After Eighty, p. 227-250 (Chapter in book)

Isabella Paoletti, Elisabet Cedersund, Konstantin Economou (2024)

Conciencia moral y diferentes órdenes de relevancia en la investigación participative con personas mayores y profesionales [Moral awareness and different orders of relevance in participatory research with older people and professionals] International Journal of Action Research, Vol. 19, p. 218-237 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v19i3.06

Research

Research on Ageing and Social Change

My research is conducted within the Research environment Ageing and Social Change.

The Ageing and Social Change research environment

The Ageing and Social Change research environment conducts leading-edge research on key social, political and cultural issues of ageing.

News

They research life-changing conversations

How can a conversation shape decisions that change lives? Research on conversational practices within welfare state institutions explores how language and interaction influence some of the most critical meetings in public services.

Organisation

Division of Ageing and Social Change (ASC)

ASC conducts leading-edge research on key social, political and cultural issues of ageing.

Department of Culture and Society (IKOS)

At the Department of Culture and Society (IKOS), social sciences and the humanities gather in environments where research and education work together.

Groups of students at tables in Studenthuset

Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FILFAK)

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences provides education and research in humanities, social- and behavioral sciences, commercial law, art disciplines and thematic science.