About
Heidi Gautun is a Research Professor at the department of Ageing Research and Housing Studies, Norwegian Social Research (NOVA), Oslo Metropolitan University. She is a sociologist with a Dr. Polit degree from the University of Oslo. Her research interests include family care to older people, combining work and care to older parents, community care to older people, as well as coordination between hospital and municipal health and care services for older people.
Field of study
Informal care Elderly care services Coordination hospitals and community care services Combining work and care for older parents
Research groups
Research projects
Ongoing research projects
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Can Organizational Changes Solve the Staffing Challenges in Municipal Health and Care Services?
The project aims to explore whether organizational changes can help address the shortage of healthcare professionals in municipal home care services.
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Enabling Ageing in Place (AgePlace)
In this project the researchers aim to generate new knowledge on the precondition for safe ageing in place.
Completed research projects
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Combining Work and Care for Older Parents (CoWorkCare)
The primary objective of CoWorkCare is to generate knowledge on how employees' care obligations for their old parents affect their labour market participation.
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Crosscare-Old: A Cross Sectoral Approach to High Quality Healthcare Transitions for Older People
The project aims to increase the understanding of the role of cross-sectoral factors that constitute barriers for high quality care transitions for older people from hospital to municipal care.
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How Do We Provide Better, Safer and More Cost-Effective Pathways for Older People?
The project addresses how the spatial context in which people live during different stages of their lives shape their life prospects and socioeconomic outcomes.
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Social Inequalities in Ageing (SiA)
In this project researchers investigate what influences social inequalities in health, and how different organization of welfare institutions can affect social inequalities in ageing.
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State of Knowledge: The Resource Situation in Nursing Homes and Home Nursing
The project summarizes research and available data which illuminates the resource situation (staffing and competence) in nursing homes and home nursing.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Gautun, Heidi
;
Gotehus, Aslaug
; Fevang, Elisabeth
(2024).
Jobb og omsorg for gamle foreldre. Hvordan legge til rette for å få til begge deler?.
Søkelys på arbeidslivet.
https://doi.org/10.18261/spa.41.2.4
Fevang, Elisabeth; Fidjeland, Andreas;
Gautun, Heidi
;
Lillebråten, Andreas
; Lillebø, Otto Sevaldson
(2024).
Turnusordninger i kommunenes helse- og omsorgstjenester – kraftig vekst i omfang av langvakter, årsturnus og fleksibel turnus.
Tidsskrift for omsorgsforskning.
Vol. 10.
https://doi.org/10.18261/tfo.10.3.1
Gautun, Heidi
; Bratt, Christopher
(2024).
Caring for older parents in Norway – How does it affect labor market participation and absence from work?.
Social Science and Medicine.
Vol. 346.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116722
Kvæl, Linda Aimee Hartford
;
Gautun, Heidi
(2023).
Social inequality in navigating the healthcare maze: Care trajectories from hospital to home via intermediate care for older people in Norway.
Social Science and Medicine.
Vol. 333.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116142
Gautun, Heidi
; Bratt, Christopher
(2023).
Help and Care to Older Parents in the Digital Society.
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies.
Vol. 13.
https://doi.org/10.18291/njwls.137453
Gautun, Heidi
;
Kvæl, Linda Aimee Hartford
; Bratt, Christopher
(2022).
After Hospital: Should Older Care-Needing Patients Be Transferred to Their Homes or to an intermediate Care Institution?.
Healthcare.
Vol. 10.
https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10030475
Gautun, Heidi
; Hellesø, Ragnhild; Veenstra, Marijke
(2021).
The association between hospital nurses’ perspectives on their information practices and quality of care transitions in older patients: A nation-wide cross-sectional study.
Tidsskrift for omsorgsforskning.
Vol. 7.
https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.2387-5984-2021-02-07
Gautun, Heidi
(2021).
For få på jobb? Sykepleierbemanning i sykehjem og hjemmesykepleien.
Søkelys på arbeidslivet.
Vol. 38.
https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.1504-7989-2021-02-05
Gautun, Heidi
;
Sørvoll, Jardar
(2021).
Hjemmetjenester eller institusjonsomsorg? Et forvaltningskommunalt dilemma i norsk eldreomsorg.
Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning.
Vol. 24.
https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.2464-3076-2021-03-04
Veenstra, Marijke;
Gautun, Heidi
(2020).
Nurses' assessments of staffing adequacy in care services for older patients following hospital discharge.
Journal of Advanced Nursing.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14636
