About
Research areas:
Healthcare services
Professional work
The welfare state
Aging and nursing
Migration
Intercultural perspectives
Research groups
Research projects
Ongoing research projects
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SAFE@HOME: Technologies of care for aging migrants
The project will examine how the “Live Safely at Home” reform functions when it encounters diverse ageing lives, families, and everyday practices that fall outside the standard models of municipal services.
Completed research projects
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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.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Hindhede, Anette Lykke; Poulsen, Ingrid;
Debesay, Jonas
(2025).
Social nursing in Denmark: a specialized response to vulnerability in healthcare.
Harsløf, Ivan; Innvær, Simon; Jenssen, Dag; Bekken, Wenche; Bode, Ingo (Ed.).
Hybrid Social Work
Contested Knowledge, Fragile Collaboration and Social Citizenship.
Edward Elgar Publishing.
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035327218.00015
Lillekroken, Daniela
;
Bye, Asta
;
Halvorsrud, Liv
;
Terragni, Laura
;
Debesay, Jonas
(2024).
Food for Soul—Older Immigrants’ Food Habits and Meal Preferences After Immigration: A Systematic Literature Review.
Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health.
Vol. 26.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-023-01571-5
Stray, Karoline
; Wibe, Torunn;
Debesay, Jonas
;
Bye, Asta
(2024).
Older adults’ perceptions and experiences of interprofessional communication as part of the delivery of integrated care in the primary healthcare sector: a meta-ethnography of qualitative studies.
BMC Geriatrics.
Vol. 24.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-024-04745-4
Debesay, Jonas
;
Wille, Elisabeth
(2024).
Helsesykepleierens kultursensitive samtale med ungdom med flerkulturell bakgrunn i skolen.
Heggen, Kristin; Kirkevold, Marit (Ed.).
Sykepleiefaglige arbeids- og tenkemåter
En caseorientert bok.
Gyldendal Akademisk.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/4869980
Shrestha, Sunita; Arora, Sanjana; Hunter, Alistair;
Debesay, Jonas
(2024).
The Morality of Care: Female Family Caregivers’ Motivations for Providing Care to Older Migrants.
Qualitative Health Research.
https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323241280239
Kristiansen, Pia Cathrin; Bastien, Sheri;
Debesay, Jonas
; Fagernes, Mette
(2024).
How and why do healthcare workers use gloves in two Norwegian nursing homes?.
Journal of Hospital Infection.
Vol. 146.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2024.02.005
Shrestha, Sunita; Hunter, Alistair;
Debesay, Jonas
; Arora, Sanjana
(2024).
Intergenerational ambivalence among families with a migrant background caring for older relatives.
Journal of Migration and Health.
Vol. 10.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmh.2024.100244
Shrestha, Sunita; Arora, Sanjana; Hunter, Alistair;
Debesay, Jonas
(2024).
Aging in place or aging out of place? Family caregivers’ perspectives on care for older Pakistani migrants in Norway.
European Journal of Ageing.
Vol. 21.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-024-00832-y
Debesay, Jonas
;
Langhammer, Birgitta
;
Nortvedt, Line
(2023).
Eldre innvandrerkvinner har dårligere helse enn resten av befolkningen.
Tidsskriftet sykepleien.
Vol. 111.
https://doi.org/10.4220/Sykepleiens.2023.91013
Pettersen, Ruben Jervell;
Debesay, Jonas
(2023).
Substance use and help-seeking barriers: a qualitative study of East African migrants’ experiences of access to Norwegian healthcare services.
BMC Health Services Research.
Vol. 23.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09110-6
