About
Marijke Veenstra is research professor at the department of Ageing research and Housing studies. She has a background in medical sociology and her main research focus is on health services research and social inequalities in ageing. Veenstra is PI for the national research infrastructure for NorLAG, funded by the RCN. Her research interests also include methodological and psychometric challenges related to survey methods in general and ageing research specifically.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Subject areas
Aging Health Quanitative research methods Social inequalities Life-evolvement Health-services Sociology
Administrative field of work
Research infrastructure Contract work Organisational development Project management
Research groups
Research projects
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ACCESS Life Course Database: Upgrade and Expansion
Through the ACCESS Upgrade infrastructure, researchers and students will gain access to updated and upgraded longitudinal life course data for more than 11,000 men and women born between 1922 and 1966.
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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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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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The Norwegian Life Course, Ageing and Generation Study (NorLAG)
A multidisciplinary and longitudinal study that includes data on well-being, health, work, care, and family relations in the second half of life (age 40+).
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Herlofson, Katharina; Veenstra, Marijke (2023). Livsløpsoverganger i eldre år. Betydningen av kjønn og sosioøkonomisk status. 15 p. Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning . Vol. 26.
Veenstra, Marijke; Aartsen, Marja (2022). Life-course income trajectories of men and women in Norway: Implications for self-rated health in later life. European Journal of Public Health . Vol. 32.
Syse, Astri; Artamonova, Alyona; Thomas, Michael J.; Veenstra, Marijke
(2022).
Do characteristics of family members influence older persons’ transition to long-term healthcare services?.
13 p.
BMC Health Services Research
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Vol. 22.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3027427
Veenstra, Marijke; Løset, Gøril Kvamme; Daatland, Svein Olav (2021). Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality After Age 67: The Contribution of Psychological Factors. Frontiers in Psychology .
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
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Vol. 7.
http://hdl.handle.net/10852/89977
Skinner, Marianne S.; Veenstra, Marijke; Sogstad, Maren
(2021).
Nurses' assessments of horizontal collaboration in municipal health and care services for older adults: A cross-sectional study.
Research in Nursing and Health
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Vol. 44.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2976580
Veenstra, Marijke; Herlofson, Katharina; Aartsen, Marja; Hansen, Thomas; Hellevik, Tale; Henriksen, Gry; Løset, Gøril Kvamme; Vangen, Hanna
(2021).
Cohort Profile: The Norwegian Life Course, Ageing and Generation Study (NorLAG).
International Journal of Epidemiology
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Vol. 50.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3010495
Veenstra, Marijke; Gautun, Heidi (2020). Nurses' assessments of staffing adequacy in care services for older patients following hospital discharge. Journal of Advanced Nursing .
Veenstra, Marijke; Skinner, Marianne Sundlisæter; Sogstad, Maren Kristine Raknes
(2020).
A nation-wide cross-sectional study of variations in homecare nurses’ assessments of informational continuity – the importance of horizontal collaboration and municipal context.
BMC Health Services Research
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Vol. 20.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2729127
Veenstra, Marijke; Daatland, Svein Olav; Aartsen, Marja (2020). The role of subjective age in sustaining wellbeing and health in the second half of life. 21 p. Ageing & Society .
