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Department of Palliative Care Research
Department of Health Care Sciences
Ersta Sköndal University College
Campus Ersta

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Title:	RN, PhD, co-ordinator
Mobile:	+ 46 766 36 50 11
E-mail:	jane.osterlind(at)esh.se
Address:	Ersta Sköndal University College Box 111 89 SE-110 61 Stockholm Sweden
Visiting address:	Folkungagatan 121

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RN 1994
PhD 2009
Co-ordinator  for the Department of Palliative Care Research.
Project leader for the implementation of palliative care in nursing homes, in the south of the city centre of Stockholm.


Research area

My research focuses on death and dying from different perspectives, older peoples’ death and dying, attitudes towards death, and cultural aspects of death and dying in care


Publications

Österlind J. (2009) When living space shrinks – caring for older people at the end of life. Doctoral dissertation. Örebro University

Österlind J, Hansebo G, Andersson J, Ternestedt B-M, & Hellström I. A discourse of silence: carers’ reasoning about death and dying in nursing homes (Accepted for publication in Ageing & Society, 2010)

Österlind J, Hansebo G, Lindqvist R, & Ternestedt B-M. (2009) Moving on a roundabout at the end of life: What counts? Waiting times for transfer to sheltered accommodation for older people in Sweden. Health Policy, 91, (2): 183-188. doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2008.12.008

Österlind J, Hansebo G, Lantz G, & Ternestedt B-M. (2008) Pathways in end-of-life care for older people. Care managers’ reasoning. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 14(9), 420-425.


Book chapters (in Swedish) 

Österlind J. (2007) Vårdkultur och självbestämmande i sjukhemsmiljö ( s. 235- 247) I: G Silfverberg (red.) Hemmets vårdetik om vård av äldre i livets slutskede. Lund: Studentlitteratur

Österlind J. (2001) Omvårdnadsbehov i livets slutskede (s.92-101). I Fridegren & S Lyckander (red.).  Palliativ vård. Stockholm: Liber.