Carin Lennartsson

I am associate professor of sociology, senior lecturer at Karolinska Institutet and director and deputy head of Aging Research Center (ARC),

Karolinska Institutet/Stockholm University.

In my position as principal director of the Swedish Panel Study of Living Conditions of the Oldest Old – SWEOLD, I am affiliated to the Swedish Institute of Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University.

SWEOLD (sweold.se) is an ongoing, nationally representative survey of the older population in Sweden and is based on the Swedish Level of Living Survey (LNU).

My scientific research within the age and ageing areas is wide-ranging and can be categorized within the following areas:

• Health status and health changes

• Intergenerational transfers and support

• Health and health inequalities in late-life

• Social and economic living conditions

• Social participation and loneliness

• Long-term health effects of extending working life

A further focus of my research is the methodological challenges involved in studying the oldest old.

I currently head the FORTE-funded research project, Long-term health effects of extending working life and the VR-funded research project, Cash and care. Intergenerational transfers in the families of the oldest-old and their consequences for inequality.

https://medarbetare.ki.se/people/carin-lennartsson

https://www.sweold.se/