Aging Research Center (ARC) E-mail: carin.lennartsson@ki.se |
Carin Lennartsson has a Ph.D. in sociology and works as a researcher at ARC. Her research mainly concerns older people's level of living situation, and especially child-parent solidarity, social integration and health. Main research interests are intergenerational financial transfers and relations in the family.
What motivates family members to support each other, and if exchanges between generations differ depending on family structure and social class.
She is also involved in research on older people´s living conditions, including their health status, and how these conditions have changed during the last decades. She has explored, using SWEOLD data, how gender inequalities in health are modified by marital status, and the importance of economic resources in generating such inequalities.
She is also project coordinator and responsible for the planning and conducting of the SWEOLD-study as well as director of studies for the National Graduate School of Aging Research at ARC.
Selected publications
Lennartsson, C, Silverstein, M, & Fritzell, J. Time-for-Money exchanges between older and younger generations in Swedish families (accepted in Journal of Family Issues).
Fors, S. & Lennartsson, C. (2008). Social mobility, geographical proximity and intergenerational family contact, Ageing & Society 28:253-270.
Lennartsson, C. & Lundberg, O. (2007). What’s marital status got to do with it? Gender inequalities in economic resources, health and functional abilities among older adults, in J. Fritzell & O. Lundberg (eds) Health Inequalities and Welfare Resources: Continuity and Change in Sweden, Brighton. Policy Press
Fritzell, J., Lennartsson, C., & Lundberg, O. (2007). Health inequalities and welfare resources – findings and forecasts, in J. Fritzell & O. Lundberg (eds) Health Inequalities and Welfare Resources: Continuity and Change in Sweden, Brighton. Policy Press
Östberg, V. & Lennartsson, C. (2007). Getting by with a little help. The importance of various types of social support for health problems. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 35: 197-204.
Fritzell, J & Lennartsson, C. (2005). Financial transfer between generations in Sweden. Ageing & Society, 25: 397-414
Thorslund, M., Lennartsson, C., Parker, M. G., & Lundberg, O. (2004). De allra äldstas hälsa - Nya data visar försämringar men att könsskillnaderna består. Läkartidningen 101: 1494-1499.
Lennartsson, C. & Silverstein, M. (2001). Does Engagement-with-Life Enhance Survival of the Oldest Old? An Assessment of the Social and Leisure Activities of the Swedish Elderly. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 56: S335-S342
Lennartsson, C. (2001). Still in Touch. Family Contacts, Activities and Health among Elderly in Sweden. Dissertation. Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University.
Lennartsson, C. (1999). Social Ties and Health Among the Very Old in Sweden. Research on Aging. 21:657-681