Elin Jakobsson

Elin Jakobsson

Affiliated to Research
Telephone: +46852483837
Visiting address: Alfred Nobels Allé 23, 14183 Huddinge
Postal address: H1 Neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhälle, H1 Arbetsterapi Patomella, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • I received my occupational therapy degree in 2006 at Luleå University of
    Technology. After that, I worked clinically in both primary care and
    inpatient care in various locations in Sweden.
    In 2021, I defended my dissertation entitled Voices in the Wake of eHealth:
    Older adults' and Occupational Therapists' Perceptions of Using Information
    and Communication Technology. The thesis is about how older adults with
    cognitive impairments (as a result of e.g. stroke or dementia) experience
    their use of everyday technology with a particular focus on the use of
    eHealth. The thesis also included occupational therapists and their
    perceptions of the usability of the Everyday Technology Use Questionnaire
    (ETUQ) that had been digitized. My main supervisor during the thesis work
    was Camilla Walles Malinowsky [1].
    Since 2021, I am a postdoc in the research group HELD [2] in the project Make
    My Day [3] at the Occupational Therapy Department. The Make My Day research
    program addresses one of our biggest health challenges (risk factors for
    stroke and cardiovascular disease) as well as the complexity of incorporating
    healthy habits into everyday life, with an intervention based on
    participants' needs and engagement in everyday activities and supported
    through an e-health innovation (a mobile app). Participating in engaging
    everyday activities (EEAs) concerns regular health-promoting and meaningful
    activities which can help establish a sustainable and healthy lifestyle.
    In addition to my employment at KI, I am also employed as a postdoc at
    Stockholm Gerontology Research Center [4] in the research project STEG. STEG
    aims to develop collaborative models to support preventive self-care in the
    home environment for frail elderly people.
    [1] https://ki.se/en/people/cammal
    [2] https://ki.se/en/nvs/health-in-everyday-life-among-people-with-neurological-disorders-held
    [3] https://ki.se/en/nvs/make-my-day-prevention-of-stroke
    [4] https://aldrecentrum.se/in-english/

Research

  • *Publications*
    Jakobsson, E., Nygård, L., Kottorp, A., &
  • Malinowsky, C. (2019). Experiences
    from using eHealth in contact with health care among older adults with
    cognitive impairment. Scandinavian journal of caring sciences, 33(2),
    380-389.
    Jakobsson, E., Nygård, L., Kottorp, A., Bråkenhielm Olsson, C., &

  • Malinowsky, C. (2020). Does the Purpose Matter? A comparison of everyday
    information and communication technologies between eHealth use and general
    use as perceived by older adults with cognitive impairment. Disability and
    Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 1–10. (Published online.)
    Jakobsson, E., Nygård, L., Kottorp, A., Bråkenhielm Olsson, C., &

  • Malinowsky, C. (2020). The use of everyday technology
  • a comparison of older
    persons with cognitive impairments’ self-reports and their proxies’
    reports. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 84(7) 446 –455.
    Jakobsson, E., Helle, T., Lundberg, S., Nygård, L., &
  • Malinowsky, C. (2020).
    Usability tests of a digitized questionnaire when used by occupational
    therapists in practice and research. (In manuscript.)

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Employments

  • Affiliated to Research, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, 2023-2025

Degrees and Education

  • Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, 2021

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