Karin Mattsson

About me

Affiliated to Karolinska Institutet, Division of Nursing, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences
and Society.
Was from January 2019 until February 2024 working as a university lecturer at Karolinska Institutet.
In addition to long experience of training in nursing education and independent interprofessional courses at Mälardalen University (15
years) and at Ersta Sköndal Bräcke University (3 years), I have a
background as a registered nurse in elderly care and geriatric care. I am also a
registered Medical Laboratory Scientist and have 10 years of experience from
blood banking and transfusion medicine.
My main teaching and interest areas concern gerontology, geriatrics, and palliative care from an interdisciplinary perspective. I am also interested
in existential health and aging in a multicultural and global perspective.
Within these areas, I have developed and held courses at undergraduate and
advanced levels and collaborated with teachers from universities in other
parts of the world.

I have participated in research projects on registered nurses’ perceived
aspects on working with evidenced based care when nursing frail older adults
and in a project about the autonomy of older adults in home care. Another educational research project, Teaching Gerontology from a Global Perspective, is in collaboration with colleagues at universities in Thailand.
I am currently engaged in an educational research project about integrating theory in ethics to gerontological nursing care and
in a project which involves a course assignment - Conversations on
Death - Swedish Nursing Students Reflect on Existential Needs.