The Norwegian team comprise Hanne Tuntland, Marte Feiring, Oddvar Førland, Kari Hjelle, Hanne Leirbekk Mjøsund, Fanny Alexandra Jakobsen, Marianne Eliassen, Cathrine Fredriksen Moe and Hanne Leirbekk Mjøsund.
Hanne Tuntland is currently the coordinator of the Reable network. She works as a Professor (Docent in rehabilitation) at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (100% position) and as an Associate Professor at Oslo Metropolitan University (20% position). She has a doctoral degree from the University of Bergen, a master`s degree from the University of Oslo and a bachelor degree in Occupational therapy from Oslo Metropolitan University. She has an OT specialization dealing with work with older adults and long experience as a faculty member involved in master level interprofessional educations dealing with gerontology and rehabilitation. She is a pioneer in Norwegian reablement research and has been involved in two empirical studies investigating reablement. This has resulted in several scientific articles and reports, a doctoral thesis, an edited textbook and several book chapters exploring various aspects of reablement. She has also participated in the Global Think Tank on reablement arranged by the International Federation of Ageing. Currently she is a co-editor and co-author of the reablement book.
She is a pioneer in Norwegian reablement research and has been involved in two empirical studies investigating reablement. This has resulted in several scientific articles and reports, a doctoral thesis, an edited textbook and several book chapters exploring various aspects of reablement. She has also participated in the Global Think Tank on reablement arranged by the International Federation of Ageing.
Marte Feiring is Professor of Public Health and Rehabilitation at the Institute of rehabilitation science and health technology, Faculty of Health Science, Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet) in Norway, where she has worked since 2011. She holds a PhD in Sociology and a BA in Occupational therapy. Her research interests cover historical and critical perspectives on health policies, welfare services, professional knowledge, rehabilitation practices (including reablement) and civil movements. Currently, she is studying task shifting between medical doctors, allied health professions and patients in rheumatic care in cooperation with PhD students at Remedy (a research center for treatment in rheumatology and musculoskeletal diseases). She has published peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and commissioned research reports. Feiring holds courses in rehabilitation practices, disability studies, user-involvement, qualitative methods and critical perspectives at bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate levels. She has experience from supervising PhD and post doc students in several Nordic countries, Denmark, Sweden, and Iceland.
Oddvar Førland is a professor and senior researcher at the Centre for Care Research – Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. He is the chief editor of the Journal for Care Research/Tidsskrift for omsorgsforskning (Scandinavian University Press) which is an open access journal that publishes peer-reviewed articles within topics of care, caring, health and care services in the communities and municipalities, and their interaction with other services. Førland has led several research projects within the field of long-term care, elderly care and municipal health and care services. Areas of interest: Public organization and service development, implementation science, implementation of public reforms, dissemination of new knowledge, health and care service research, long-term care and elderly care, reablement, family carers, voluntary sector, trust studies and mixed-method studies.
Associate Professor/emerita Kari Margrete Hjelle has worked at the University College of Western Norway, since 1994 and has 28 years of teaching experience. She is an occupational therapist, and has worked as clinical occupational therapist in 13 years. She has a master degree from the University of Bergen, and her thesis describe the collaboration between occupational therapist and persons with spinal cord injury in hospital. Further research has been participation in society of persons with a disability, and how bachelor students develop the skills of acting through activity based pedagogy. Since 2015, Kari Margrete Hjelle´s research has been and still is focusing reablement. She has published four peer-reviewed articles describing the experiences of older persons´, relatives´ and teams´ experiences of participating in reablement service.
Hanne Leirbekk Mjøsund is an associate professor at Faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences, Nord University, Norway. Hanne is educated as a physical therapist (University College Lillebaelt, Denmark) and has a master of science in physical therapy (University of Southern Denmark). She has clinical experience from working in hospitals in Denmark and Norway, particularly in geriatric sections and with close collaboration with other professional groups. Hanne is particularly interested in investigating how PA can contribute to improving function and independence among older adults, and how healthcare professionals can promote PA in a meaningful way.
Fanny Alexandra Jakobsen, PhD in Health Sciences, Associate Professor in Occupational therapy, at the Department of Rehabilitation Science and Health Technology, Faculty of Health Sciences at OSLOMET, Norway. Her work experience as a clinical occupational therapist includes community-based rehabilitation and reablement. Her research field is reablement, next of kin, and occupational science. Field of research include collaboration between health professionals and next of kin, and adult children’s experiences of family occupations following ageing parents’ functional decline.
Kari Jokstad is currently a public-sector PhD student at the program ‘Person-centred Health Care’ at the University of South-Eastern Norway, and she works as advisor in the municipality of Drammen.In her PhD-project Kari investigated how user-involvement is understood and practised in reablement and how user-involvement from older adults with personal experience with reablement can improve the quality of a study. Kari is educated as a physical therapist (Oslo, Norway) and has her Master of Science in ‘Organization and Management’ from Østfold University College. She has clinical experience from hospitals and community-based habilitation and rehabilitation, and extensive experience as a manager at several levels in the municipal health service. Kari’s main interest is how user participation at the individual and system level can contribute to sustainable and person-centred municipal health and care services.
Marianne Eliassen is as associate professor at the Department of Health and care Sciences, UiT the Arctic University of Norway. Marianne is a physiotherapist with experiences from research in the field of health and care services and service design, particularly regarding reablement services for older adults and stroke rehabilitation. Her methodological experiences is mainly from qualitative approaches, including interviews, focus groups, observations, co-design methodologies and reviews.