Ingrid Hellström

The Department of Health Care Sciences

Title: Professor of Gerontological Nursing, Deputy vice-chancellor

Phone: +46-76 636 50 59

Mail: ingrid.hellstrom@mchs.se

Address: Marie Cederschiöld högskola, Box 11189, 100 61 Stockholm
Visiting address: Folkungagatan 127

Field of work

Ingrid Hellström is a Professor of Gerontological Nursing, a registered nurse since 1991, and currently serves as Deputy vice-chancellor for Education. She has extensive clinical experience, has been teaching at the university level since 2001, and has previously held leadership positions at Linköping University.

Ingrid Hellström (RN, PhD) is a Professor of Gerontological Nursing at Marie Cederschiöld University in Stockholm, Sweden. She has a background in clinical gerontological nursing, and her main research interests focus on the care and support of people living with dementia and their families, particularly couples living at home. She is dedicated to actively involving people with dementia in research and advocates for a relationship-centred approach to care, alongside a person-centred one.

Ingrid Hellström has led or participated in research on the care of frail older adults, especially those living with dementia, and on support for their family carers, both in ordinary housing and in care homes. More recently, her research has expanded to include arts-based approaches in care home settings.

Ingrid Hellström teaches gerontological nursing, primarily focusing on the care and support of people living with dementia and their family members, as well as qualitative research methods. She teaches at the undergraduate, advanced, and doctoral levels, as well as in commissioned education courses.

  • Chair and ethics advisor of the External Advisory Board Board of the WELL CARE research and innovation project will co-create innovative solutions to support long-term care workers’ and informal carers’ resilience and mental wellbeing, funded by the European Commission within the Horizon Europe programme (2024–2027).
  • Senior adviser at Linköping University in the research programme DEM(H)CARE – Coordinated interventions between elderly care, home healthcare, and primary care with the aim of developing 'best practices' for older individuals living at home with cognitive disease, funded by Forte (2024–2031)
  • Member of the Editorial Board, Dementia: The International Journal of Social Research and Practice.

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Publications

Justine McGovern, Ingrid Hellström, Jan Oyebode (2024). Ecological Theory in the Context of Super-Diversity and Globalized Aging
Ingrid Hellström (2024). Kommunal hälso- och sjukvård: Arbetsmiljö bortom sjukhuset
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Mona Söderlund, Ingrid Hellström, Johan Vamstad, Ragnhild Hedman (2024). Peer support for the newly diagnosed: how people with dementia can co-produce meeting centre services
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Sara Eklöf, Charlotta Eskilson, Tove Godskesen, Ingrid Hellström, Agneta Wennman-Larsen (2024). Publiceringsetik utan gränser: En seminarieserie i samverkan
Therése Bielsten, Ingrid Hellström, Reena Lasrado, Mark Hann, Linda Davies, James Schumm, John Keady (2023). Doing Things Together in the Neighbourhood: Developing and testing the ‘DemPower’ app
Ingrid Hellström (2023). Older migrants and dementia
Therese Bielsten, Elzana Odzakovic, Agneta Kullberg, Jan Marcusson, Ingrid Hellström (2022). Controlling the Uncontrollable: Patient Safety and Medication Management From the Perspective of Registered Nurses in Municipal Home Health Care
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Reena Lasrado, Therese Bielsten, Mark Hann, James Schumm, Siobhan Theresa Reilly, Linda Davies, Caroline Swarbrick, Robyn Dowlen, John Keady, Ingrid Hellström (2021). Developing a Management Guide (the DemPower App) for Couples Where One Partner Has Dementia: Nonrandomized Feasibility Study
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Magda Eriksson-Liebon, Susanne Roos, Ingrid Hellström (2021). Patients' expectations and experiences of being involved in their own care in the emergency department: A qualitative interview study
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Iréne Ericsson, Anne W. Ekdahl, Ingrid Hellström (2021). "To be seen": older adults and their relatives' care experiences given by a geriatric mobile team (GerMoT)
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Johan Lundgren, Annika Norell-Clarke, Ingrid Hellström, Charlotte Angelhoff (2020). Adolescents' Experiences of Staying Overnight at Family-Centered Pediatric Wards
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Bodil Holmberg, Ingrid Hellström, Jane Österlind (2020). Elements of assisted bodily care: Ethical aspects
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Ingrid Hellström (2020). Hur kan framtidens vård för äldre utvecklas?
Elzana Odzakovic, Ingrid Hellström, Richard Ward, Agneta Kullberg (2020). 'Overjoyed that I can go outside': Using walking interviews to learn about the lived experience and meaning of neighbourhood for people living with dementia
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Ragnhild Hedman, Astrid Norberg, Ingrid Hellström (2019). Agency and communion in people with Alzheimer's disease, as described by themselves and their spousal carers.
Bodil Holmberg, Ingrid Hellström, Astrid Norberg, Jane Österlind (2019). Assenting to exposedness: meanings of receiving assisted bodily care in a nursing home as narrated by older persons.
Bodil Holmberg, Ingrid Hellström, Astrid Norberg, Jane Österlind (2019). Assenting to exposedness: meanings of receiving assisted bodily care (RABC) in a nursing home as narrated by older persons
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Bodil Holmberg, Ingrid Hellström, Jane Österlind (2019). Being a spectator in ambiguity: Family members' perceptions of assisted bodily care in a nursing home
Bodil Holmberg, Ingrid Hellström, Jane Österlind (2019). End-of-life care in a nursing home: Assistant nurses' perspectives
Reena Lasrado, Therése Bielsten, Mark Hann, Linda Davies, James Schumm, Siobhan Reilly, Caroline Swarbrick, John Keady, Ingrid Hellström (2018). Designing and Implementing a Home-Based Couple Management Guide for Couples Where One Partner has Dementia (DemPower): Protocol for a Nonrandomized Feasibility Trial.
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Ragnhild Hedman, Ingrid Hellström, Britt-Marie Ternestedt, Görel Hansebo, Astrid Norberg (2018). Sense of Self in Alzheimer’s Research Participants
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Therése Bielsten, Ingrid Hellström (2017). A review of couple-centred interventions in dementia: Exploring the what and why - Part A.
Bodil Holmberg, Ingrid Hellström, Jane Österlind (2017). Being a companion at a natural pathway towards death
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Ingrid Hellström, Cecilia Håkanson, Henrik Eriksson, Jonas Sandberg (2017). Development of older men's caregiving roles for wives with dementia.
Jane Österlind, Britt-Marie Ternestedt, Görel Hansebo, Ingrid Hellström (2017). Feeling lonely in an unfamiliar place: Older people's experiences of life close to death in a nursing home
Ingrid Hellström, Lars-Christer Hydén (2016). Att leva med demens
Elin Nilsson, Ingrid Hellström (2016). Demens och identitet i relationer
Therése Bielsten, Ingrid Hellström (2016). Den bortglömda kroppen
Ragnhild Hedman, Görel Hansebo, Britt-Marie Ternestedt, Ingrid Hellström, Astrid Norberg (2016). Expressed Sense of Self by People With Alzheimer’s Disease in a Support Group Interpreted in Terms of Agency and Communion
Ingrid Hellström (2016). Vardag och samspel hemma eller på hemmet
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Ragnhild Hedman, Ingrid Hellström, Britt-Marie Ternestedt, Görel Hansebo, Astrid Norberg (2014). Social positioning by people with Alzheimer's disease in a support group
Ida Carlander (Goliath), Britt-Marie Ternestedt, Jonas Sandberg, Ingrid Hellström (2013). Constructing family identity close to death
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Henrik Eriksson, Jonas Sandberg, Ingrid Hellström (2013). Experiences of long-term home care as an informal caregiver to a spouse: gendered meanings in everyday life for female carers.
Ragnhild Hedman, Görel Hansebo, Britt-Marie Ternestedt, Ingrid Hellström, Astrid Norberg (2013). How people with Alzheimer's disease express their sense of self: Analysis using Rom Harré's theory of selfhood
Jane Österlind, Görel Hansebo, Janicke Andersson, Britt-Marie Ternestedt, Ingrid Hellström (2011). A discourse of silence: professional carers resoning of death and dying in nursing homes
Ida Carlander (Goliath), Britt-Marie Ternestedt, Eva Sahlberg-Blom, Ingrid Hellström, Jonas Sandberg (2011). Being me and being us in a family living close to death at home
Ida Carlander (Goliath), Britt-Marie Ternestedt, Eva Sahlberg-Blom, Ingrid Hellström, Jonas Sandberg (2011). Four aspects of self-image close to death at home
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Ida Carlander (Goliath), Eva Sahlberg-Blom, Ingrid Hellström, Britt-Marie Ternestedt (2011). The modified self: family caregivers' experiences of caring for a dying family member at home
Lise-Lotte Dwyer, Ingrid Hellström (2010). Ett värdigt möte i vardagen
Ingrid Hellström, Ida Carlander (Goliath) (2010). Närstående i hemsjukvården
Ingrid Hellström (2010). Värdighet och äldre makar med demens
Ingrid Hellström (2009). Dignity and elderly spouses with dementia
Ingrid Hellström, M Nolan (2009). Time together
Ulla Lundh, Ingrid Hellström (2007). Berättelsen om Elna och Harald
Ingrid Hellström, Mike Nolan, Lennart Nordenfelt, Ulla Lundh (2007). Ethical and methodological issues in interviewing persons with dementia
Ingrid Hellström, Ulla Lundh (2007). Livet med demenssjukdom på äldre dagar
Ingrid Hellström, Mike Nolan, Ulla Lundh (2007). Sustaining 'couplehood': spouses' strategies for living positively with dementia
Ingrid Hellström, Mike Nolan, Ulla Lundh (2005). Awareness context theory and the dynamics of dementia: Improving understanding using emergent fit
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Ingrid Hellström (2005). Parrelationer i förändring vid demenssjukdom
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Ingrid Hellström, Mike Nolan, Ulla Lundh (2005). We do things together: A case study of couplehood

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10 October 2025