
Personlig presentation av Marie Elf
I am Professor of Nursing at Dalarna University in the Department of Nursing. I have a position as development manager for the nursing program. I am originally qualified as a nurse, have a PhD in architecture and have since worked across a number of academic environments in nursing, architecture and health services with a focus on architecture and its impact on the patient's health and well-being. Ever since I graduated in healthcare architecture, I have devoted myself to research to provide evidence on the built environment and its impact on the health and well-being of older people and patients with stroke. Today I combine my knowledge of nursing and architecture in my research. I lead several projects with a focus on care and rehabilitation at home for people with frail health. My research includes person-centered care, participation, and support for self-care - always with a question about how the environment looks like and is experienced. Is it promoting or hindering?
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Coordinate (teChnology tO suppORt DecIsioN-making about Ageing aT homE)
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Evaluating design quality and its impact on quality of life and care for older persons living in nursing homes
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REARCH (Rehabilitation and architecture)
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Stroke care units: evaluating the design quality and its impact on patients health, quality of care, and perception of the environment
- Features of the social and built environment that contribute to the well-being of people with dementia who live at home: A scoping review, Health and Place, 2021, Vol. 67. Article : refereed. .
- The physical environment and multi-professional teamwork in three newly built stroke units, Disability and Rehabilitation, 2020, 1-9. Article : refereed. .
- The built environment and its impact on health outcomes and experiences of patients, significant others and staff-A protocol for a systematic review, Nursing Open, 2020, Vol. 7, 895-899. Article : refereed. .
- The home as a place for rehabilitation-What is needed?, Part of: Architecture for Residential Care and Ageing Communities, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. Chapter of book. .
- Perceptive Dialogue for Linking Stakeholders and Units During Care Transitions - A Qualitative Study of People with Stroke, Significant Others and Healthcare Professionals in Sweden, International Journal of Integrated Care, 2020, Vol. 20, No. 1. Article : refereed. .
- Education for sustainable healthcare : Leadership to get from here to there., Medical teacher, 2020, Vol. 42, No. 10, 1123-1127. Article : refereed. .
- Application of Theory in Studies of Healthcare Built Environment Research, Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 2020, Vol. 13, No. 3, 154-170. Article : refereed. .
- Bringing the single versus multi-patient room debate to vulnerable patient populations : a systematic review of the impact of room types on hospitalized older people and people with neurological disorders, Intelligent Buildings International, 2020, Vol. 12, No. 3, 180-198. Article : refereed. .
- "It's lonely" : Patients' experiences of the physical environment at a newly built stroke unit, Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 2019, No. 3, 141-152. Article : refereed. .
- A study of relationships between content in documents from the health service operational plan and documents from the planning of new healthcare environments, Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 2019, Vol. 12, No. 3, 107-118. Article : refereed. .
- The importance of the built environment in person-centred rehabilitation at home : study protocol, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019, Vol. 16, No. 13. Article : refereed. .
- The importance of the built environment in person-centred stroke rehabilitation at home, The importance of the built environment in person-centred stroke rehabilitation at home : 2019. Conference paper. .
- Stroke secondary prevention, a non-surgical and non-pharmacological consensus definition : results of a Delphi study, BMC Research Notes, 2019, Vol. 12, No. 1. Article : refereed. .
- Developmentand initial validation of the Staff Perception Of Residential care Environments (SPORE) instrument, 2019. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Conceptualizing health promotion in relation to outpatient healthcare building design: a scoping review, Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 2019, Vol. 12, No. 1, 69-86. Article : refereed. .
- Technology to support decision-making for older people with dementia, 2019. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Can the physical environment itself influence neurological patient activity?, Disability and Rehabilitation, 2019, Vol. 41, No. 10, 1177-1189. Article : refereed. .
- The Swedish version of the Normalization Process Theory Measure S-NoMAD : Translation, adaptation and pilot testing, 2018. Conference paper : refereed. .
- The Swedish version of the normalisation process theory measurement s-nomad : Translation, adaptation and pilot testing, BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine, 2018, Vol. 23, No. Suppl 1, A33-A33. Article : refereed. .
- Multi-professional teamwork in stroke units - time to understand the impact of the built environment on the work of staff, International Journal of Stroke, 2018, Vol. 13, 59-59. Article. .
- “Det är ensamt”– patienternas upplevelse av den fysiska miljön på en nybyggd strokeenhet, 2018. Conference paper : refereed. .
- The physical environment and patients' activities and care. A comparative case study at three newly built stroke units, Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2018, Vol. 74. Article : refereed. .
- Supporting first-line managers in implementing oral care guidelines in nursing homes – a pilot study, Nordic journal of nursing research, 2018, No. 2, 87-95. Article : refereed. .
- The Swedish version of the Normalization Process Theory Measure S-NoMAD : translation, adaptation, and pilot testing, Implementation Science, 2018, Vol. 13, No. 1. Article : refereed. .
- Person-centered transitions for people with stroke - are we doing enough? : A Swedish example, International Journal of Stroke, 2018, Vol. 13, 18-18. Article. .
- Home setting after stroke, facilitators and barriers: a systematic literature review, Health & Social Care in the Community, 2018, Vol. 26, No. 4, E451-E459. Article : refereed. .
- The Importance of the Physical Environment to Support Individualised Care, Part of: Individualized Care - Theory, Measurement, Research and Practice, Springer, 2018. Chapter of book. .
- Staff perceptions of the design of care environments for older people – a qualitative study, 2018. Conference paper : refereed. .
- A qualitative study of assistant nurses’ experiences of palliative care in residential care, Nursing Open, 2018, Vol. 5, No. 4, 527-535. Article : refereed. .
- Design quality in the context of healthcare environments: a scoping review, Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 2017, Vol. 10, No. 4, 136-150. Article : refereed. .
- A comparative study of patients’ activities and interactions in a stroke unit before and after reconstruction – the significance of the built environment, PLoS ONE, 2017, Vol. 12, No. 7. Article : refereed. .
- The case of value-based healthcare for people living with complex long-term conditions, BMC Health Services Research, 2017, Vol. 17, No. 1, 1-6. Article : refereed. .
- A systematic review of the psychometric properties of instruments for assessing the quality of the physical environment in healthcare, Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2017, Vol. 73, No. 12, 2796-2816. Article : refereed. .
- Development and test of a methodology for the investigation of stroke patients’ rehabilitation in home settings, 2017. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Health-promotive ambitions related to building design : The case of Angered Nearby Hospital, ARCH17 : 2017. Conference paper : refereed. .
- The physical environment, activity and interaction in residential care facilities for older people: a comparative case study, Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 2017, Vol. 31, No. 4, 727-738. Article : refereed. .
- Exploring environmental variation in residential care facilities for older people, Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 2017, Vol. 10, No. 2, 49-65. Article : refereed. .
- The association between the physical environment and the well-being of older people in residential care facilities : a multilevel analysis, Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2017, Vol. 73, No. 12, 2942-2952. Article : refereed. .
- Theoretical frameworks used in built environment research – a scoping review, 2017. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Design quality in a healthcare context – time to operationalize the concept, 2016. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Designing Inclusive Architecture : Facilitators and Barriers of the Healthcare Environment for Rehabilitation at Stroke Units, Part of: Designing Around People, Springer London, 2016. Chapter of book. .
- Using of group-modeling in pre-design phase of new healthcare environments : stakeholders experiences, Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 2016, Vol. 9, No. 2, 69-81. Article : refereed. .
- Using modeling as a co-design approach in the planning process of new care environments, Nordic Conference in Nursing Research 2016 : 2016. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Self-reported fatigue and associated factors six years after stroke, PLoS ONE, 2016, Vol. 11, No. 8. Article : refereed. .
- Införandet av öppna lärresurser i sjuksköterskeprogrammet - erfarenheter och reflektioner : Demonstration, 2016. Conference paper. .
- Development of an instrument measuring the quality of residential care facilities for older people, The 23rd Nordic Congress of Gerontology, 19-22 June 2016, in Tampere, Finland : 2016. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Assistant nurses’ experiences and perceptions of palliative care situations in residential care, 2016. Conference paper : refereed. .
- P177 Assistant Nurses’ Experiences and Perceptions of Palliative Care Situations in Residential Care, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 2016, Vol. 52, No. 6. Article : refereed. .
- Nurses’ perceptions of climate and environmental issues : a qualitative study, Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2015, Vol. 71, No. 8, 1883-1891. Article : refereed. .
- Shared-decision making in designing new healthcare environments : ready to take off for improved quality, BMC Health Services Research, 2015, Vol. 15. Article : refereed. .
- Implementation of Open Educational Resources in a nursing programme : experiences and reflections, Conference proceedings : 2015. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Implementation of open educational resources in a nursing programme : experiences and reflections, Open learning, 2015, Vol. 30, No. 3, 252-266. Article : refereed. .
- Teachers view of using Open Educational Recourses (OER) in a nursing programme, NGL 2015, Next Generation Learning Conference, Book of Abstract : 2015. Conference paper. .
- SRE-AIDAH : Integrative ways of residing health and quality of residence, Aalto University publication series ART + DESIGN + ARCHITECTURE, 6/2015 : 2015. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Explorations of urban residential quality : situations of dwelling, ageing and healthcaring. Inquiries of transdisciplinary nature, 2015. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Assessing the physical environment of older people’s residential care facilities: development of the Swedish version of the Sheffield Care Environment Assessment Matrix (S-SCEAM), BMC Geriatrics, 2015, Vol. 15, No. 3, 1-11. Article : refereed. .
- Challenges in the cultural adaptation and validation of an instrument for evaluating residential care environments for older people, 2015. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Evaluating design quality of older people’s residential care facilities., ARCH 14 - International Conference on Research on Health Care Architecture - November 19-21, 2014, Espoo, Finland - Conference Proceedings : 2015. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Residential care facilities for older people : Describing the quality of the physical environment, 2015. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Implementing oral health-care guidelines in long-term-care : the role and support of managers, 2015. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Sustainability – a question for the leadership?, 2014. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Sustainability in nursing : a concept analysis, Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 2014, Vol. 28, No. 2, 381-389. Article : refereed. .
- IMPOER - implementering av öppna lärresurser (OER) i sjuksköterskeprogrammet, Högskolan Dalarna, NU2014, Umeå 8-10 oktober 2014 : 2014. Conference paper. .
- The IMPOERS - Implementation of OER in a nursing program, Conference Abstracts : 2014. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Space planners' perception of an assessment instrument for briefs in the pre-design phase of new healthcare environments, Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 2014, Vol. 8, No. 1, 67-80. Article : refereed. .
- Att ligga steget före : Vikten av tidig planering för att säkra goda vårdmiljöer., Part of: Vårdmiljöns betydelse, Studentlitteratur AB, 2014. Chapter of book. .
- Quality of eLearning – How are we doing and can we do better, NGL 2014, NEXT GENERATION LEARNING CONFERENCE, March 19–20 2014, Dalarna University, Falun, Sweden : 2014. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Lesson learned from Implementation of OER in the nursing program, Dalarna University, Sweden (IMPOERS), 2014. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Att granska kvaliteten på e-lärande med hjälp av evidensbaserade indikatorer, NU2014, Umeå 8-10 oktober : 2014. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Omvårdnadspersonals upplevelser av vård i livets slutskede, 22nd Nordic Congress of Gerontology, Gothenburg, 25-28 May 2014 : 2014. Conference paper. .
- Evaluating design quality in older people's residential care facilities: Adaptation of the Sheffield Care Environment Assessment Matrix (SCEAM) for use in Sweden with focus on linguistic challenges., 2014. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Designing for person-centered care in residential care facilities, 2014. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Care staff's perceptions of older people's care environments, 2014. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Yes we can do Quality in eLearning, Proceedings : The Open and Flexible Higher Education Conference 2013 : 2013. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Designing patient-centered healthcare spaces, 2013. Conference paper : refereed. .
- A person-centered design can support accessibility and equality in residential care facilities, 2013. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Translation and cultural adaptation of an instrument evaluating design quality in residential care facilities, Nordic Advances in Health Care Sciences Research, November 13-14, 2013 in Lund : 2013. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Facilitating designing of a new dementia care environment through group modeling, 2012. Conference paper : refereed. .
- An assessment of briefs used for designing healthcare environments : a survey in Sweden, Construction Management and Economics, 2012, Vol. 30, No. 10, 835-844. Article : refereed. .
- Development of the Content and Quality in Briefs Instrument (CQB-I), Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 2012, Vol. 5, No. 3, 74-88. Article : refereed. .
- Kan man kvalitetssäkra lokalprogram? : En grupp lokalplanerare om användbarheten av ett granskningsinstrument av lokalprogram, 2012. Conference paper : refereed. .
- How to achieve quality in practice-oriented education in an e-learning context, Proceedings: EADTU 25th ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE 2012:The role of open and flexible education inEuropean higher education systems for 2020 : 2012. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Validating a tool for evaluating nursing home environments : Integrating research and expert evidence, IFA 11TH GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON AGEING, 28 May – 1 June 2012 Prague, Czech Republic, Book of Abstracts : 2012. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Att anpassa ett engelskt instrument som mäter designkvalitet på äldreboende till svenska förhållanden : utmaningar och erfarenheter, 2012. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Att översätta och anpassa ett engelskt instrument för bedömning av fysisk miljö på särskilt boende till svenska förhållanden : utmaningar och erfarenheter, 2012. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Assessment of the physical environment - a way to high quality care, 2012. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Questioning context : a set of interdisciplinary questions for investigating contextual factors affecting health decision making, Health Expectations, 2011, Vol. 14, No. 2, 115-132. Article : refereed. .
- Designing sustainable healthcare environments, 19th International Conference on Health Promoting Hospitals and Health Services : 2011. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Designing for person-centered care in older people’s residential facilities, Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 2011, Vol. 23, No. Suppl. 1, 270-. Article : refereed. .
- A review of existing tools for assessing the design quality of healthcare environments, 2011. Conference paper. .
- Evidence-based briefing for sustainable healthcare environments, World Sustainable Building Conference SB11 : 2011. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Design for well-being in older people’s residential environments : Sustainable Design in Finland and Sweden, World Sustainable Building Conference SB11 : 2011. Conference paper : refereed. .
- An audit of the content and quality in briefs for Swedish healthcare spaces, Journal of Facilities Management, 2009, Vol. 7, No. 3, 198-211. Article : refereed. .
- Developing a model of a stroke care process, On-line journal of Nursing Informatics, 2009, Vol. 13, No. 3, 3-34. Article : refereed. .
- Scoping group interventions for suitability in participatory modeling, OR (Operational Research) 51 Annual Conference : 2009. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Using system dynamics for collaborative design : a case study, BMC Health Services Research, 2007, Vol. 7, No. 123. Article : refereed. .
- A dynamic conceptual model of care planning, Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 2007, Vol. 21, No. 4, 530-538. Article : refereed. .
- Modeling of Care Processes. The use of Simulation Models for the Design of Health Care Environments., Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, 2006. Doctoral thesis. .
- The Care planning process : A Case for System Dynamics, 23th International System Dynamics Conferences : 2005. Conference paper : refereed. .
- Models of Care processes – Implications for the Design of New Health Care Environments, EuroFM Conferences : 2004. Conference paper. .
- Staff Retention and Job Satisfaction at a Hospital Clinic – A case study, The 22th International System Dynamics Conferences : 2004. Conference paper. .
- The role for simulation in the design of new health care environments, The 8th International Congress in Nursing Informatics - NI2003 : 2003. Conference paper : refereed. .
- The Health Care Environment, The International Postgraduate Research Conferences : 2003. Conference paper. .
- Satisfaction with information and quality of life in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy. The role of individual differences in information preferences., Cancer Nursing, 2001, Vol. 24, No. 5, 351-356. Article. .
- Oral Health and Quality of life among head and neck cancer or hematological malignancies, Supportive Care in Cancer, 2001, Vol. 9, No. 7, 528-38. Article. .