Lea Graff

Senior Research Analyst, MSc in Social Work, PhD in Social Work and Social Policy

  • The Elderly
  • Health Care
  • The Social Sector

Key Expertise:

  • Care,
  • Rehabilitation,
  • Professionals,
  • Organization,
  • Working conditions,
  • Civil society,
  • Reablement,
  • Eldercare,
  • Nursing homes,
  • Restorative care,
  • Home care,
  • Marketization,
  • Governance
Lea Graff is Senior Research Analyst with more than ten years experience with researching public eldercare. She has extensive knowledge on the governance, organization and provision of eldercare in Denmark as well as in the other Nordic countries. Her primary research field is local health and social care and reablement provision. Other areas of interests are working conditions and quality in nursing homes and consumer choice in long-term care.   

Lea Graff studies local health and social care provision for older adults in Denmark as well as in the other Nordic countries. She primarily focus on home-based care and reablement from a bottom-up perspective taking its starting point in the experiences and daily lives of care workers and clients. She is especially interested in how structural and organizational frameworks affect care professionals' working conditions, daily work, and possibilities to provide quality care, as well as the lives and experiences of care clients.   

Lea works with a wide range of qualitative data and ethnographic approaches, e.g. rapid site-switching ethnography, case studies, intervies and observations, often combined with policy- and legislation analysis, document analysis etc. 

Lea holds a MsC in social work and a PhD in Social Policy and Social Work from Oslo Metropolitan University. She has studied eldercare and reablement since 2012 and has been employed at KORA (now VIVE) since 2016.  

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