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Carin Lennartsson is Senior Lecturer in Social Gerontology at the Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, and serves as Director and Deputy Head of the Aging Research Center (ARC) in Stockholm. She has been affiliated with ARC since 2004 and was previously a Junior Lecturer at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, where she earned her PhD in Sociology and was appointed Associate Professor (Docent) in 2009.
Education
- PhD in Sociology – Stockholm University
- Docent (Associate Professor) in Sociology – Stockholm University, 2009
Research Focus
Her research integrates sociological and public-health perspectives on ageing, concentrating on:
- health status and health changes in late life;
- intergenerational family transfers of time and money;
- health inequalities and social exclusion;
- loneliness and social participation;
- consequences of extending working life and raising pension ages;
- methodological challenges in studying the oldest-old.
She is Principal Investigator of the longitudinal, nationally representative SWEOLD panel study and leads several large programme grants on ageing, loneliness and inequality funded by the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE).
Scientific Recognition
Lennartsson has published extensively in leading gerontology, epidemiology and social-policy journals. Her work is characterised by rigorous use of longitudinal register and survey data, and she collaborates in international consortia such as TRILL (Inequalities in Ageing Well) and REALM (Research Programme on Ageing, Loneliness and Mental Health).
Doctoral Supervision & Mentoring
She currently supervises doctoral students including Isabelle von Saenger, whose 2025 thesis examines care and financial support in ageing families. The Social Gerontology research group at ARC hosts multiple PhD candidates and post-doctoral researchers working on projects related to inequalities, loneliness, health literacy and integrated care.
Labs & Teams
Lennartsson heads the Social Gerontology – Carin Lennartsson group within ARC. The group is organised around three thematic pillars:
- Inequalities of Ageing
- Loneliness and Social Relationships
- Health Literacy and Integrated Care
These teams utilise data from SWEOLD, Swedish national registers, and Nordic collaborations to inform evidence-based policy and practice for older populations.
