Anastasia Silverglow
Senior Lecturer
Learning and Leadership for Health Care ProfessionalsAbout Anastasia Silverglow
Anastasia is a specialist nurse in primary health care and elderly care, and a senior lecturer.
Research
Anastasia obtained her PhD in 2023, with a dissertation focused on safe care at home for frail older persons. This work laid the foundation for her research interest in patient participation in care. Her current research focuses on self-care and the quality of continence care, both from the perspectives of older persons receiving care either at home or in residential care facilities. She is a member of the ACHIEVE research group.
Ongoing research projects
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Integrated care through increased participation of older persons – Patient-safe self-care at home. This project aims to explore opportunities and barriers to patient-safe self-care from the perspectives of older persons, their relatives, and municipal health and social care staff. The project also aims to develop and evaluate a methodological support tool to facilitate municipal care staff in supporting safe self-care among older persons in the home setting.
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A qualitative evaluation of continence care in home-based care and residential care settings from the perspective of older women. This project aims to explore the meaning of high-quality continence care from the perspective of care recipients.
Teaching
Anastasia teaches in the nursing programme, the radiography programme, the programme for internationally educated nurses from outside the EU/EEA and Switzerland (KUSSK), and the postgraduate programme in specialist nursing with a specialisation in district nursing. She supervises bachelor's theses and independent projects at the master’s level as well as assesses students’ professional development during their clinical practice within municipal health care organizations.
Keywords
Safe care, Home-based care, Frail older persons, Person-centred care, Continence care, Self-care