Research
Through my research, I aim to highlight the resources people with dementia possess and how healthcare personnel can support these resources. My PhD-project focuses on the processes of pain management in people with dementia living in nursing homes. Pain is a common symptom in this target group. As pain is a subjective experience, self-reporting is the gold standard of assessment methods. This highlights the importance of supporting people with dementia in communicating their experiences of pain. The aim of the project is two folded: (1) To generate new knowledge and perspectives about how people with dementia express pain, and how these expressions can be integrated in pain management in nursing homes and (2) bring about change through the development of an intervention with the aim to safeguard these processes.
Teaching
I teach systematic clinical examination and assessment, and dementia-, palliative-, and advanced geriatric care
Collaboration
My PhD-project is part of a collaboration between Lovisenberg Diaconal University College in Norway and Karlstad University in Sweden as well as the research group Continuity and Quality of Care in Nursing (CARE) at Lovisenberg Diaconal University College. For more information see: https://ldh.no/forskning/forskningsgrupper/continuity-for-quality-of-care-and-health
Related info
As part of my PhD studies, I am a student member at the European Academy of Nursing Science (EANS), and I attend the EANS summer school. My third and final year will be 2025, where I will be presenting parts of my project as a poster during the annual summer conference in Mataro Spain. https://www.eansnursing.eu/page/summer-school-program
Selected publications
Overen, C. K., Larsson, M., Hummelvoll Hillestad, A., Karlsson, I., & Eriksen, S. (2025). The process of pain assessment in people with dementia living in nursing homes: a scoping review. Palliative Care and Social Practice, 19, 26323524241308589.
Overen, C. K., Larsson, M., Hillestad, A. H., & Eriksen, S. (2022). Process of pain assessment in people with dementia living in nursing homes: a scoping review protocol. BMJ Open, 12(9), e063230.
UNDER PEER REVIEW
Overen, C. K., Eriksen, S., Larsson, M., Hummelvoll Hillestad, A. (2025). The process of pain assessment in people with dementia living in nursing homes: an focused etnographic study. SAGE Dementia.
Other
Contact information:
Caroline Kreppen Overen, RN, MNSc, PhD-Student
Email: caroline.kreppen.overen@ldh.no or caroline.overen@kau.se
Phone: +47 932 47 819
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2270-4557
Research gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Caroline-Overen