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BJSW Advance Access originally published online on September 12, 2005
British Journal of Social Work 2005 35(8):1393-1409; doi:10.1093/bjsw/bch228
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Association of Social Workers. All rights reserved.

Recognizing But Not Acknowledging: On Using Research Information in Social Work with Elderly People Suffering from Dementia

Ulla Melin Emilsson

Ulla Melin Emilsson is a psychologist, graduate in social work and supervision, with a Masters degree in Social Sciences and a Ph.D. in Social Work. She works as a Senior lecturer, teaching psychology and social psychology at the School of Social Work, Lund University in Sweden. Dr Melin Emilsson’s two main research areas are social work with elderly people suffering from dementia and supervision as pedagogy and support, in social work practice as well as in postgraduate education.

Correspondence to Ulla Melin Emilsson, Ph.D., Lund University, School of Social Work, Box 23, 221 00 Lund, Sweden. E-mail: Ulla.MelinEmilsson{at}soch.lu.se

The gap between theory and practice in social work continues to be great, and research results seem to live a life of their own, far from the field they were intended to improve. This article considers research information as a useful contribution to the practice of social work with elderly demented people and to qualitative methods used in the area of social scientific research. Arising out of a project aimed at studying the usefulness of research information through an interactive exercise within focus groups, the author discusses how the results of research can be used to improve practice. When the researchers’ theoretical- oriented perspectives meet with the practitioners’ action-oriented perspectives, two different models enrich each other in the process of developing integrated knowledge.

Keywords: research information, social work with elderly people with dementia, focus groups, qualitative methods


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