Sabya van Elswijk works as PhD researcher and holds a master in Medical Anthropology and Sociology and works as consultant specialized in building collaborations between long term care organizations. For her master research she wrote an ethnography based on fieldwork in a Dutch care home about social aspects of dementia. She has lived in many different countries around the world, where she studied the local significance of being old
and ways of caring for the elderly however possible.

Her professional background was formed in long-term care, and she is a specialist in themes such as care in networks, dementia, welfare state, care system, education and labour market. In addition she works in the social domain on a local, regional and national level. At the University of Amsterdam Sabya is an a PhD candidate in the anthropology of Health, Body and Care. Her research focus on how collaboration on a regional level can contribute to improvements in long-term care.

Other links

• LeTs-Care
• Common Eye

Research methods

• Qualitative methods
• Ethnography
• In-depth interviews
• Focus groups
• Policy analysis
• Participant observation
• Action research

Current research projects

• The European LeTs-Care project is a comparative research project with the objective to identify and study solutions in the field of long-term care and learn from those. 

Current cooperation

• The LeTs Care research is conducted in cooperation with elderly care organizations in North-Holland North, respresented by Omring and Tellus. Alzheimer Nederland is also a partner in this research.