Jenny Olofsson

Researcher at CEDAR. Working with SHARE on ageing populations. Research focus: living conditions, life strategies, family networks and subjective age.

0000-0003-0725-951X

Contact

jenny.olofsson@umu.se

+46 90 786 70 64

Works as

Research fellow at Centre for Demographic and Aging Research at Umeå University (CEDAR) Section: CEDAR Research

Norra Beteendevetarhuset, 4 tr, Umeå universitet Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

Nearness of adult children: long-term trends and sociodemographic patterns in Sweden

Journal of Population Ageing

Malmberg, Gunnar; Lundholm, Emma; Olofsson, Jenny

Who cares when children are absent?: Help to older people without children nearby

SHARE Working Paper Series, 101-2025

Olofsson, Jenny; Lundholm, Emma; Malmberg, Gunnar

Strict Danes or relaxed Swedes? Comparing health and daily activities in Sweden and Denmark during the Covid-19 pandemic

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, Sage Publications 2025, Vol. 53, (5) : 474-481

Scheel-Hincke, Lasse L.; Fors Connolly, Filip; Olofsson, Jenny; et al.

Do reductions of daily activities mediate the relationship between COVID-19 restrictions and mental ill-health among older persons in Europe?

Aging & Mental Health, Routledge 2024, Vol. 28, (7) : 1058-1065

Fors Connolly, Filip; Olofsson, Jenny; Josefsson, Maria

Sociodemographic factors and adjustment of daily activities during the COVID-19 pandemic – findings from the SHARE Corona Survey

Journal of Aging & Social Policy, Routledge 2023, Vol. 36, (6) : 1544-1566

Olofsson, Jenny; Fors Connolly, Filip; Malmberg, Gunnar; et al.

Two Nordic countries with different approaches to handling the COVID-19 pandemic: a comparison of Sweden and Denmark

Social, health, and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the epidemiological control measures: first results from SHARE Corona Waves 1 and 2, Walter de Gruyter 2023 : 281-290

Scheel-Hincke, Lasse L.; Fors Connolly, Filip; Olofsson, Jenny; et al.

Adjustment of daily activities to restrictions and reported spread of the COVID-19 pandemic across Europe

SHARE Working Papers, 62-2021

Fors Connolly, Filip; Olofsson, Jenny; Malmberg, Gunnar; et al.

Boomerang Behaviour and Emerging Adulthood: Moving Back to the Parental Home and the Parental Neighbourhood in Sweden

European Journal of Population, Springer 2020, Vol. 36, (5) : 919-945

Olofsson, Jenny; Sandow, Erika; Findlay, Allan; et al.

Health disparities in Europe’s ageing population: the role of social network

Global Health Action, Vol. 11, (1)

Olofsson, Jenny; Padyab, Mojgan; Malmberg, Gunnar

The importance of geographical scale in explaining the return migration of young adults to the parental home and to the parental neighbourhood

CPC working papers, 85