Petra Ulmanen, PhD in Social Work, is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Work, Stockholm University. Her main research interests concern social care, social policy and gender, and she has focused on long-term care and informal care for older persons. She has explored the changing roles of the state, the family and the market in providing care for older people and the social and economic consequences of providing informal care. Her current research concerns family members’ experiences of and contacts with health and social care services, and the managerial caregiving role they often assume to make care services meet the needs at hand. She is also exploring the consequences of the de-institutionalisation of Swedish eldercare for older people and their family members.