Marie is a PhD student at the Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet. Her main supervisor is Lena Dahlberg and her co-supervisors are Kevin McKee and Sandra Torres. The focus of Marie’s doctoral work is to identify what the older care recipients consider to be the most important core values in social care, the main characteristics of the care they receive, their goal for social care and development of an instrument for the assessment of core values. Marie works part-time as a lecturer at Dalarna University.