Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur olika yrkeskategorier inom äldreomsorgen arbetar med HBTQ-frågor. Studien baseras på kvalitativa intervjuer och inkluderar fem informanter med olika arbetsuppgifter inom äldreomsorgen. Resultaten från intervjuerna har analyserats utifrån olika teman i en intervjuguide, med hjälp av queerteorin. Intervjuernas resultat visar att HBTQ-frågor inte blir belysta som enskilda frågor, men skulle vid behov kunna diskuteras under mångfalds- och jämlikhetsfrågor. Informanterna beskrev vikten av ett gott bemötande, oavsett vilken läggning brukaren hade. Samtliga informanter hade uppmärksammat en avsexualisering av äldre individer. De beskrev även ett antagande om att fyrtiotalister kommer att vara en generation med högre krav på att kunna vara öppen med sin sexuella läggning. Studien visar även att samtliga yrkeskategorier upplever att det i framtiden kommer finnas behov av att belysa HBTQ-frågan, samt att implementera denna i utbildningar såsom i nuvarande undersköterskeutbildningen. / The purpose of this study is to investigate how various professionals in eldercare are working with LGBT issues. The study is based on qualitative interviews and includes five informants with different tasks in eldercare. Interview results were analyzed based on various themes in an interview guide, using queer theory. The results show that LGBT issues are not illuminated as individual issues, but could if necessary be discussed in diversity and equality issues. The informants described the importance of good treatment, no matter what sexual orientation the patient had. All informants had noticed a desexualization of older individuals. They also described an assumption that people born in the 1940´s will be a generation with higher requirements to be able to be open with their sexual orientation. The study also shows that all professions are experiencing that, in the future, there will be a need to lift the LGBT issue and to implement it in education programs.

Natural and predictable changes in consumer needs often require the development of new products. Providing solutions that anticipate, account for, and allow for these changes over time is a significant challenge to manufacturers and design engineers. Products that adapt to these changes through the addition of modules reduce production costs through product commonality and provide a set of products that cater to customization and adaptation. In this thesis, a multiobjective optimization design method using s-Pareto frontiers – sets of non-dominated designs from disparate design models - is developed and used to identify a set of optimal adaptive product designs that satisfy changing consumer needs. The novel intent of the method is to design a product that adapts to changing consumer needs by moving from one location on the s-Pareto frontier to another through the addition of a module and/or reconfiguration. The six-step method is described as follows: (A) Characterize the multiobjective design space. (B) Identify the anticipated regions of interest within the search space based on predicted future needs. (C) Identify the platform design variables that minimize the performance losses due to commonality across the anticipated regions of interest. (D) Assemble the s-Pareto frontier within each region of interest. (E) Determine the values of all design variables for the optimal product design in each region of interest by multiobjective optimization. (F) Identify the module design variables, and identify the platform and module designs by constrained module design. An example of the design of a simple unmanned air vehicle is used to demonstrate application of the method for a single Pareto frontier case. The design of a manual irrigation pump is used to demonstrate application of the method for a s-Pareto frontier case. In addition, these examples show the ability of the method to design a product that adapts to changing consumer needs by traversing the s-Pareto frontier.