The aim of this study is to examine what working methods and active measures there are tomanage the ethnic discrimination of care staff working within elderly care, and how the unitmanager of nursing homes and home care in Kalmar county uses them. This objective is tocreate a deeper understanding of how the unit managers work to manage ethnic discriminationin elderly care. This study was done with a qualitative research method performed with semi-structured interviews where unit managers in their own words described their experiences oftheir complex work, their professional discretion and the occurrence of ethnic discriminationin the working place. The results show that unit managers identify different types of ethnicdiscrimination such as derogatory comments and a refusal to receive help from staff born inother countries than Sweden. The unit managers perception of their professional discretionvaries. Factors such as budget, organizational conditions, the personality of the unit managersand working experience can affect the management of ethnic discrimination of the care staffby the caretakers. Through the interviews, we have also observed the unit manager’spercieved lack of clear guidelines and aids that could support them in dealing with ethnicdiscrimination in their workplace. This also means that it becomes difficult to workpreventively to counteract ethnic discrimination. Unit managers can thus find their ownstrategies and working methods to support their staff and strengthen individuals. The unitmanagers have been shown to use methods such as increased participation and conversationswith the vulnerable person and the elderly, which are strongly linked to empowerment.