Title: The hierarchy of healthcare – power and status in a rehabilitation team for home-living elderly.Background: An aging population has put pressure on the Nordic Welfare State, and the difficulties in recruiting care work professionals has put in place massive strain on the state’s ability to provide quality eldercare. In 2008, Fredericia Municipality invented the concept of Everyday Rehabilitation (Hverdagsrehabilitering), where health professionals of various professions work together in helping the elderly stay active. This rehabilitation for the home-living elderly is being prioritized in the municipalities, in the hope of reducing health care expenses and helping the elderly remain self-sufficient late in life. This relatively new way of thinking rehabilitation in every aspect of the life of elderly, stands in contrast to the traditional approach of providing care and compensatory help for the elderly.Objective: The aim of his thesis is to examine what importance it has for health care professionals, to be working in a rehabilitation team for home-living elderly, in regard to their professional identities and interprofessional collaboration. We thereby seek to investigate what power and status is achieved by the health professionals internally in the team, as well as externally, regarding the traditional health care workers in the social care.Methodology: The study design of this thesis is a case study. The informant group consists of a nurse, an occupational therapist and two care assistants all working in the same municipality. We use semi-structured interviews and a focus group interview as our methodological approach. As our theoretical foundation, we use Bourdieu’s theory about field, capital, and habitus, and Kristian Larsen's understanding of Bourdieu's concepts in a health context. Finally, we use Sine Lehn-Christiansen’s view on interprofessional collaboration and professional identity. We used this theoretical foundation to analyze our findings in the empirical study.Conclusion: The occupational therapists have the highest status in the rehabilitating team, because of their education and their rehabilitating approach. Overall, their professional identity does not change in working with rehabilitation. The care assistants adapt the rehabilitating views of the occupational therapist, and gain status by moving farther away from their traditional approach of compensating care work. The nurses are challenged in the rehabilitating work, where they have difficulties with finding their place in the rehabilitating team. The interprofessional collaboration of the team with the traditional care unit is made difficult by the different views of the two units on care work vs. rehabilitation work and their different working conditions, where the rehabilitations unit has favorable working terms.Keywords: rehabilitation, home care, professional identity, interprofessional collaboration, working status.