Because Sweden has socialized healthcare, it falls to municipalities and local government to provide elder care services for their citizens. Much of the conflict in the novel, however, has to do with Sweden's system of caring for elderly people like Rune. All of this is to say that the historical event of greatest importance to Ove is not one event, but rather the sum of all the changes and innovations that have made up the tide of modernization, right down to the invention of the iPad. Iranian immigrants like Parvaneh make up nearly 2% of the Swedish population, and the Swedish parliament legalized same-sex marriage in May of 2009. Ove gripes about a number of things that are marks of changing times in Sweden: for instance, although Ove finds debit cards ridiculous, they're a far more common form of payment than cash in Sweden, and young people in particular tend to avoid cash.
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