Sökning: "´demens"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 85 avhandlingar innehållade ordet ´demens.
1. Välbefinnande och demens : Aspekter på välbefinnande hos äldre personer med måttlig till svår demens
Sammanfattning : Personer som lever med demenssjukdom såväl som mentalt friska människor behöver uppleva välbefinnande. Ett viktigt mål i vården och omsorgen av personer med demens är därför att hitta vägar för att försöka främja välbefinnande hos personen. LÄS MER
2. Dementia and learning : The use of tablet computers in joint activities
Sammanfattning : Living with dementia is generally associated with terms such as loss, confusion, and dependency; not development, agency and collaboration. Contributing to a growing body of research that acknowledges the remaining abilities of people living with dementia, and how they cope with challenges in their everyday lives, this thesis concerns a topic habitually framed by negative presumptions, namely learning. LÄS MER
3. Towards feminist health empowerment for self-testing apps : testing for dementia
Sammanfattning : Health empowerment, the idea to enable people to assume more control over their health decisions, has been a buzzword in health care organisation and has recently received even more attention through the popularisation of mobile health (mHealth) apps. One form of mHealth are self-testing apps, which offer users to test themselves for medical conditions as severe as dementia and Parkinson’s disease. LÄS MER
4. Facing dementia as a we : Investigating couples’ challenges and communicative strategies for managing dementia
Sammanfattning : We live longer than ever before, which means that we also live longer with disorders such as those connected with dementia. Most people diagnosed with dementia live in ordinary housing for a long time, relying on their social network for support, mainly involving spouses or adult children. LÄS MER
5. People living with dementia using eldercare in Sweden
Sammanfattning : Dementia is a major public health concern. Due to the progressive nature of the disease, people living with dementia (PlwD) may experience challenges at different stages of dementia deriving from functional, cognitive, and communicative disabilities and as a consequence experience restriction in performing everyday tasks. LÄS MER