Sökning: "Gerontological care"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 19 avhandlingar innehållade orden Gerontological care.
1. Negotiating needs : Processing older persons as home care recipients in gerontological social work practices
Sammanfattning : The study concerns the needs assessment processes that older persons undergo to gain access to home care. The participation of older persons, their relatives and municipal care managers was studied from a communicative perspective. The assessment meetings functions as formal problem-solving events. LÄS MER
2. Gerotranscendence from a Nursing Perspective – from Theory to Implementation
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of the present thesis was to gain further knowledge about the nursing theoretical basis of care of older people, to translate the theory of gerotranscendence into practical guidelines, and to implement the theory and guidelines in practical settings.Study I comprised a literature search and a review with qualitative analysis of nursing theories. LÄS MER
3. Omsorgsfylld landsbygd : Rumsliga perspektiv på åldrande och omsorg på den svenska landsbygden
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to study the intersection of rural areas, ageing and care. It is based on interviews with elderly and caregivers carried out in the municipality of Heby in the middle of Sweden. LÄS MER
4. Understanding "successful aging" : Cultural and migratory perspectives
Sammanfattning : This dissertation aims to contribute to the rectification of the atheoretization that characterizes the study of aging and diversity through the formulation and preliminary empirical testing of a culturally-relevant theoretical framework for the study of successful aging. Inspired by the Kluckhohnian approach to the study of cultural variation, the framework hereby proposed posits that there is congruence between the understandings of successful aging that people uphold and the value orientations that they prefer in regards to four topics: man-nature, time, activity and relational. LÄS MER
5. Weaving Translocal Lives, Bridging Ageing Experiences : Turkish-born Women in Sweden
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores Turkish-born women’s experiences of ageing in a translocal setting by looking into the narratives of women who lived in Sweden for 40 years on average. It is based on semi-structured in-depth interviews with 20 Turkish-born women who are between the ages 60 and 78. LÄS MER