Sökning: "Home care delivery"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 44 avhandlingar innehållade orden Home care delivery.
1. Specialized palliative home care teams : Complementary perspectives of team functions and influences on patients and families
Sammanfattning : Persons with life-threatening illness are increasingly being cared for and dying at home. Palliative care strives to cater to multiple dimensions such as physical, psychosocial and spiritual or existential, and meeting these needs in patients and families requires multiple competencies. LÄS MER
2. Harnessing togetherness : perceptions of loneliness and promotion of social participation in the home care context
Sammanfattning : Introduction: It is well known that older adults have a higher risk for loneliness, which is detrimental to health. Home care in Sweden has a responsibility to address social needs, but systematic approaches are lacking and there is a know–do gap. LÄS MER
3. Older adults' conceptions of home and experiences of living with long-term musculoskeletal pain at home
Sammanfattning : Worldwide there are an increasing number of older adults, many of whom desire to age in place, remaining at home. This makes home increasingly important for health care delivery. Long-term musculoskeletal pain often accompanies old age and is one of the most prevailing and disabling health problems among community dwelling older adults. LÄS MER
4. Implementation of knowledge-based palliative care at nursing homes: The professionals' perspective
Sammanfattning : Dying in older persons precedes often by a prolonged period of frailty and multimorbidity. The global increase in the aged population means more death at an older age and highlights the need to integrate palliative care in elderly care. LÄS MER
5. Integrity promoting care of demented patients
Sammanfattning : The purpose of the thesis was to investigate if integrity promoting care improves functions in demented patients over time. The Erikson (1982) theory of ”eight stages of man” was used as a basis for training of staff in a three-month intervention study (I-VI) at a nursing home ward. LÄS MER