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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 13 avhandlingar innehållade orden Ingrid Hellström.
1. Exploring 'couplehood' in dementia : A constructivist grounded theory study
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis is to gain a better understanding how people with dementia and their spouses experience dementia over time, especially the impact it has on their inter-personal relationships and patterns of everyday life. Data were collected using separate semi-structured interviews with 20 persons with dementia and their spouses of 6 monthly intervals over an 18-months period (132 interviews in total), and analysed using constructivist grounded theory. LÄS MER
2. “Doing things together” : Towards a health promoting approach to couples’ relationships and everyday life in dementia
Sammanfattning : Background: Most people with dementia live in their own homes, often together with their partners, who become informal caregivers. Relationship quality and sense of couplehood can be threatened as a result of the transition from a mutually interdependent relationship to a caregiver-care-receiver relationship. LÄS MER
3. Me-ness and we-ness in a modified everyday life close to death at home
Sammanfattning : The overarching aim of this thesis was to describe how family members experienced everyday life with life-threatening illness close to death, with focus on self-image and identity. The thesis comprises four papers, each with a specific aim to illuminate various aspects of the phenomenon under study. LÄS MER
4. Symptom burden among people with chronic disease
Sammanfattning : Introduction: Chronic diseases tend to increase with old age. Older people with chronic disease are commonly suffering from conditions which produce a multiplicity of symptoms and a decreased health-related quality of life. LÄS MER
5. 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
