Sökning: "Occupational deprivation"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 12 avhandlingar innehållade orden Occupational deprivation.
1. Daily occupations among asylum seekers- Experience, performance and perception
Sammanfattning : Asylum seekers often find themselves in a situation where the structure and content of daily occupations have been disrupted and they might have limited access to paid work and education. Studies have shown that asylum seekers experience occupational depri- vation and a change in daily occupations which might even influence their identity. LÄS MER
2. Everday life while aging with a traumatic spinal cord injury
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis was to develop knowledge of participation ineveryday life while aging with a traumatic spinal cord injury [SCI]. This thesis hadan explorative approach, with a mixed method design: two with a quantitativemethod and two with a qualitative method. LÄS MER
3. Playground accessibility and usability for children with disabilities : experiences of children, parents and professionals
Sammanfattning : Studies have identified barriers in the physical environment causing restricted participation in play activities for children with disabilities. Therefore, was the overall aim of this thesis to identify and explore aspects of playground accessibility and usability for children with disabilities based on the experiences of children, parents and professionals. LÄS MER
4. The participation of older people with and without dementia in public space, through the lens of everyday technology use
Sammanfattning : Participation in activities and places within public space has been linked to numerous health benefits and yet, little is known about participation among older people with and without dementia. Insights about participation in activities and places within public space can contribute to the somewhat ambiguous definition of participation, as “involvement in a life situation”, by acknowledging the complexity and interrelatedness of subjective, social, contextual, temporal, and technological aspects of participation. LÄS MER
5. Essays on Inequality, Insolvency and Innovation
Sammanfattning : First Impressions Last – Does Inequality Increase Status Consumption and Household Debt? (with Elin Molin): Recent decades have seen an increase in income inequality and household debt-to-GDP ratios in many countries, and several studies have suggested that higher income inequality spurs borrowing among nonrich households through their preference to "Keep up with the Joneses". In this paper, we show that standard Keeping up with the Joneses utility functions cannot generate this relationship unless one imposes the implausible assumption that the rich are more impatient than the nonrich. LÄS MER