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Visar resultat 26 - 30 av 38 avhandlingar innehållade orden care of persons with disabilities.

1. 26. Äldre personers dagliga liv och betydelsen av dagrehabilitering

   Författare :Anita Tollén; Kitty Kamwendo; Ann-Britt Ivarsson; Ewa Wressle; Örebro universitet; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; aged; everyday life; day care; rehabilitation; community-based; outcomes; goal attainment; Vårdvetenskap; Nursing Science;

   Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis was to study elderly persons’ everyday life and the benefits of community-based day care rehabilitation (DCR). Further aims were to describe everyday life as experienced by elderly persons eligible for DCR and what they expected to gain from attending DCR. LÄS MER

3. 27. Long-Term Ongoing Structured Support in Early Stage of Dementia: A Family Affair

   Författare :Annika Kjällman Alm; Ove Hellzen; Karl-Gustav Norbergh; Annica Kihlgren; Mittuniversitetet; []
   Nyckelord :Dementia; Next of kin; Relationships; Support group;

   Sammanfattning : Demenssjukdomar drabbar mer än 35 miljoner människor världen över, en summa som kommer att fördubblas vart tjugonde år.   Demens är en global störning av intellektuella funktioner: förmågan att minnas försämras, och förmågor som att orientera sig i tid och rum, språklig förmåga, tankeprocesser som att gå från tanke till handling, problemlösande, utföra saker praktiskt och känna igen föremål. LÄS MER

4. 28. Villkorat vuxenskap : Levd erfarenhet av intellektuellt funktionshinder, kön och ålder

   Författare :Veronica Lövgren; Lennart Sauer; Hildur Kalman; Per Koren Solvang; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Intellectual disability; age; gender; social categorisation; hermeneutical resources; lived experience; structurally conditioned adulthood; Intellektuellt funktionshinder; ålder; kön; vuxenskap; social kategorisering; hermeneutiska resurser;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to explore and analyse lived experience of social categorisations such as intellectual disability, gender and age. The following overarching questions will direct the focus of the thesis, on how 13 middle-aged (aged 38-60 years) women and men who receive disability services according to the Act (1993:387) concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments (LSS), describe their everyday life practices:- In what way(s) are the social categorisations disability, gender, and age expressed in the interviews? How do the participants relate their lived experience of the social categorisation in relation to arenas such as work, family, and leisure time? How can this lived experience be understood in relation to the structures and conditions that form the institutions within the disability services?With a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach, the thesis is based on repeated audio- and video-recorded qualitative semi-structured interviews and field visits. LÄS MER

5. 29. Health in later life: A nursing perspective

   Författare :Ariel Almevall; Karin Zingmark; Päivi Juuso; Catharina Melander; Annica Kihlgren; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Aging Population; Home Care Services; Self-Rated Health; Geriatric Nursing; Nurse-Patient Relationship; Health; Nursing; Omvårdnad;

   Sammanfattning : The ongoing demographic shift towards an older population calls for a corresponding shift to a proactive approach, aiming for health and well-being in old age. This dissertation addresses the need for increased knowledge about health in the context of aging at home. LÄS MER

7. 30. Local public expenditure : Equality, quality and growth

   Författare :Emelie Värja; Linda Andersson; Lars Hultkrantz; Niklas Jakobsson; Örebro universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sports; growth; spatial econometrics; day activity service programs; intellectual disabilities; regional differences; local expenditure; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : The focus of this dissertation is local government expenditure, where growth, quality, and equality is in the center of attention Essay 1: Sports and Local Growth in Sweden: Is a Sports Team Good for Local Economic Growth? The purpose of Essay 1 is to analyzethe effect of professional sports on the municipality’s tax base. I find no indications of a positive effect on the growth rate of per capita income from having a team in the top series. LÄS MER