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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 243 avhandlingar innehållade orden home help.

1. 1. Ergonomics at Home : Design for Safe Living and Home Care

   Författare :Jenny Hjalmarson; Tore Johan Larsson; Stefan Lundberg; Lars Nyberg; KTH; []
   Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Ergonomics; aging; work posture; four-wheeled walker; home care worker; living at home; accessibility;

   Sammanfattning : The home should represent safety and security for the person who lives there, and this is an important factor for independence and autonomy in very old age. With aging populations, the needs for long-term care increase, care provided by spouses and/or from the growing home care sector. Injuries among these groups are common. LÄS MER

3. 2. Home alone : sibling caretakers in León, Nicaragua

   Författare :Kjerstin Dahlblom; Lars Dahlgren; Rodolfo Peña; Bengt Höjer; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; sibling caretakers; life skills; school absenteeism; ethnographic approach; children’s participation; children’s rights; developing country; Nicaragua; Public health science; Folkhälsovetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : Sibling caretaking, although common across time and cultures, has not been well researched from the carer’s point of view. In Nicaragua, ranked as one of the poorest countries in the Americas, sibling caretaking is common. LÄS MER

4. 3. PARTICIPATION IN NEEDS ASSESSMENT OF OLDER PEOPLE PRIOR TO PUBLIC HOME HELP Older persons', their family members', and assessing home help officers' experiences

   Författare :Ann-Christin Janlöv; Institutionen för hälsovetenskaper; []
   Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Medicin människa och djur ; age 75 and older; home help officer care manager; needs assessment; family participation; experience; Medicine human and vertebrates ; public home help; transition;

   Sammanfattning : Aim: The overall aim of this thesis was to illuminate older persons' experience of becoming in need of public home help and their family members' experience of this situation. Further, the aim was to illuminate experiences of participation in the needs assessment process of older people and influence on decisions about public home help from the perspective of older needs-assessed persons, their family members, assessing home help officers and external home help officers. LÄS MER

5. 4. Omsorgsarbete i omvandling : Genus, klass och etnicitet inom hemtjänsten

   Författare :Renita Sörensdotter; Helena Wulff; Eva Reimers; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :Gender; heteronormativity; homosociality; home helpers; caring; ethnicity; class; gender equality; emotional labour; joking; the body; Social Anthropology; socialantropologi;

   Sammanfattning : Hemtjänstyrket är ett yrke i förändring. Arbetet har allt sedan hemtjänsten startade sin verksamhet 1950 framför allt utförts av vita svenska medelålders kvinnor med bakgrund i arbetarklassen. De som arbetar inom hemtjänsten idag har dock varierande ursprung, kön, klassbakgrund och ålder. LÄS MER

7. 5. Caring and relations : On emotional interaction in home help

   Författare :Bengt Ingvad; Socialhögskolan; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology of labour; psychological constructions; handling of conflicts; subordination; adaptation; interdependence; care-giving work; home help services; social acts; expectations; self; interpersonal relations; emotional interaction; sociology of enterprise; Social problems and welfare; national insurance; Arbetslivssociologi; företagssociologi; Sociala problem; social välfärd; socialförsäkring;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines the interaction between municipal home-helpers and care re-cipients from a social psychological perspective. One of the starting points is a critique of some classical works in the caring science inspired by women’s studies for not taking into consideration that care-giving work constitutes social interaction. LÄS MER