Search for dissertations about: "Britt Ebbeskog"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Britt Ebbeskog.

2. 1. Elderly patients with slow-healing leg ulcers : an embodied suffering

   Author : Britt Ebbeskog; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Communion; dressing change; elderly care; embodiment; intervention; lived experiences; phenomenological-hermeneutic; prevalence; nursing care; slow-healing wound; suffering and venous leg ulcer.;

   Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate leg and foot ulcer patients, from the perspective of a population in a specific urban area, and to illuminate these individual patients' lived experience of living with slow-healing venous leg ulcers. Study (I) was a survey of chronic leg and foot ulcers and study (II) was a follow-up study of the wound healing rate and an intervention study. READ MORE

4. 2. "Being in the present" : the meaning of the interaction between older persons with Alzheimer's disease and a therapy dog

   Author : Anna Swall; Ingegerd Fagerberg; Carina Lundh Hagelin; Britt Ebbeskog; David Edvardsson; Sophiahemmet Högskola; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Animal-assisted therapy; Alzheimer s disease; Descriptive statistics; Lifeworld; Memories; Person-centred care; Phenomenological hermeneutics; Therapy dog; Animal-assisted therapy;

   Abstract : The number of persons with Alzheimer’s disease is increasing world-wide and the disease affects the persons, their families, the health care system and the economy within society worldwide. The symptoms and behaviours caused by Alzheimer’ disease may be difficult to manage for the person and their caregivers. READ MORE