Search for dissertations about: "dignity"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 92 swedish dissertations containing the word dignity.

  2. 6. Upholding Older Adults' Innate and Inherent Dignity within a Caring Context

    Author : Ingrid Randers; Anne-Cathrine Mattiasson; Mona Kihlgren; Sophiahemmet Högskola; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Autonomy; Integrity; Dignity; Geriatric health care; Cognitively intact patients; Teaching ethics; An activating instructional approach; Caring sciences; Vårdvetenskap; Autonomy; integrity; dignity; geriatric health care; cognitively intact patients; teaching ethics; an activating instructional approach;

    Abstract : In the ethical ideals of autonomy and integrity reducing the level of abstraction is necessary in order to more easily be able to follow them in every day care practices. This is especially true concerning the effort of upholding older adult patients dignity. READ MORE

  4. 7. Promoting living in dignity and with a sense of well-being among older people living in residential facilities – older people’s perspective

    Author : Charlotte Roos; Maria Engström; Bernice Skytt; Barbro Wadensten; Marit Silén; Högskolan i Gävle; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Dignity; empowerment; life satisfaction; older people; person-centered climate; residential facilities; Swedish national fundamental values; well-being; Health-Promoting Work; Hälsofrämjande arbete;

    Abstract : The Swedish national fundamental values state that care of older people who are living in residential facilities should ensure that they live in dignity and with a sense of well-being. The overall aim of this licentiate thesis was to study, from older residents’ perspective, the effects of a caregiver intervention intended to put the Swedish national fundamental values into practice and to describe residents’ perceptions of what promotes the values: living in dignity and having a sense of well-being. READ MORE

  5. 8. Patients' Conceptions of Integrity within Health Care Illuminated from a Gender and a Personal Space Boundary Perspective

    Author : Ingrid Widäng; Britt-Marie Ternestedt; Jönköping University; []
    Keywords : Health services research; confidence; dignity; female patient; gender; health care; integrity; maintaining the self; male patient; personal space boundary; phenomenography; self-respect; Hälso- och sjukvårdsforskning;

    Abstract : The aims of this licentiate thesis were to explore and describe female and male patients’ conceptions of integrity within health care and to illuminate the conceptions from a gender as well as a personal space boundary perspective. A qualitative design with a phenomenographic approach was used. READ MORE

  6. 9. Fragile identities, patched-up worlds : Dementia and meaning-making in social interaction

    Author : Linda Örulv; Lars-Christer Hydén; Nina Nikku; Staffan Josephsson; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Alzheimer’s disease; communication; confabulation; context; continuity; dignity; disorientation; ethnographic methods; ethnography; identity; life history; life story; meaning; microethics; narrative; progressive dementia diseases; sense-making; social interaction; storytelling; vascular dementia; Alzheimers sjukdom; berättande; desorientering; etnografiska metoder; identitet; kommunikation; konfabulering; kontext; kontinuitet; livsberättelse; mening; mikroetik; narrativ; progressiva demenssjukdomar; samspel; social interaktion; vaskulärdemens; värdighet; Human communication; Kommunikation mellan människor;

    Abstract : Denna avhandling fokuserar på det meningsskapande och begripliggörande som fortgår vid tilltagande demenssjukdom, i det sociala samspelet, och de utmaningar för demens-omsorgen som detta innebär. Studien är aktörsorienterad och adresserar frågan om hur personer med åldersrelaterade progressiva demenssjukdomar i den vardagliga kommuni-kationen söker förstå sina situationer, omgivningen och sina liv – alltsammans inom ra-men för det dagliga samspelet på ett demensboende. READ MORE

  7. 10. Journalism Worthy of the Name: A Human Rights Perspective on Freedom within the Press

    Author : Herdis Thorgeirsdottir; Juridiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; positive requirements; dignity; democracy; Public Watchdog; European Convention on Human Rights; Article 10; journalism; freedom within the press;

    Abstract : There is much tension between the conception of the press as a private enterprise subject to the logic of the market and the press as an instrument of democracy. One of the broken promises of democracy is the failure of the market in guaranteeing a vigorous political debate. READ MORE