Search for dissertations about: "home-help services"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 23 swedish dissertations containing the words home-help services.
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11. Ability in everyday activities and morale among older women with chronic musculoskeletal pain living alone : a behavioural medicine approach in physiotherapy
Abstract : The overall purpose of this thesis was to utilise a behavioural medicine approach in physiotherapy to study how older women with chronic musculoskeletal pain, who live alone and are dependent on formal care, perceive their everyday lives and to explore how their ability to perform everyday activities and morale could be promoted. Method: This thesis used a descriptive, correlative design (Study I), a randomised two-group design (Study III) and a qualitative inductive explorative design (Study II and IV). READ MORE
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12. Why do older adults seek emergency care? The impact of contextual factors, care, health, and social relations
Abstract : Background: Emergency department (ED) visits are becoming more prevalent globally. EDs provide care for acute health conditions, but some of these visits are driven by needs unmet by primary health care and social care for older adults, indicating ineffective social care and healthcare systems. READ MORE
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13. Does Anybody Care? : Public and Private Responsibilities in Swedish Eldercare 1940-2000
Abstract : Since the 1980s, practically all of the western welfare states have developed social policies, which aim at shifting the responsibilities for welfare services from the state to the family, the civil society or to the market. In Sweden, this political transformation has particularly hit the public eldercare. READ MORE
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14. Caring (in) Diaspora: Aging and Caring Experiences of Older Turkish Migrants in a Swedish Context
Abstract : This thesis investigates Turkish migrants’ aging experiences and their understandings about care by concentrating on the accounts of a group of first-generation Turkish immigrants who settled in Sweden in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The aim is to explore how older immigrants’ lives have been marked by the experience of migration and re-establishment in another country, how the impact of having once lost caring relations affected their decisions and desires about care in old age. READ MORE
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15. Studying ageing: experiences, description, variation, prediction and explanation
Abstract : The study follows a line of experiences, description, variation, prediction and explanation concerning ageing, health promotion and longevity. The experiences of aging were acquired during my studies of conversations, participation in longitudinal population studies in Gothenburg, and working with the Centre for Development of Home help services. READ MORE