Relationships first: Formal and informal home care of older adults in Sweden.

To a great extent, older people in Sweden, often with extensive care needs, are cared for in their own home. Support is often needed from both family and professional caregivers. This study aimed to describe and analyse different aspects of health, functioning and social networks, and how they relate to formal and informal care in the home among older adults.

Balance in life as a prerequisite for community-dwelling older adults' sense of health and well-being after retirement: an interview-based study.

Purpose: This study aimed to describe community-dwelling older adults' perceptions of health and well-being in life after retirement.

Methods: This study is part of a larger project using a mixed-methods design to address lifestyles' influence on community-dwelling older adults' health. Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted with 18 older adults in age 70 to 95 years.

The intertwining of reconciliation and displacement: a lifeworld hermeneutic study of older adults' perceptions of the finality of life.

Purpose: This study aimed to explain and understand the existential meaning of the finality of life from the perspective of healthy older adults.

Method: Participants were recruited from a major project on older adults' life situations. They were interviewed about their thoughts on the end of life, and their responses were interpreted using a lifeworld hermeneutic approach.

A responsibility that never rests - the life situation of a family caregiver to an older person.

Background: When the ageing population increases, the burden and responsibility of close family members will likely increase. Those closely related who assume a great responsibility can be significantly affected in health, well-being and daily life.

Aim: This study aims to describe the life situation when family caregivers are imposed responsibility for an older person with complex care needs in their own home.

Becoming a guest in your own home: Home care in Sweden from the perspective of older people with multimorbidities.

Aim And Objective: To describe the meaning of the phenomenon home care from the perspective of older persons who live alone with multimorbidity.

Background: In line with worldwide changing demographics, conditions for older people in need of home care are changing. In Sweden there is a stay-in-place policy and older people are expected to live and be cared for in their own home as long as possible.

Experiencing Support During Needle-Related Medical Procedures: A Hermeneutic Study With Young Children (3-7Years).

Unlabelled: Needle-related medical procedures (NRMPs) are something that all young children need to undergo at some point. These procedures may involve feelings of fear, pain and anxiety, which can cause problems later in life either when seeking healthcare in general or when seeking care specifically involving needles. More knowledge is needed about supporting children during these procedures.

Social support outside work and return to work among women on long-term sick leave working within human service organizations.

Aim: To investigate the relationships between return to work and social support outside work among women on long-term sick leave from human service organizations.

Background: Work is an important part of life and is, in general, considered to be supportive of health and wellbeing. Few studies have thoroughly investigated the importance of aspects of social support outside work for return to work.

Consequences of Needle-Related Medical Procedures: A Hermeneutic Study With Young Children (3-7 Years).

Unlabelled: Needle-related medical procedures (NRMPs) are often frightening and cause children anxiety and pain. Only a few studies have examined the perspectives of younger children. More knowledge is needed about younger children's experiences in caring situations such as NRMPs.

Parents' perspectives on supporting children during needle-related medical procedures.

When children endure needle-related medical procedures (NRMPs), different emotions arise for the child and his/her parents. Despite the parents' own feelings, they have a key role in supporting their child through these procedures. The aim of this study is to describe the meanings of supporting children during NRMPs from the perspective of the parents.

Meeting Swedish Health Care System: Immigrant Parents of Children With Asthma Narrate.

Coming to a new country involves many challenges. One of them is to approach a new health care system when you have a child with asthma. The aim of this study was to gain a broader understanding of immigrant parents' experiences of the Swedish health care system.

Nurses' perspectives on supporting children during needle-related medical procedures.

Children state that among their worst fears during hospitalization are those related to various nursing procedures and to injections and needles. Nurses thus have a responsibility to help children cope with needle-related medical procedures (NRMP) and the potentially negative effects of these. The aim of the study is to describe the lived experience of supporting children during NRMP, from the perspective of nurses.

"I have to turn myself inside out": caring for immigrant families of children with asthma.

In multicultural societies, health care professionals encounter immigrant families of children with asthma. They play an important role in supporting these families, but few studies have focused on this phenomenon. The aim of the present study is to gain a broader understanding of the challenges health care professionals face in their encounters with non-Western immigrant parents of children with asthma.

Asthma--quality of life for Swedish children.

Aims And Objectives: The purpose of this study was to describe how Swedish children with asthma experience their QoL and to search for possible associations between their experience of QoL and some determinants.

Background: Asthma is a chronic disorder that can restrict a child's life, physically, emotionally, socially and spiritually, and this has an impact on a child's quality of life (QoL).

Methods: Two hundred and twenty-six children with asthma (37% girls and 63% boys) and 371 parents of these children participated in the study.

Relations governed by uncertainty: part of life of families of a child with asthma.

This study identifies what influences and characterizes family relations in families of a child with asthma. Seventeen mothers of children aged between 6 and 16 years participated in audio-taped in-depth interviews. The researchers were inspired by grounded theory in data collection and data analysis.

Having a child with asthma--quality of life for Swedish parents.

Background: Asthma is the most common chronic childhood disease. Childhood asthma contributes significantly to morbidity among children and has a significant impact on the quality of life (QoL) and daily routines of both the children and their parents.

Aim And Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate how Swedish parents of children with asthma experience their QoL, and to investigate whether there were differences concerning QoL between parents within the same family.