Understanding Older Persons' Experiences of Care Encounters in the Home Environment: A Hermeneutic Study.

Aim: To explore and gain a deeper understanding of older persons' experiences of care encounters when their home becomes a workplace.

Background: Worldwide healthcare services are increasingly being provided in older persons' homes by registered nurses. This presents new challenges as the home environment of older persons now doubles as a workplace for healthcare professionals.

Older persons' experiences of care encounters in their home: A multiple-case study.

Aim: To explore and describe older persons' unique experiences of care encounters with home care nurses in a real-life context.

Background: The increasing number of older persons in society contributes to increases in age-related impairments compromising their quality of life. Future care consists of "hospitals at home" where care encounters occur in a person's private domain, partly becoming a clinical workplace.

Nurses' experiences of encounters in home care: a phenomenological hermeneutic study.

Purpose: nurses working in home care often encounter patients with multiple diagnoses in unpredictable environments. This may cause ethical and emotional challenges and influence nurses' daily work. The aim of this study was to illuminate the meaning of nurses' lived experiences of encountering patients in home care.