Framing Person-Centred Leadership in Residential Care: A Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Aged-Care Clinical Leadership Qualities Framework.

Aim: To cross-culturally adapt a framework for person-centred leadership in residential care for older people in Sweden.

Design: This study has an exploratory and descriptive design.

Methods: The translation procedure followed a cyclic process of translation into Swedish and back-translation into English by two independent bilingual linguists.

Challenges for staff encountering older people's existential concerns: Swedish first-line managers' views. A cross-sectional study.

Aims And Objectives: To describe first-line managers' (FLMs) views of the challenges faced by staff when encountering older people's existential concerns in home and residential care.

Methodological Design And Justification: This cross-sectional study uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods.

Ethical Issues And Approval: The study was approved by the Swedish Ethical Review Authority (ref.

Adolescents' Experiences of Existential Loneliness Regarding Receiving and Providing Support.

Among adolescents, loneliness is common. One kind of loneliness, existential loneliness, is understood as a painful part of the human condition. During adolescence, existential loneliness has been shown to be challenging to navigate independently.

Ethical challenges in residential care facilities during COVID-19: Leaders' perspective.

Background: Person-centred care is based on ethical principles, and it is regarded as high-quality care. Care of older persons should embrace person-centredness. During the pandemic, older persons were highlighted as a vulnerable group at risk of developing serious illness and/or suffering death from COVID-19.

Existential Loneliness Among Older People from the Perspective of Health Care Professionals: A European Multicenter Study.

Introduction: Health care professionals (HCPs) encounter different forms of loneliness in their work. It is essential that they have the courage, skills, and tools to deal with loneliness, in particular with existential loneliness (EL) which relates to meaning in life and the fundamentals of living and dying.

Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate HCPs' views on loneliness among older people and their understanding, perception, and professional experience of EL in older people.

Deeply lonely in the borderland between childhood and adulthood - Experiences of existential loneliness as narrated by adolescents.

Background: Adolescence is associated with different feelings and experiences that can negatively affect adolescents' health and well-being. In the transition between childhood and adulthood, experiences of loneliness are common. A deep form of loneliness is described as existential loneliness.

Sadness and Other Health Complaints among Swedish Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Health complaints are increasing among adolescents and are recognized as a global public health issue. Health complaints are an indicator for subjective ill-being, but little is known about the relationship between sadness and other health complaints. The aim of this study was to investigate sadness and other health complaints among Swedish adolescents.

Being a volunteer encountering older people's loneliness and existential loneliness: alleviating loneliness for others and oneself.

Background: The increasing proportion of older people worldwide is challenging society and the healthcare sector to develop new solutions, such as involving volunteers, especially to combat loneliness among older people. Loneliness is a broad concept comprising, for example existential loneliness - a deep feeling of aloneness in the world. We know little about volunteers' experience of encountering older people's loneliness in general and existential loneliness in particular.

Understanding User Involvement in Research in Aging and Health.

User involvement in research is advocated as an avenue for efficient societal developments. In this article, we identify potentials, problems, and challenges related to research on aging and health, and identify and illustrate research priorities using an evolving research program as an example. Involving user representatives in the development phase, the UserAge program engages researchers at four universities in Sweden.

Exploring Existential Loneliness Among Frail Older People as a Basis for an Intervention: Protocol for the Development Phase of the LONE Study.

Background: International research concerning end-of-life issues emphasizes the importance of health care professionals (HCPs) being prepared to deal with existential aspects, like loneliness, in order to provide adequate care. The last phase of life is often related to losses of different kinds, which might trigger feelings of isolation in general and existential loneliness (EL) in particular. There is a large body of research concerning loneliness among older people in general, but little is known about the phenomenon and concept of EL in old age.

Loneliness among older people living in care homes in Sri Lanka.

Aim And Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore loneliness in older people (aged 65+) living in care homes in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Background: Loneliness, defined as the subjective, unwelcome feeling of the lack or loss of companionship, is known to be associated with old age, especially among older people living in care homes. Although several studies have shown that loneliness is highly prevalent, we lack knowledge about older people's personal experience of loneliness when residing in a care home and the strategies that older people use by themselves on a day-to-day basis to alleviate loneliness.

The context of care matters: Older people's existential loneliness from the perspective of healthcare professionals-A multiple case study.

Aim: To explore existential loneliness among older people in different healthcare contexts from the perspective of healthcare professionals.

Background: Professionals meet and care for older people in most care contexts and need to be prepared to address physical, psychological, social and existential needs. Addressing existential loneliness can be both challenging and meaningful for professionals and is often not prioritised in times of austerity.

Being acknowledged by others and bracketing negative thoughts and feelings: Frail older people's narrations of how existential loneliness is eased.

Aims And Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe how EL was eased, as narrated by frail older people.

Background: Existential loneliness (EL) is an unavoidable part of the human condition. It is a complex phenomenon that has been described as disconnection from life.

The Impact of Living with Parkinson's Disease: Balancing within a Web of Needs and Demands.

This study explores the impact of living with Parkinson's disease (PD). Nineteen persons (11 women) aged 55-84 diagnosed with PD 3-27 years ago participated. Data were collected through semistructured interviews, which were recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analysed by qualitative content analysis.

Encountering existential loneliness among older people: perspectives of health care professionals.

Purpose: Existential loneliness is part of being human that is little understood in health care, but, to provide good care to their older patients, professionals need to be able to meet their existential concerns. The aim of this study was to explore health care professionals' experiences of their encounters with older people they perceive to experience existential loneliness.

Method: We conducted 11 focus groups with 61 health professionals working in home care, nursing home care, palliative care, primary care, hospital care, or pre-hospital care.

Contrasts in older persons' experiences and significant others' perceptions of existential loneliness.

Background: As frail older people might have difficulties in expressing themselves, their needs are often interpreted by others, for example, by significant others, whose information health care staff often have to rely on. This, in turn, can put health care staff in ethically difficult situations, where they have to choose between alternative courses of action. One aspect that might be especially difficult to express is that of existential loneliness.

Being disconnected from life: meanings of existential loneliness as narrated by frail older people.

Objectives: This study illuminated the meanings of existential loneliness (EL) as narrated by frail older people.

Method: Data were collected through individual narrative interviews with 23 people 76-101 years old receiving long-term care and services. A phenomenological hermeneutical analysis was performed, including a naïve reading and two structural analyses as a basis for a comprehensive understanding of EL.

The Development of the strain in dementia care scale (SDCS).

Background: Though many staff gain satisfaction from working with people with dementia in residential facilities, they also experience significant stress. This is a serious issue because this in turn can affect the quality of care. There is, however, a lack of instruments to measure staff strain in the dementia-specific residential care environment, and the aim of this study, accordingly, was to develop the "Strain in Dementia Care Scale.

The shift from a medical to a nursing orientation: A comparison of Swedish nursing students' expectations when entering the nursing degree programme in 2003 and 2013.

Background: The focus of education in nursing has changed over time with a decreased focus on biomedicine and an increased focus on nursing science. It is therefore important to investigate whether these changes are also reflected in the students' conceptions and expectations of the programme over time.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to describe and compare two cohorts of students entering the nursing programme with 10year in between (2003 and 2013), regarding their demographic background, reasons for wanting to become a registered nurse, expectations of the programme and perceptions of the nursing profession.

Swedish politicians' view of obstacles when dealing with priority settings in health care.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify and describe main obstacles for politicians when dealing with healthcare priority setting.

Design/methodology/approach: The study had an exploratory descriptive design based on interviews with 18 politicians from two different county councils in Sweden. The interviews were analyzed using inductive qualitative content analysis.

Ethical aspects of a predictive test for Huntington's Disease: A long term perspective.

Background: A predictive genetic test for Huntington's disease can be used before any symptoms are apparent, but there is only sparse knowledge about the long-term consequences of a positive test result. Such knowledge is important in order to gain a deeper understanding of families' experiences.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to describe a young couple's long-term experiences and the consequences of a predictive test for Huntington's disease.

Effect of an occupation-focused family intervention on change in parents' time use and children's body mass index.

OBJECTIVE. This study explored factors related to changes in the time parents spent with their children with obesity and associated decreases in children's body mass index (BMI) z-scores after an occupation-focused intervention. METHOD.

Development and psychometric properties of the Swedish ALPS-Neo pain and stress assessment scale for newborn infants.

Aim: To validate and evaluate the psychometric properties of the ALPS-Neo, a new pain assessment scale created for the continuous evaluation of pain and stress in preterm and sick term infants.

Methods: A unidimensional scale for continuous pain, Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital Pain Scale (ALPS 1), was developed further to assess continuous pain and stress in infants treated in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The pain scale includes observations of five behaviours.