Dignity at stake: Caring for persons with impaired autonomy.

Dignity, usually considered an essential ethical value in healthcare, is a relatively complex, multifaceted concept. However, healthcare professionals often have only a vague idea of what it means to respect dignity when providing care, especially for persons with impaired autonomy. This article focuses on two concepts of dignity, human dignity and dignity of identity, and aims to analyse how these concepts can be applied in the care for persons with impaired autonomy and in furthering the practice of respect and protection from harm.

The theory of a co-creative process in advanced palliative home care nursing encounters: A qualitative deductive approach over time.

Aims And Objectives: The aim of this study was to test the theoretical conceptualization of the co-creative process in home care nursing encounters over time.

Method And Design: This was a multiple case study with a deductive analysis of qualitative data over time, using interviews and observations collected from three cases.

Results: The co-creative process was complex and contained main, sub- and micro-processes.

Sense of Self in Alzheimer's Research Participants.

The sense of self is vulnerable in people with Alzheimer's disease (AD), and might be positively and negatively influenced by research participation. The purpose of this study was to describe how people with AD express their experience of being a research participant with respect to their sense of self. Interviews and support group conversations involving 13 people with mild and moderate AD were analyzed using qualitative content analysis.

They are still the same - family members' stories about their relatives with dementia disorders as residents in a nursing home.

In order to better understand the context of suffering from dementia disorders, greater efforts should be made to understand and identify what persons with such disorders experience when living in a nursing home. The aim of this qualitative study was to gain further understanding of how persons with dementia disorders experienced and coped with their changed life situation after being relocated to a nursing home as described by their family members' perceptions. Qualitative data were collected from ten interviews with family members and evaluated using content analysis.

Being a close family member of a person with dementia living in a nursing home.

Aim And Objective: To illuminate how family members of persons with dementia describe their own experiences, before and after placing their relative in a nursing home.

Background: In the Western world and with a growing population of older people, the number of persons with dementia increases. Family members often become carers in their own homes creating stressful and exhausting situation that eventually leads to relocating the person to a nursing home.