Improving everyday life of people with dementia living at home: Health care professionals' experiences.

Aim: This study investigates what health care professionals experience is important for improving everyday life of people with dementia living at home.

Background: A prerequisite for living at home is that people with dementia and their relatives can handle everyday life together despite the challenges that dementia poses.

Methods: This qualitative study conducted focus group interviews (n = 14), and the data were analysed using qualitative content analysis.

Nurses' attitudes towards family importance in nursing care across Europe.

Aims And Objective: To explore differences in nurses' attitudes regarding the importance of family in nursing care and factors associated with nurses' attitudes across 11 European countries.

Background: Family involvement in healthcare has received attention in many European healthcare systems. Nurses have a unique opportunity to promote family involvement in healthcare; however, their attitudes and beliefs may facilitate or impede this practice.

Experience of Managing Countertransference Through Self-Guided Imagery in Meditation Among Healthcare Professionals.

Introduction: As a part of the therapeutic relationship, a significant, well-established predictor of outcomes in psychiatric healthcare, healthcare professionals' emotional reactions to patients may affect treatment outcomes.

Aim: The aim of our study was to explore and describe healthcare professionals' experiences with managing countertransference using skills from a training program on self-guided imagery in meditation (SIM).

Method: Following an exploratory descriptive design, we conducted qualitative interviews with 10 healthcare professionals who care for patients with mental illness and subjected the collected data to thematic content analysis.

Patient experiences with videoconferencing as social contact and in follow-up from oncology nurses in primary health care.

Patients with various forms of cancer often have unmet psychosocial support needs. By interpretative phenomenological approach, this study aimed to acquire a deeper understanding of home-living patients with cancer's experience and meaning from videoconferencing in oncological nursing follow-up in primary healthcare and contact with networks. Six patients from rural Norway participated.

Coping with Everyday Life for Home-Dwelling Persons with Dementia: A Qualitative Study.

Aim: This study aimed to gain insight into factors that influence everyday coping strategies as described by persons with early to intermediate dementia.

Background: Living with dementia presents difficulties coping with everyday life. This study focuses on coping with everyday life for persons with mild to moderate dementia in order to facilitate their ability to live at home.

Oncology nurses' lived experiences of video communication in follow-up care of home-living patients: A phenomenological study in rural Norway.

Purpose: To explore the lived experiences of oncology nurses (ONs) during three months of virtual care provided through video conferencing (VC) in the follow-up care for home-living patients with cancer in rural Norway.

Method: An exploratory study employing a descriptive phenomenological approach conducted with a purposive sample of four ONs working in primary health care in three municipalities. Individual interviews based on open-ended questions about the ONs' experiences of VC use in follow-up care were analyzed using methodology inspired by Clark Moustakas.

Informal caregivers and persons with dementia's everyday life coping.

This qualitative study explores informal caregivers' experiences of supporting persons with dementia's everyday life coping. In the future, there will be fewer health personnel, increased dementia prevalence and limited nursing home availability. Accordingly, close relatives may be compelled to assume greater care responsibilities.

How Volunteers Contribute to Persons with Dementia Coping in Everyday Life.

Introduction: The society needs volunteers to fulfill its duty to ensure that people with dementia have active and meaningful everyday lives. Volunteers seem to experience their work as positive and meaningful for their own part, but we know less about what motivates volunteers to start working in home-dwelling dementia care and what motivates them to continue their engagement. This study seeks to close some of the knowledge gaps that exist regarding volunteers' engagement in activities for persons with dementia.

Introducing Videoconferencing on Tablet Computers in Nurse-Patient Communication: Technical and Training Challenges.

Background: This article examines personnel and patient experiences of videoconferencing (VC) trials on tablet computers between oncology certified nurses (OCNs) and patients with cancer who live at home. The study points to organizational pitfalls during the introduction process. In many different arenas, the use of VC has increased recently owing to improved Internet access and capacity.

Self-guided Positive Imagery Training: Effects beyond the Emotions-A Loreta Study.

Previously we demonstrated that a 12-week lasting had a positive effect on the psycho-emotional state of healthy subjects and was associated with an increase in functional connectivity in the brain. Here we repeated the previous project, but expanded the study, testing the hypothesis that training can also affect cognitive functions. Twenty subjects (half of them with subthreshold depression according CES-D) participated in the program of for 12 weeks.

Former Work Life and People With Dementia.

Twelve persons with dementia were interviewed about their former work lives. Their motivation for choosing their past work was influenced by values of their contemporary culture. Those who had come to terms with their illness had positive feelings about their past contributions in their former paid work.

Can the Psycho-Emotional State be Optimized by Regular Use of Positive Imagery?, Psychological and Electroencephalographic Study of Self-Guided Training.

The guided imagery training is considered as an effective method and therefore widely used in modern cognitive psychotherapy, while less is known about the effectiveness of self-guided. The present study investigated the effects of regular use of self-guided positive imagery, applying both subjective (assessment of the psycho-emotional state) and objective (electroencephalographic, EEG) approaches to research. Thirty healthy subjects participated in the cognitive imagery-training program for 12 weeks.

Pain Assessment Strategies in Home Care and Nursing Homes in Mid-Norway: A Cross-sectional Survey.

The prevalence of pain ranges from 27.8% to 86.5% in nursing homes and 42% to 50% in home care.

Differences in social support of caregivers living with partners suffering from COPD or dementia.

Background: Future patients with chronic diseases will probably remain longer in their homes. To enable family caregivers to meet these challenges, public services and informal support are essential.

Objectives: This study compared social support between home-dwelling caregivers of partners with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or dementia.

Personality features, caring burden and mental health of cohabitants of partners with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or dementia.

Objectives: The interplay between personality, mental health and type of disease in explaining caring burden was studied in home-dwelling cohabitants of partners with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or dementia.

Methods: A cross-sectional study including 206 participants with 80% response rate. Neuroticism was assessed by Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) and externality by Locus of Control of Behaviour.