Informal Caregiver Stroke Program in Geriatric Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients: A Qualitative Study.

This study aimed to understand and gain insight into an informal caregiver program for caregivers of older stroke patients, which incorporates both skills training and education, in relation to caregiver burden. Semi-structured, in-depth interviews with individual informal caregivers were conducted at admission, at discharge, and six weeks after discharge. The program consisted of informal caregiver meetings, walk-in days, psychoeducation, and weekend leave after admission to a rehabilitation stroke unit in a nursing home.

Unpacking community mobility: a preliminary study into the embodied experiences of stroke survivors.

Purpose: To enrich the discussion on mobility in stroke rehabilitation by translating theoretical repertoires of mobility from the context of geography to rehabilitation.

Method: Qualitative research methodology was applied, and included in-depth interviews with stroke survivors.

Results: This study revealed: (a) social and material differences in clinical, private and public places; (b) ambivalences and shifting tensions in bodily, family and community life; (c) differences in access to resources to be used for mobility.

Home-making after stroke. A qualitative study among Dutch stroke survivors.

Stroke survivors may suffer from physical limitations as well as cognitive and behavioural difficulties. Many survivors work on their recovery in a rehabilitation clinic with the aim to return to their own home again. Since full recovery is often not feasible, they face the challenge of coming to terms with lasting effects of the stroke and of giving meaning to their home place again.

Combined clinical and home rehabilitation: case report of an integrated knowledge-to-action study in a Dutch rehabilitation stroke unit.

Background And Purpose: There is growing awareness that the poor uptake of evidence in health care is not a knowledge-transfer problem but rather one of knowledge production. This issue calls for re-examination of the evidence produced and assumptions that underpin existing knowledge-to-action (KTA) activities. Accordingly, it has been advocated that KTA studies should treat research knowledge and local practical knowledge with analytical impartiality.

Place attachment in stroke rehabilitation: a transdisciplinary encounter between cultural geography, environmental psychology and rehabilitation medicine.

Purpose: To increase understanding of stroke survivor's needs to successfully re-establish attachment to meaningful places at home and in the community.

Methods: Qualitative research methodology including in-depth interviews with stroke survivors in the clinical, post-discharge and reintegration phases of the Rehabilitation process.

Results: Participants longed for recovery and domestic places in the clinical phase, for pre-stroke activities and roles in the post-discharge phase, and for recognition and a sense of belonging in the reintegration phase.