Publications by authors named "Dorte M Rasmussen"
Meanings and experiences of assistive technologies in everyday lives of older citizens: a meta-interpretive review.
Disabil Rehabil Assist Technol
November 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to synthesize the available qualitative studies on the meaning of assistive technologies (AT) in elderly people's everyday lives in order to identify central concepts, themes, and findings from existing research.
Method: A systematic search of the literature was conducted, using predetermined search strategies. Exclusion criteria were, in accordance with the meta-interpretive approach, developed iteratively during the reading of abstracts and articles.
Background: Psychosocial cancer research illustrates how women treated for breast cancer experience physical changes in their bodies and the way they perceive, that, others see their body. But how patients with other types of cancer have experienced changes in their bodies and how this affects their relationship with others is less researched.
Objectives: To explore how cancer survivors with different types of cancer and cancer treatment, experience and handle their changed body, especially when meeting others, and how this influences their everyday life of survivorship, i.
Background: Cancer survivors have diverse and complex patterns of return to work, but little attention has been given to individual experiences of returning to work.
Objectives: To analyse the meaning of work and working life for cancer survivors over time.
Methods: Participant observation was carried out at a cancer rehabilitation centre.
Aim: This paper reports a study to explore how cancer survivors talk about, experience and manage time in everyday life.
Background: There is an increasing interest in specific physical and psychosocial aspects of life after cancer diagnosis and treatment, but hardly any research follows cancer survivors over time to explore how perceptions and experiences change.
Methods: An exploratory study was carried out in 2002-2004 with a purposive sample of adults who had experienced various forms of cancer.