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.

Factors contributing to serious adverse events in nursing homes.

Aims And Objectives: To identify the most common serious adverse events that occurred in nursing homes and their most frequent contributing factors to the improvement of safe nursing care.

Background: There is a need to improve safe nursing care in nursing homes. Residents are often frail and vulnerable with extensive needs for nursing care.

Feeling lonely in an unfamiliar place: older people's experiences of life close to death in a nursing home.

Aim: The aim of the study was to deepen the understanding of how older persons living in a nursing home experience life close to death.

Background: A move to and a life in a nursing home while being close to death is a reality for many older people in Sweden. Being able to express thoughts and feelings about death has been described as both crucial for sustaining personhood as well as for establishing a meaningful existence at the end of life.

Adverse events in nursing: A retrospective study of reports of patient and relative experiences.

Background: Patient safety is an important global issue. While it is well known that patients can suffer from adverse events in nursing care, there is a lack of knowledge as to how they experience them.

Aim: To examine adverse events in nursing care as they are experienced by patients and relatives.

Conversations between persons with dementia disease living in nursing homes and nurses--qualitative evaluation of an intervention with the validation method.

Living with dementia disease (DD) can include difficulties describing experiences of everyday lives, which can lead to withdrawal, social isolation or existential homelessness. Persons with DD living in nursing homes are mainly dependent on the nurses for establishing and maintaining relationships with those around them. It can be challenging for nurses to understand what a person with DD is trying to express and to make themselves understood in turn.