Fostering social participation among older adults: Perspectives of stakeholders.

Background: Fostering social participation for active and healthy ageing among older adults is an urgent issue in a changing society that requires new approaches from occupational therapists as well as from society at large.

Aim: To explore possibilities to foster social participation for older adults in society from the perspective of stakeholders.

Material And Methods: A qualitative design was applied.

Framing Facets of Social Participation: Older Adults' Experiences of "Social Online Meetings".

Changing demographics with an increased proportion of older adults indicate the need to develop new health-promoting interventions where the potential of digitization is considered. The aim was to explore and create an understanding of how social online meetings are experienced by older adults. Interviews with older adults generated data that were analyzed using a grounded theory approach.

'Possibilities and challenges for older couples to continue ageing in place'.

Ageing in place is an imminent concern for both older couples and communities. Identifying ways to support ageing in place is required to meet the needs and challenges of older couples and social services systems. Through focus groups with a total of 46 participants and a constant comparative methodology, this study aimed to explore and describe the experiences and reasoning of spousal carers, healthcare professionals, and stakeholders regarding possibilities for older couples to age in place.

Older adults' experiences of maintaining social participation: Creating opportunities and striving to adapt to changing situations.

Background: Social participation concerns the possibility of engaging in activities in interaction with others or society at large and contributes to the health and well-being of older adults. In contrast, a lack of social participation is associated with loneliness. It is, therefore, important to understand what strategies older adults use to maintain social participation.

Enacted togetherness - A concept to understand occupation as socio-culturally situated.

This paper is in line with the on-going discussion of a theoretical re-orientation towards acknowledging the socio-cultural dimensions of occupation. To define enacted togetherness as a concept and share our understandings of how this concept can add to the understanding of occupation as socio-culturally situated. The concept enacted togetherness emerged from empirical findings of a larger research project with older adults living with late-life depression.

Physiotherapy treatment experiences of persons with persistent musculoskeletal pain: A qualitative study.

The aim of this study was to explore and describe the physiotherapy treatment experiences of persons with persistent musculoskeletal pain. Eleven participants with persistent musculoskeletal pain in the back, neck, or shoulders were included in the study. Data was collected via semi-structured interviews and were analysed with qualitative content analysis.

Strategies of older couples to sustain togetherness.

The aim of this study was to explore how elderly couples, who are in need of social services in the community, act and reason over time regarding their everyday togetherness. Data were generated through repeated interviews and participant observations with three older couples. A narrative method was used for data generation and analysis.

Healthcare professionals' perspective on how to promote older couples' participation in everyday life when using respite care.

Aims: The aim is to describe healthcare professionals' perspectives on how they understand and promote older couples' participation in everyday life when using residential respite care.

Design And Methods: Eighteen healthcare professionals with varying degrees of competence and from one residential respite care facility participated in four focus group interviews. Data were analysed through qualitative latent content analysis.

Occupational Therapists' Interactions With Older Adult Caregivers: Negotiating Priorities and Expertise.

Although numerous studies have examined provider-caregiver interactions and their influence on care outcomes, few represent the perspective of the provider or specifically consider occupational therapy practitioners. The aim of this article is to explore the perspectives of occupational therapists regarding interactions with older adult caregivers in geriatric practice settings. The study was conducted using a constructivist grounded theory approach based on data obtained from repeated focus group sessions and subsequent individual reflections.

"To Work Just Like Anyone Else"-A Narrative from a Man Aging with Spinal Cord Injury.

People aging with spinal cord injury (SCI) develop medical problems commonly associated with the aging process at a younger age than the general population. However, research about how the life story changes and how meaning will be experienced in occupations is lacking. The aim was to describe and offer an explanation of how a man experienced meaning in everyday occupations while aging with an SCI.

Crossing a Line: A narrative of risk-taking by older women serving as caregivers.

Background: Caregiving carried out by adults for other adults is increasing around the world as the demographics of many industrialized countries shift toward an older population with escalating care needs toward the end of life. Although much has been written about caregiving, few studies document the experiences of providing care as narrated by the caregivers.

Aim: To explore the everyday experiences of older adults serving as primary informal caregivers to significant others.

Spousal caregivers' experiences of participation in everyday life when living in shifting contexts.

Background: To promote health and well-being, and to meet the desires of the growing elderly population to age in place, elderly spousal caregivers need adequate support such as respite care services. More knowledge is needed about elderly spousal caregivers' experiences in relation to participation, which is an aspect of health that remains relatively unexplored for this group.

Aim: To explore and describe how elderly spousal caregivers experience and discuss participation in everyday life when living in shifting contexts due to the use of respite care.

"I know what I want but I'm not sure how to get it"-Expectations of physiotherapy treatment of persons with persistent pain.

Expectations of physiotherapy treatment of patients with persistent pain have been shown to influence treatment outcome and patient satisfaction, yet this is mostly explored and described in retrospective. The aim of the study was to explore and describe the expectations people with persistent pain have prior to physiotherapy treatment. Ten participants with persistent musculoskeletal pain from the back, neck, or shoulders were included in the study.

Care partner dyad strategies to support participation in community mobility.

Background: Factors supporting continued community mobility for older adults warrant attention due to the relationship between mobility, health, and social participation. Although community mobility is typically considered from the perspective of individual functional abilities, care partnerships represent a situation in which maintaining community mobility has implications for the well-being of all members.

Aim: The aim of this research was to explore and describe strategies used by older adult care partner dyads to support and maintain participation in community mobility.

Togetherness in another way: Internet as a tool for togetherness in everyday occupations among older adults.

Objective: This article explores and describes how the Internet was experienced as a tool for togetherness in everyday occupations among older adults.

Methods: Discussions with 12 older adults, divided into three focus groups, generated data that were analysed using a grounded theory approach. Six women and six men between 67 and 79 years of age were purposively selected and recruited from a retirement organization in northern Sweden.

Experiences of participation in everyday occupations among persons aging with a tetraplegia.

Purpose: This study aimed to gain understanding of participation in everyday occupations through life stories of persons aging with a traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI).

Method: A narrative method was used for data collection and a paradigmatic analysis was used to analyze data.

Results: The analysis resulted in three themes that illustrate how the participants acted to participate in everyday occupations, how that changed over time, and some concerns about their future.

Being part of an unfolding story: togetherness in everyday occupations when ageing.

Aim: The aim of this study was to explore and enhance the understanding of how togetherness in everyday occupations is experienced and discussed among older adults.

Method: Focus-group discussions generated the data and a total of 12 participants, including six women and six men, divided into three groups, participated in this study. Analysis was performed using a grounded theory approach.

Leisure repertoire among persons with a spinal cord injury: interests, performance, and well-being.

Objective: To explore and describe the leisure repertoire of persons with traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) and how the repertoire is related to interest, performance, and well-being.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting: A total of 97 persons with traumatic SCI were recruited from the non-profit national organization, RG Active Rehabilitation in Sweden.

How adults with ADHD get engaged in and perform everyday activities.

Objective: An increasing number of adults with ADHD face problems with everyday activities, and occupational therapists play an important role regarding interventions for this particular group. However, there is a knowledge gap within occupational therapy regarding how adults with ADHD experience engagement in everyday activities. The aim of this study was to understand the experiences of engagement in, and describe how adults with ADHD performed everyday activities.

Being part of an enacted togetherness: narratives of elderly people with depression.

In this article, we explored how five elderly persons with depression engaged in everyday activities with others, over time, and how this was related to their experience of meaning. Repeated interviews and participant observations generated data that was analysed using a narrative approach. Analysis identified togetherness as an acted relation, "enacted togetherness", emphasising how the act of doing everyday activities with someone created togetherness and belonging, and being part of an enacted togetherness seemed to be a way for the participants to negotiate and construct meaning.

The influence of social support on the rehabilitation of women with spinal cord injury: experiences recounted by occupational therapists.

Objective: Women with a spinal cord injury (SCI) often require support from others to perform their everyday activities. The aim was to describe OTs' experiences of how social support from the network influences or could influence the rehabilitation of women with SCIs.

Methods: Four occupational therapists, specialized in rehabilitation of persons with SCIs, narrated 11 separate stories relating to women with an SCI.

Experiences of participation in occupations of women on long-term sick leave.

The majority of individuals on long-term sick leave experience negative effects in their lives associated with limitations on their participation, decreased income, and feelings of guilt. The aim was to describe the experiences that women on long-term sick leave have of participation in occupation. Unstructured interviews were used for the data collection, which involved eight women; a grounded theory approach was used.

One woman's story about her everyday life after a spinal cord injury.

Purpose: The aim was to describe and offer an explanation for how one woman viewed her everyday life after a spinal cord injury (SCI).

Method: Data were collected by conducting three interviews with one woman with a SCI. Open-ended questions were used with the intention of capturing the woman's own story.

Men's experiences of giving and taking social support after their wife's spinal cord injury.

The aim of this study was to gain an understanding of how men living with women with spinal cord injury (SCI) experienced and acted when they were giving and taking social support to and from their wives and other persons in their social network. Another aim was to give some possible explanations of the complex process of change that they went through. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with four men and field notes.

To regain participation in occupations through human encounters--narratives from women with spinal cord injury.

Purpose: To gain an understanding of how women with spinal cord injury (SCI) experienced human encounters in occupations and how these influenced their participation.

Method: The data were collected through two or three in-depth interviews with 13 women (age 25-61 years) with SCI. Data analysis was carried out by using a paradigmatic analysis of narrative data, followed by an interpretation based on a narrative theory.