Effect of a care process programme on frail older people's life satisfaction.

Aim: The aim of this study was to analyse the effects of a full-scale implementation of a care process programme on life satisfaction among frail older people, as compared with those receiving usual care.

Design: The study includes participants from a full-scale care process programme (77) and participants from a historical control group (66). The care process programme establishes a comprehensive continuum of care through components including case management, interprofessional teamwork and care-planning meetings in the older people's own homes.

Feeling Respected as a Person: a Qualitative Analysis of Frail Older People's Experiences on an Acute Geriatric Ward Practicing a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment.

Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) practices multidimensional, interdisciplinary, and diagnostic processes as a means to identify care needs, plan care, and improve outcomes of frail older people. Conventional content analysis was used to analyze frail older people's experiences of receiving CGA. Through a secondary analysis, interviews and transcripts were revisited in an attempt to discover the meaning behind the participants' implied, ambiguous, and verbalized thoughts that were not illuminated in the primary study.

Risk for depression affects older people's possibilities to exercise self-determination in using time, social relationships and living life as one wants: A cross-sectional study with frail older people.

Exercising self-determination in daily life is highly valued by older people. However, being in the hands of other people may challenge the older people's possibilities to exercise self-determination in their daily life. Among frail older people living in Sweden, risk for depression is highly predominant.

Face and content validity and acceptability of the Swedish ICECAP-O capability measure: Cognitive interviews with 70-year-old persons.

This study is part of a project that aims to culturally adapt the Investigating Choice Experiments for the Preferences of Older People-CAPability Index (ICECAP-O) for use in research and health and social care in Sweden. The objective was to evaluate face and content validity and acceptability. Eighteen 70-year-old community-dwelling persons participated in cognitive interviews.

Comprehensive geriatric assessment pilot of a randomized control study in a Swedish acute hospital: a feasibility study.

Background: Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) represent an important component of geriatric acute hospital care for frail older people, secured by a multidisciplinary team who addresses the multiple needs of physical health, functional ability, psychological state, cognition and social status. The primary objective of the pilot study was to determine feasibility for recruitment and retention rates. Secondary objectives were to establish proof of principle that CGA has the potential to increase patient safety.

Minor positive effects of health-promoting senior meetings for older community-dwelling persons on loneliness, social network, and social support.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the 1-year effect of the health-promoting intervention "senior meetings" for older community-dwelling persons regarding loneliness, social network, and social support.

Methods: Secondary analysis of data was carried out from two randomized controlled studies: Elderly Persons in the Risk Zone and Promoting Aging Migrants' Capabilities. Data from 416 participants who attended the senior meetings and the control group at baseline and the 1-year follow-up in the respective studies were included.

Self-determination among community-dwelling older persons: explanatory factors.

Background: Although it is acknowledged that exercising self-determination in daily activities affects older people's health and well-being, few studies have focused on the explanatory factors for self-determination in daily life.

Objective: To investigate explanatory factors for self-determination in the context of community-dwelling older persons.

Method: This cross-sectional study combined two sets of data that included community-dwelling persons 80 years and older (n = 456).

Shifting between self-governing and being governed: a qualitative study of older persons' self-determination.

Background: Older persons' right to exercise self-determination in daily life is supported by several laws. Research shows that older persons' self-determination is not fully respected within the healthcare sector. In order to enable and enhance older persons' self-determination, extensive knowledge of older persons' self-determination is needed.

Impact on Participation and Autonomy: Test of Validity and Reliability for Older Persons.

In research and healthcare it is important to measure older persons' self-determination in order to improve their possibilities to decide for themselves in daily life. The questionnaire Impact on Participation and Autonomy (IPA) assesses self-determination, but is not constructed for older persons. The aim of this study was to examine the validity and reliability of the IPA-S questionnaire for persons aged 70 years and older.

The importance for daily occupations of perceiving good health: Perceptions among women with rheumatic diseases.

Objective: The purpose was to describe and characterize what women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) perceive as important in considering the performance of daily occupations to perceive good health.

Methods: By using a phenomenographic research approach with semi-structured interviews with nine women between the ages of 42 and 65 the core category "Being able to be as active as possible in daily occupations" emerged.

Results: The women's repertoire of daily occupations had changed as the years had passed.