' transforming the self through vocational rehabilitation for people with acquired brain injury.

Background: Acquired Brain injury (ABI) causes ripples throughout the occupational and social fabric. It enters people's lives at a significant personal cost, encroaching on people's sense of self. Vocational rehabilitation is a viable venue to regain control of their life and support them in forming a new sense of self.

Enabling work for people with dementia - Recommendations for interventions: A mixed-methods review.

Worldwide, 50 million people are living with dementia. As more individuals develop dementia while still working, dementia will increasingly become a workplace issue and a societal concern. Interventions targeted at work retainment, can reduce, and postpone the loss of cognitive functioning following dementia.

Making meaning of everyday life in the context of lung cancer treatment-a qualitative study of outpatients' perspectives.

Background: The increasing survival after a lung cancer diagnosis implies that patients live longer with the disease, which means that symptoms and side effects of the treatment become part of everyday life.

Aim: The study explored how older adults make meaning of everyday life when undergoing treatment for their lung cancer.

Material And Methods: A qualitative study using semi-structured interviews was conducted with 12 older adults with lung cancer undergoing various treatments.

'When I can ride my bike, I think, am I at all as sick as they say?' An exploration of how men with advanced lung cancer form illness perceptions in everyday life.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore how men with advanced lung cancer form perceptions of their illness in everyday life and how this influences perceptions about rehabilitation.

Methods: Constructivist grounded theory principles guided the collection and analysis of data from in-depth interviews with 10 men with advanced lung cancer.

Results: The findings show that the men's illness perception was fluid, contextual and formed by interrelated factors.

Identity and home: Understanding the experience of people with advanced cancer.

The purpose of this study was to explore how the identity of people with advanced cancer is influenced by their experiences of living at home. A total of 28 in-depth interviews were conducted with 22 people with advanced cancer and four spouses. Grounded theory guided the collection and analysis of data.

Occupation as marker of self: Occupation in relation to self among people with advanced cancer.

Background: Living with advanced cancer can have a profound impact on the person's self. A person's self is influenced by various aspects of daily life, including engagement in occupation. From an occupational perspective, little research has been done to explore how the self of people with advanced cancer is formed through their engagement in occupation.