Challenges for staff encountering older people's existential concerns: Swedish first-line managers' views. A cross-sectional study.

Aims And Objectives: To describe first-line managers' (FLMs) views of the challenges faced by staff when encountering older people's existential concerns in home and residential care.

Methodological Design And Justification: This cross-sectional study uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods.

Ethical Issues And Approval: The study was approved by the Swedish Ethical Review Authority (ref.

Perspectives on existential loneliness. Narrations by older people in different care contexts.

The aim was to explore existential loneliness in different long-term care contexts as narrated by older people. A qualitative secondary analysis was performed of 22 interviews with older people in residential care, home care, and specialized palliative care. The analysis started with naive reading of interviews from each care context.

Meetings are an Important Prerequisite for Flourishing Workplace Relationships.

Relationships among colleagues, managers, and care recipients are mutually important, and need to be highlighted in workplace health promotion. The aim was to explore prerequisites for flourishing workplace relationships in a municipal healthcare setting for old people. As part of this process, we explored the staff's suggestions on how work relationships could be improved.

Being a volunteer encountering older people's loneliness and existential loneliness: alleviating loneliness for others and oneself.

Background: The increasing proportion of older people worldwide is challenging society and the healthcare sector to develop new solutions, such as involving volunteers, especially to combat loneliness among older people. Loneliness is a broad concept comprising, for example existential loneliness - a deep feeling of aloneness in the world. We know little about volunteers' experience of encountering older people's loneliness in general and existential loneliness in particular.

Spouses' existential loneliness when caring for a frail partner late in life - a hermeneutical approach.

: Spouses are in a vulnerable situation when caring for a frail partner late in life. Exploring their existential loneliness can be a way to understand more about their existential needs.: A hermeneutic approach was used.

Assessment of Search Strategies in Literature-Review-Based Candidate Theses Within a Nursing Program.

Background: The majority of candidate theses in baccalaureate nursing programs in Sweden are written as literature studies. Being able to carry out a systematic and structured literature search is an essential part of thesis-related work.

Aim: The aim of the current study was to investigate changes in nursing students' search strategies in candidate theses.

The context of care matters: Older people's existential loneliness from the perspective of healthcare professionals-A multiple case study.

Aim: To explore existential loneliness among older people in different healthcare contexts from the perspective of healthcare professionals.

Background: Professionals meet and care for older people in most care contexts and need to be prepared to address physical, psychological, social and existential needs. Addressing existential loneliness can be both challenging and meaningful for professionals and is often not prioritised in times of austerity.

Encountering existential loneliness among older people: perspectives of health care professionals.

Purpose: Existential loneliness is part of being human that is little understood in health care, but, to provide good care to their older patients, professionals need to be able to meet their existential concerns. The aim of this study was to explore health care professionals' experiences of their encounters with older people they perceive to experience existential loneliness.

Method: We conducted 11 focus groups with 61 health professionals working in home care, nursing home care, palliative care, primary care, hospital care, or pre-hospital care.

Resources for work-related well-being: A qualitative study about healthcare employees' experiences of relationships at work.

Aims And Objectives: To explore municipal healthcare employees' experiences of relationships with care recipients and colleagues. The specific research questions were when do the relationships enhance well-being, and what prerequisites are needed for such relationships to occur?

Background: Employees in health and social care for older people often depict their work in negative terms, and they often take a high number of sick leaves. Despite the heavy workload, other employees express well-being at work and highlight social relationships as one reason for this.

Challenges in everyday life among recently diagnosed and more experienced adults with type 2 diabetes: A multistage focus group study.

Aims And Objectives: To identify perceived challenges related to self-management among recently diagnosed adults and those with longer experience of type 2 diabetes as a foundation for the future development of a person-centred information and communication technology service.

Background: Learning self-management of type 2 diabetes includes mastering the skills required to complete complex emotional and physical tasks. A service developed with the participation of stakeholders may be an alternative way to meet rising needs for self-management.

Designing an ICT self-management service: suggestions from persons with type 2 diabetes.

This paper reports the wishes and needs of people with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) for a future information and communication technology (ICT) self-management service to help manage their condition and their everyday life. Diabetes is a chronic disease affecting more and more people and placing increasing demands on health care. The self-management of diabetes includes instrumental and, decision-making skills and skills in managing daily activities, which may be supported by an ICT service.

Survey process quality: a question of healthcare manager approach.

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how healthcare first-line managers think about and act regarding workplace survey processes. Design/methodology/approach This interview study was performed at a hospital in south Sweden. First-line healthcare managers ( n=24) volunteered.

Health and social care planning in collaboration in older persons' homes: the perspectives of older persons, family members and professionals.

Providing health and social care to older persons is challenging, since older persons often have multiple diseases and a complex health situation. Hence many professions and organisations are involved. Lack of interprofessional and interorganisational collaboration leads to fragmented care.

Salutogenic resources in relation to teachers' work-life balance.

Background: Experiencing work-life balance is considered a health promoting resource. To counter-balance the negative development of teachers' work situation, salutogenic resources need to be examined among teachers.

Objective: To examine resources related to teachers' experience of their work-life balance.

Developing health and social care planning in collaboration.

Collaboration between different professions in community care for older people is often both difficult and complex. In this project, a participatory action research (PAR) was conducted in order to support the professions involved in the care for older people to develop individualized health and social care plans. Cases from daily work were discussed in different professional groups over a period of one year.

From a diagnostic and particular approach to a person-centred approach: a development project.

Aims And Objectives: To investigate changes over time in an interdisciplinary group that was engaged in development work regarding pain and pain assessment.

Background: The outcomes of nursing research do not always find their way to the daily care of patients. This is evident within, for instance, physical rehabilitation, where relieving patients' pain is a major challenge.

Social support and its association with health-related quality of life among older patients with chronic heart failure.

Background: Social support is generally known to influence health-related quality of life (HRQoL), but this association is not well explored among older patients with chronic heart failure.

Aims: (1) To describe social support in older patients with chronic heart failure in relation to gender. (2) To investigate if age, gender, cohabitation, perceived financial situation, and disease severity are associated with social support.

How to make a workplace health promotion questionnaire process applicable, meaningful and sustainable.

Background: In workplace health promotion, a questionnaire could be of great use. Unfortunately, fatigue regarding answering questionnaires has recently become greater than before. An action research approach could be a possible way of increasing employee participation.

Sense of security - searching for its meaning by using stories: a Participatory Action Research study in health and social care in Sweden.

Aim: The aim of this study was to make sense of the Swedish concept 'trygghet' by using stories from daily life in a Participatory Action Research project.

Background: In Sweden, attempts to implement core values to ensure high quality health and social care for older people are given high priority and concepts such as security and dignity are often used. As concepts are abstract they are difficult to transform into practical work.

What happens when you involve patients as experts? a participatory action research project at a renal failure unit.

Although there is a trend towards developing health care in a patient-centred direction, changes are usually planned by the professionals without involving the patients. This paper presents an ongoing participatory action research project where patients with chronic renal failure, nurses at a specialist renal failure unit, a hospital manager and a researcher worked together to develop patient-centred care. The project combined the expertise of patients in their own experiences of living with a chronic condition with the professional expertise of nurses, the manager and the researcher.

To find inner peace: soft massage as an established and integrated part of palliative care.

The aim of this study was to demonstrate how people with incurable cancer experienced soft massage in a palliative care setting in which massage was used as an established and integrated part of the nursing care. To reach a deep understanding of the experiences of receiving soft massage a qualitative method with a phenomenological approach was chosen. The study was based on interviews with eight patients in an advanced home care setting who had all received soft massage as part of their daily care.

Telling stories from everyday practice, an opportunity to see a bigger picture: a participatory action research project about developing discharge planning.

In spite of laws, rules and routines, findings from Swedish as well as international research show that discharge planning is not a simple matter. There is considerable knowledge about discharge planning, but the quality of the actual process in practice remains poor. With this in mind, a research and developmental health and social care network decided to use participation action research to explore the discharge planning situation in order to generate new ideas for development.

Predictors for health related quality of life in persons 65 years or older with chronic heart failure.

Background: A main goal in nursing care of persons with chronic heart failure (HF) is to strengthen their health related quality of life (HRQoL). This presupposes knowledge about the relation between heart failure and HRQoL. Existing studies have shown incongruent results about whether HRQoL is affected differently depending on age or sex of elderly persons with chronic HF.

Life satisfaction among older people (65+) with reduced self-care capacity: the relationship to social, health and financial aspects.

Aims And Objectives: This study aimed at investigating life satisfaction and its relation to living conditions, overall health, self-care capacity, feeling lonely, physical activities and financial resources among people (65+) with reduced self-care capacity.

Background: Knowledge about factors related to low life satisfaction among older people with reduced self-care capacity is sparse, although this is important in health care and nursing so that the care is adapted to their needs and perspective. Previous research has mainly focused on isolated aspects such as pain in relation to life satisfaction among older people in general and less among so those with reduced self-care capacity in general.