Objective: Older persons receiving home care express more cues and concerns compared to other clinical contexts. Increased health condition complexity requires a corresponding increase in nursing competence. The aim of this study was to explore how complexity of older persons' health and nature of the visit influenced their expressed worries.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Given the free movement of workers across countries, knowledge regarding communication differences between countries is imperative. In this study, we explored and compared the supportive responses of nursing staff to older persons' emotions in home care in Norway and Sweden.
Methods: The study had an observational, cross-sectional, comparative design, which included 383 audio-recorded home-care visits.
Background: The aim of the study was to explore the thematic content of older persons' expressed worries in home care visits, and how nursing staff respond to different thematic contents.
Methods: The study had a descriptive, observational design, including 195 audio-recorded Norwegian home care visits with 33 nursing staff and 48 older persons. In all, 638 patient cues/concerns (worries) and subsequent nursing staff's responses were identified using Verona Coding Definitions of Emotional Sequences.
Background: Responding to older people's distress by acknowledging or encouraging further discussion of emotions is central to supportive, person-centred communication, and may enhance home care outcomes and thereby promote healthy aging. This observational study describes nursing staff's responses to older people's emotional distress, and identify factors that encourage further emotional disclosure.
Methods: Audio-recorded home care visits in Norway ( = 196), including 48 older people and 33 nursing staff, were analysed with the Verona Coding Definitions of Emotional Sequences, identifying expressions of emotional distress and subsequent provider responses.
Aims And Objectives: To describe the characteristics of communication practice in home care visits between older people (over 65 years old) and nurse assistants and to discuss the findings from a person-centered perspective.
Background: The older population is increasing worldwide, along with the need for healthcare services in the person's home. To achieve a high-quality care, person-centered communication is crucial.
Objective: Little is known about how older persons in home care express their concerns. Emotional cues and concerns can be identified by the Verona coding definitions of emotional sequences (VR-CoDES), but the method gives no insight into what causes the distress and the emotions involved. The aims of this study are to explore (1) older persons' worries and (2) the content of these expressions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: This paper presents an international cross-sectional study on person-centred communication with older people receiving healthcare (COMHOME). Person-centred care relies on effective communication, but few studies have explored this with a specific focus on older people. The main aim of the COMHOME study is to generate knowledge on person-centred communication with older people (>65 years) in home healthcare services, radiographic and optometric practice.
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