Engaging with older people about digital technologies through nongovernmental organizations: A scoping review.

Introduction: This scoping review investigates the extent and nature of existing evidence on the role of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and related mechanisms of engagement and challenges in issues of caring for older persons through digital technologies. We map research and practice gaps, contributing factors and best practices in NGOs. The rising use of digital technology in health care and the role that NGOs have in supporting older people in this context is relevant to nurses and service development leaders, particularly in the context of a rapidly changing care in the 21 century.

Surgical patients' assessment of healthcare encounters after elective surgery: A descriptive study.

Introduction: A Norwegian-Danish research team identified a gap in research regarding how surgical patients felt about their post-operative care needs being met in hospitals. A study was subsequently developed to understand their subjective assessments of how they value the perceived fulfilment of their actual care needs. The study was further informed by international calls to focus on the fundamentals of care practice.

Healthcare professionals' experiences of eHealth in palliative care for older people: challenges, compromises and the price of dignity.

Purpose: To explore whether and how eHealth solutions support the dignity of healthcare professionals and patients in palliative care contexts.

Method: This qualitative study used phenomenographic analysis involving four focus group interviews, with healthcare professionals who provide palliative care to older people.

Results: Analysis revealed four categories of views on working with eHealth in hierarchical order: and .

Caring touch as communication in intensive care nursing: a qualitative study.

Purpose: This article describes intensive care nurses` experiences of using communicative caring touch as stroking the patient`s cheek or holding his hand. Our research question: "What do intensive care nurses communicate through caring touch?"

Methods: In this qualitative hermeneutically based study data from two intensive care units at Norwegian hospitals are analysed. Eight specialist nurses shared experiences through individual, semi-structured interviews.

Well-being and dignity in innovative digitally-led healthcare for aged adults.

Dignity is a central value in care for aged adults, and it must be protected and respected. With demographic changes leading to an aging population, health ministries are increasingly investing in digitalization. However, using unfamiliar digital technology can be challenging and thus impact aged adults' dignity and well-being.

Educational nutritional intervention to prevent loss of health-related quality of life among older adults after a surgical treatment: design of a randomised controlled trial.

Background: Disease-related malnutrition after a hospital stay has major consequences for older adults, the healthcare system and society. This study aims to develop and test the effectiveness of an educational video to prevent loss of health-related quality of life among live-at-home older adults after surgical treatment in a hospital.

Method: This randomised controlled trial will occur at a regional hospital in Norway.

Suffering while resigning to an unacceptable violation of dignity.

Background: The interaction of health personnel with relatives is linked to the quality of care results in nursing homes. However, there is limited knowledge of how relatives perceive being an integral part of the nursing home context. This secondary analysis has its starting point in an ethical concern about relatives' experiences in a previous study.

Patients' expectations of and experiences with psychosocial care needs in perioperative nursing: a descriptive study.

Background: Meeting inpatients' psychosocial care needs is essential for their wellbeing, recovery, and positive experiences. This study aimed to describe and compare surgical inpatients' subjective perceptions of the importance of fundamental psychosocial and overall care received.

Methods: A descriptive study with a convenient sample was conducted from September 2019 to April 2020.

National digital strategies and innovative eHealth policies concerning older adults' dignity: a document analysis in three Scandinavian countries.

Background: Scandinavian countries are internationally recognised for leading the way in older adult care and in digitally transforming healthcare. Dignity has become a central value in care for older adults in all three Scandinavian countries. Investigating documents about digitalisation in these countries can offer insights into how the dignity of older adults is impacted by digitally transforming healthcare.

Wearable devices in palliative care for people 65 years and older: A scoping review.

Objective: The objective of this scoping review is to map existing evidence on the use of wearable devices in palliative care for older people.

Methods: The databases searched included MEDLINE (via Ovid), Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) and Google Scholar, which was included to capture grey literature. Databases were searched in the English language, without date restrictions.

Dignity at stake - relatives' experiences of influencing dignified care in nursing homes.

Background: Dignity, in the care of older nursing home residents, has been an increasingly part of the public discourse the recent years. Despite a growing body of knowledge about dignity and indignity in nursing homes, we have less knowledge of how relatives experience their role in this context. This study is a follow-up to a previous study in nursing homes, which gave rise to concern about the relatives' descriptions of residents' dignity.

Promotion of physical activity in older adults: facilitators and barriers experienced by healthcare personnel in the context of reablement.

Background: Being physically active is important for maintaining function and independence in older age. However, there is insufficient knowledge about how to successfully promote physical activity (PA) among home-dwelling older adults with functional challenges in real-life healthcare settings. Reablement is an interdisciplinary, person-centered approach to restoring function and independence among older adults receiving home care services; it also may be an opportunity to promote PA.

Caring touch in intensive care nursing: a qualitative study.

Background: Historically, caring touch was integrated in targeted nursing acts as shoulder massage, calming patients or to check vital parameters by touching the patient`s skin. However, this phenomenon in intensive care nursing still lacks convincing descriptions. Caring touch is an important part of being an intensive care nurse and confirming the patient`s dignity.

Older adults` sense of dignity in digitally led healthcare.

Background: Health ministries in Europe are investing increasingly in innovative digital technologies. Older adults, who have not grown up with digital innovation, are expected to keep up with technological shifts as much as other age groups. This is ethically challenging, as it may threaten a sense of dignity and well-being in older adults.

User participation in perioperative hospital care research: a methodological framework for a research program.

It is important to study the well-being of patients and their relatives after receiving hospital treatment, as both the healthcare professional and the political attention towards user participation is constantly increasing. In this study, user participation is understood as a way to manage the user's rights, opportunity for choices and human rights through relationships and with their well-being as a common goal. Therefore, the health professionals' understanding of this must be increased, evidence must increasingly form the basis for the chosen actions and the professional management must support a person-oriented clinical practice.

Telehealth and digital developments in society that persons 75 years and older in European countries have been part of: a scoping review.

Background: Demographic changes are leading to an ageing population in Europe. People are becoming more dependent on digital technologies and health ministries invest increasingly in digitalisation. Societal digital demands impact older people and learning to use new telehealth systems and digital devices are seen as a means of securing their needs.

Promotion of Physical Activity Through Reablement for Older Adults: Exploring Healthcare Professionals' Clinical Reasoning.

Introduction: Reablement is an interdisciplinary, multifactorial, and individualized intervention aimed at improving function and maintaining the independence of community-dwelling older adults who receive home care services. Physical activity (PA) is important for functional ability in older adults, but it is unclear how PA is promoted through reablement. Healthcare professionals' (HCPs) clinical reasoning and decision-making are essential and determine how reablement is delivered to individuals.

Enduring life in between a sense of renewal and loss of courage: lifeworld perspectives one year after hip fracture.

: To explore everyday life experiences of being active in aged adults´ with walking impairment one year after hip fracture (HF).: A phenomenological-hermeneutic study design is based on Heidegger´s and Gadamer´s thinking focusing on aged adults being-in-the-world one year after HF. Individual semi-structured interviews were conducted from May to July 2017 in the homes of nine participants, who were part of a longitudinal qualitative study with four interview-rounds for a period of 18 months after the HF event.

Being cross pressured-parents' experiences of the transfer from paediatric to adult care services for their young people with long term conditions: A systematic review and qualitative research synthesis.

Background: Family members of young people (13-24 years) with long-term conditions tend to experience multiple challenges when their children transfer from paediatric to adult care, as do the patients themselves.

Objectives: To identify, interpret and theoretically conceptualise the meaning of parents' experiences of the transfer from paediatric to adult care of their young people with long-term conditions.

Design: A qualitative research synthesis.

Integration of Physical Activity in Reablement for Community Dwelling Older Adults: A Systematic Scoping Review.

Background: Reablement is a rehabilitative intervention provided to homecare receivers with the aim of improving function and independence. There is limited evidence of the effectiveness of reablement, and the content of these interventions is variable. Physical activity (PA) is known to be important for improving and maintaining function among older adults, but it is unclear how PA is integrated in reablement.

Effectiveness of individualised nutritional care plans to reduce malnutrition during hospitalisation and up to 3 months post-discharge: a systematic scoping review.

Objectives: The prevalence of malnutrition after hospitalisation is reported to be 20%-45%, which may lead to adverse outcomes, as malnutrition increases the risk of complications, morbidity, mortality and loss of function. Improving the quality of nutritional treatment in hospitals and post-discharge is necessary, as hospital stays tend to be short. We aimed to identify and map studies that assess the effectiveness of individualised nutritional care plans to reduce malnutrition during hospitalisation and for the first 3 months post-discharge.

Being with others during physical activity: experiences of well-being among adults with severe obesity.

Background: The experience of physical activity is influenced by social relations and gendered roles. Group-based lifestyle interventions are considered effective in promoting physical activity, yet the experiences of being active with others are unknown among individuals with severe obesity.

Purpose: To explore how individuals with severe obesity experience being with others during physical activity.

Citizen-Patient Involvement in the Development of mHealth Technology: Protocol for a Systematic Scoping Review.

Background: The development of mobile technology for information retrieval and communication, both at individual and health organizational levels, has been extensive over the last decade. Mobile health (mHealth) technology is rapidly adapting to the health care service contexts to improve treatment, care, and effectiveness in health care services.

Objective: The overall aim of this scoping review is to explore the role of citizen-patient involvement in the development of mHealth technology in order to inform future interventions.

Being active 1½ years after hip fracture: a qualitative interview study of aged adults' experiences of meaningfulness.

Background: Being active is vital and a source of well-being. However, 18 months after hip fracture (HF), progress seems to have come to a halt. Aged adults may feel vulnerable, experiencing ongoing dependency and limited possibilities for socializing.

Balancing one's mood: experiences of physical activity in adults with severe obesity 18 months after lifestyle intervention.

Background: Patients with severe obesity may have special challenges in regard to increasing health and well-being through physical activity (PA). The biggest challenge is maintaining the recommended PA level on a long-term basis. Yet, little focus has been put on the experiences of individuals with severe obesity during PA when physically active in everyday life after intervention has ended.