Enabling At-Homeness for Older People With Life-Limiting Conditions: A Participant Observation Study From Nursing Homes.

At-homeness, as an aspect of well-being, can be experienced despite living with life-limiting conditions and needs for a palliative approach to care. In nursing homes, older residents with life-limiting conditions face losses and changes which could influence their experience of at-homeness. The aim of this study was to explore how nursing staff enable at-homeness for residents with life-limiting conditions.

Enabling at-homeness for residents living in a nursing home: Reflected experience of nursing home staff.

Older people are often living the last period of their lives in institutions such as nursing homes. Knowledge of this period, specifically related to at-homeness which can be described as wellbeing in spite of illness and has been regarded as one of the goals in palliative care, has been very little researched in the context of nursing homes and the experience of nursing home staff. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of nursing home staff of how to enable at-homeness for residents.

Temporally and spatially shaped meanings of at-homeness among people 85 years and over with severe illness.

Aims And Objectives: The aim of the study was to illuminate how meanings of at-homeness are temporally and spatially shaped by older people with severe illness.

Background: At-homeness can be understood as a feeling of being metaphorically at-home while experiencing well-being. The research field of at-homeness among older people with severe illness is under researched and knowledge about how at-homeness is shaped by time and place is limited.

Meanings of at-homeness at end-of-life among older people.

Maintaining the well-being of older people who are approaching the end-of-life has been recognised as a significant aspect of well-being in general. However, there are few studies that have explicitly focused on at-homeness among older people. This study aims to illuminate meanings of at-homeness among older people with advancing illnesses.

A model for implementing guidelines for person-centered care in a nursing home setting.

Background: Systematic evaluations of knowledge translation interventions in nursing homes to improve practice are scarce. There is also a lack of studies focusing on creating sustainable evidence-based practice in the setting of residential dementia care.

Methods: The aim of this paper is to describe a model for implementing national evidence-based guidelines for care of persons with dementia in nursing homes.

Power relations in patient's experiences of suffering during treatment for cancer.

Aim: This paper is a report of how patients who have cancer experience suffering in the context of power relations.

Background: Many studies in Sweden and in other countries have detected inequality in healthcare use and resources, including unseen influences that can be connected to gender and distribution of resources. Few studies have examined how multiple relations of power - such as gender, ethnicity, age and education - influence how people with cancer experience suffering during treatment.