Together, at a distance: experiences with a novel technology for social contact among older people and their relatives in Norway during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: The recognition that people are social beings is fundamental for person-centered care. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the lives of older people were restricted in ways that dramatically reduced their opportunities for face-to-face contact. Limited contact with family members due to social distancing raised concerns about the well-being of older people.

Normalization of technology for social contact in a Norwegian care facility during COVID-19.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has seen unprecedented growth in the use of interactive technologies in care facilities for social contact between residents and their close contacts due to the need for social distancing. As the pandemic is transitioning into a new phase, there is a need to critically examine the new practices associated with technology usage.

Objective: Our analysis is based on a case study of how a care facility in western Norway adopted a novel technology called KOMP.

Improving everyday life of people with dementia living at home: Health care professionals' experiences.

Aim: This study investigates what health care professionals experience is important for improving everyday life of people with dementia living at home.

Background: A prerequisite for living at home is that people with dementia and their relatives can handle everyday life together despite the challenges that dementia poses.

Methods: This qualitative study conducted focus group interviews (n = 14), and the data were analysed using qualitative content analysis.

Promoting activity in long-term care facilities with the social robot Pepper: a pilot study.

About 40 000 individuals depend on assisted living in long-term care facilities in Norway. Around 80% of these have a cognitive impairment or suffer from dementia. This actualizes the need for activities that are tailored to individual needs.

Moral distress - a threat to dementia care? A qualitative study of nursing staff members' experiences in long-term care facilities.

Background: Dementia is a public health priority worldwide due to its rapidly increasing prevalence and poses challenges with regard to providing proper care, including end-of-life care. This study is part of a research project about nursing staff members' experiences with providing palliative care for people with severe dementia in long-term care facilities. In an earlier study, we found that structural barriers that complicated the provision of palliative care led to moral distress among nursing staff.

Improvised use of a digital tool for social interaction in a Norwegian care facility during the COVID-19 pandemic: an exploratory study.

Background: Digital tools for social communication have been deployed in care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic to facilitate social connectedness between older people and their next of kin in a safe manner. This study explores how and why health care professionals facilitate the ad hoc and prompt use of a technology for social communication, known as KOMP, in care facilities in western Norway to promote communication and social engagement among residents and their next of kin during the crisis.

Methods: To investigate the perspectives and practices of health care professionals, we conducted focus groups, individual interviews, and participant observation in public short- and long-term care facilities in western Norway.

Coping with Everyday Life for Home-Dwelling Persons with Dementia: A Qualitative Study.

Aim: This study aimed to gain insight into factors that influence everyday coping strategies as described by persons with early to intermediate dementia.

Background: Living with dementia presents difficulties coping with everyday life. This study focuses on coping with everyday life for persons with mild to moderate dementia in order to facilitate their ability to live at home.

Informal caregivers and persons with dementia's everyday life coping.

This qualitative study explores informal caregivers' experiences of supporting persons with dementia's everyday life coping. In the future, there will be fewer health personnel, increased dementia prevalence and limited nursing home availability. Accordingly, close relatives may be compelled to assume greater care responsibilities.

How Volunteers Contribute to Persons with Dementia Coping in Everyday Life.

Introduction: The society needs volunteers to fulfill its duty to ensure that people with dementia have active and meaningful everyday lives. Volunteers seem to experience their work as positive and meaningful for their own part, but we know less about what motivates volunteers to start working in home-dwelling dementia care and what motivates them to continue their engagement. This study seeks to close some of the knowledge gaps that exist regarding volunteers' engagement in activities for persons with dementia.

Perceived barriers and facilitators in providing palliative care for people with severe dementia: the healthcare professionals' experiences.

Background: Dementia has become a major public health issue worldwide due to its rapidly increasing prevalence and an increasing number of dementia-related deaths in long-term care facilities. The aim of this study was to examine health professionals' experiences of potential barriers and facilitators in providing palliative care for people with severe dementia in long-term care facilities.

Methods: This was a qualitative descriptive study.

A painful experience of limited understanding: healthcare professionals' experiences with palliative care of people with severe dementia in Norwegian nursing homes.

Background: People dying with dementia have significant healthcare needs, and palliative care, with its focus on comfort and quality of life, should be made available to these patients. The aim of this study was to explore and increase knowledge of healthcare professionals' experiences with palliative care to people with severe dementia in nursing homes.

Methods: To describe the phenomenon under investigation, we used a phenomenological research approach grounded in the philosophy of Husserl.

The influence of the learning climate on learning outcomes from Marte Meo counselling in dementia care.

Aim:   To identify factors that affected the learning outcomes from Marte Meo counselling (MMC).

Background:   Although MMC has shown promising results regarding learning outcomes for staff working in dementia-specific care units, the outcomes differ.

Method:   Twelve individual interviews and four focus group interviews with staff who had participated in MMC were analysed through a qualitative content analysis.

Insights gained through Marte Meo counselling: experiences of nurses in dementia specific care units.

Aim: This study sought to uncover what nurses perceived to have learned, during their participation in video supported counselling, based on Marte Meo principles, in four dementia specific care units.

Methods: This was a descriptive qualitative study. Data were collected through 12 individual and four focus group interviews.