Framing moving and handling as a complex healthcare intervention within the acute care of older people with osteoporosis: a qualitative study.

Aims And Objectives: To investigate healthcare staff's views and experiences of caring for older hospitalised adults (aged 60+) with osteoporosis focusing on moving and handling. Specific objectives were to explore the composition of manual handling risk assessments and interventions in osteoporosis.

Background: Osteoporosis is a skeletal disease that reduces bone density and causes increased fracture risk.

'Therapeutic emplotment': a new paradigm to explore the interaction between nurses and patients with a long-term illness.

Aims: This paper presents a discussion of the use of 'therapeutic emplotment' during health professional-patient interactions when caring for patients with a long-term illness, with implications for nursing.

Background: Therapeutic emplotment' develops from two philosophical strains: one emphasizing the connection of speech to actions, the other the linguistically mediated nature of human experience. Mattingly defines therapeutic emplotment as the creation of story-like structures through therapist-patient interactions which encourage the patient to see therapy as integral to healing.