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The purpose of the essay was to investigate how older people's self-determination inretirement home is met, this through the care staff's perspective. To get an answer on thepurpose we used a qualitative method where we interviewed six care staff. Five of these weretrained assistant nurses and one of them worked as a care assistant, all interviewed haddifferent years of experience from the profession. Qualitative content analysis was used toanalyze the data collected through the interviews. Through the qualitative content analysis,several steps have been performed to analyze data, the work consisted of among other things,finding units of meaning, codes and then formulating themes. The results showed that theolder person, living in retirement home, may decide for himself at certain points in everydaylife. At the same time, the older person is not allowed to decide for himself to a greater extent.This dependes on both lack of time and care staff, additional factors that are affected by olderpeople's right to self - determination were physical and / or cognitive impairment. The resultwill also be that the care staff have an established value base of workers with and which isimplemented in their daily work. An analysis was made using the theoretical concept,motivation. The analysis showed, among other things, that external motivation, pressure fromthe chief in the form of lack of time and care staff lead to the elderly person not being met withself-determination to a greater extent. It also emerged from the analysis that internalmotivation in the form of dialogue and feedback from the chief at workplace meetingsregarding values base could contribute to increasing self-determination for the elderly inretirement home. |
