Risks as dilemmas for home care staff caring for persons with dementia
| Autor: | Lena Rosenberg, Linda Sandberg, Lena Borell |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Gerontology
Activities of daily living 030214 geriatrics business.industry Focus Groups medicine.disease Home Care Services 03 medical and health sciences Psychiatry and Mental health 0302 clinical medicine mental disorders medicine Dementia Humans Geriatrics and Gerontology Pshychiatric Mental Health business Risk assessment Care staff 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Qualitative Research |
| Zdroj: | Agingmental health. 25(9) |
| ISSN: | 1364-6915 |
| Popis: | Many persons with dementia live at home with support from home care services. Despite this, research is scarce concerning how risks in daily life among persons with dementia are perceived and handled by home care staff. This study aimed to explore how home care staff identify risks in the everyday lives of persons with dementia, and to inquire into how they reasoned about their own actions related to those risks.A qualitative approach was applied for the study. Both individual interviews and focus groups were conducted with home care staff (Identifying, reasoning and acting upon risks in the everyday lives of persons with dementia were related to several dilemmas for the home care staff. These dilemmas are described and elaborated on in three categories: 1) Strategies for tracking risks, 2) Dilemmas concerning where to draw the line and deciding when to act, and 3) Dilemmas when acting on risks.The study provides new knowledge about the dilemmas that staff in home care services may face and how they reason about managing risks in the homes of persons with dementia. The study shows that the staff had to weigh risk and safety against the autonomy of persons with dementia. Based on these findings, we want to highlight the importance of competence among home care staff and the organizational conditions that must exist in order to manage the challenges of risky situations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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