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Participation in older home care recipients
— a value-based process | | Author(s) | Aud Elisabeth Witso, Kjersti Vik, Borgunn Ytterhus |
| Journal title | Activities, Adaptation and Aging, vol 36, no 4, October-December 2012 |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis, October-December 2012 |
| Pages | pp 297-316 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Home care services ; Activities of older people ; Social policy ; Norway. |
| Annotation | This article aimed to increase the understanding of participation when ageing in place. The qualitative interviews of 10 cognitively healthy Norwegian home care recipients (age ranges 72_89 years) illuminate how they describe participation in everyday life. The core category identified was `keeping up dignity and pride', representing a value-based process of fending for oneself, including accepting and acting on changing capacity, and concentrating on being an agent in everyday life. Additionally the two categories `getting oneself going' and `keeping one's place: at home, in the neighborhood, and in family' included the older adults' descriptions and understanding of participation in their everyday lives. In order to promote participation the professionals in home care services must recognise and give attention to the older adults' variety of participatory strategies in everyday life. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130208225 A |
| Classmark | NH: G: TM2: 76N |
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