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- Carling Elofsson, Linnea, et al.
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Meanings of being old and living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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Ingår i: PALLIATIVE MEDICINE. - : SAGE Publications. - 0269-2163 .- 1477-030X. ; 18:7, s. 611-618
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this study was to achieve a deeper understanding of the meaning of the lived experiences of elderly persons who are severely ill with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and in need of everyday care. Narratives from dialogues with six persons were interpreted using phenomenological–hermeneutic methodology. The structural analyses showed severe problems in daily life due to old age with a decaying body and dialectic experiences of resignation–contentedness, loneliness–connectedness, and being homeless–being at home. The interpreted whole reveals that life, suffering and comfort must be understood as an interlaced experience where ageing is just as important as the experience of illness. These elderly people's concerns and problems due to old age, a decaying body and being severely ill with COPD call for palliative and comfort care and thus challenge all professionals involved in their care.
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- Elofsson Carling, Linnéa, et al.
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Meanings of living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in old age
- 2004
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Ingår i: Palliative Medicine. - 0269-2163. ; 8, s. 611-18
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this study was to achieve a deeper understanding of the meaning of the lived experiences of elderly persons who are severely ill with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and in need of everyday care. Narratives from dialogues with six persons were interpreted using phenomenological-hermeneutic methodology. The structural analyses showed severe problems in daily life due to old age with a decaying body and dialectic experiences of resignation-contentedness, loneliness-connectedness, and being homeless-being at home. The interpreted whole reveals that life, suffering and comfort must be understood as an interlaced experience where ageing is just as important as the experience of illness. These elderly people's concerns and problems due to old age, a decaying body and being severely ill with COPD call for palliative and comfort care and thus challenge all professionals involved in their care.
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- Öhlén, Joakim, 1958, et al.
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Exploration of communicative patterns of consultations in palliative cancer care.
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Ingår i: European journal of oncology nursing : the official journal of European Oncology Nursing Society. - : Elsevier BV. - 1462-3889 .- 1532-2122. ; 12:1, s. 44-52
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Building on the research conducted on institutional communication, and the analysis of actual communication taking place in clinical settings, this study describes and highlights features of palliative care consultations and focuses on the distribution of discursive space (i.e., share of words, lengths of turns), occurring topics and conversational frames. Six consultations between physicians, patients and significant others were videotaped and all participants took part in audio-taped interviews. The recordings were transcribed and analysed in regard to expectations of, the discursive space of, and topics addressed in the consultations. The distribution of the discursive space was unequal; the physicians had the greatest share of words and length of turns in all six consultations, and they mostly initiated discussion of medical issues connected to examinations and treatment, while only patients initiated the topic of the patient's future. During the consultations, institutional framing tended to dominate over client framing. There was found to be room for further study of the structure and content of palliative care consultations with emphasis on how the voice of the patient can manifest itself within the framework of the medical agenda of the consultation and its significance for palliative cancer team work.
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