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- Pietilä Rosendahl, Sirpa, PhD, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, et al.
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Twinship experienced by twins reared apart versus together
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Ingår i: The Gerontologist. - : Oxford University Press. - 0016-9013 .- 1758-5341. ; 54:Suppl_2, s. 111-112
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim was to explore and describe how older twins reared apart and reared together experience the twin relationship over a life course. Method: The life stories of 30 Swedish older (70+) identical and fraternal twins were analyzed with qualitative content analysis. Results: The relationship patterns among twins reared apart were related to the time of separation, family upbringing, time together after re-union and over the life course. Twins who spent their first years in the biological family and thereafter separated could continue their relationship over the life course, showing the same kind of relationship patterns as twins reared together. Twins who were separated during their first year after birth and reunited several years later showed a more complex relationship pattern, where some lacked an emotionally close relationship and others gradually developed such a relationship over the years. This finding challenges popular views on twins reared apart being emotionally close.
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- Pietilä Rosendahl, Sirpa, PhD, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer
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Gender Differences in Life Long Influences of Twins : How Men and Women talk about These Influences
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Ingår i: The Gerontologist. - : Oxford University Press. - 0016-9013 .- 1758-5341. ; 55:Suppl_2, s. 584-585
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim was to explore how male and female older twins experience their lifelong relationship with one another. Method: Qualitative data consisting of 32 life stories of Swedish older (70+) identical and fraternal twins were analyzed with narrative analysis. Results: Both male and female older twins experienced their twin relationships as the emotionally closest as related to other sibling relationships. Female twins stressed open and frequent communication as an important aspect contributing to closeness in the twin relationship, whereas the male twins related closeness to doing activities together. Dependency was stressed as emotionally draining in the female twin relationships, meaning that both of the twin sisters had not separated emotionally from one another. In contrast, the male older twins talked about competition as an aspect that was emotionally draining. Males and females define emotional closeness differently. The relationship patterns for both female/male older twins remained stable over the life course.
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- Pietilä Rosendahl, Sirpa, PhD, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer
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Twinship from a family perspective : experiences of adults twins, their non-twin siblings and parents
- 2017
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Ingår i: Innovation in Aging. - : Oxford University Press. - 2399-5300. ; 1:suppl_1, s. 943-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Twins do not exist apart from a family and, for a more comprehensive understanding, twinship needs to be seen in its family context. The objective of this study was to explore twinship from the perspectives of adult twins, their non-twin siblings and parents. Methods: Qualitative methodology based on semi-structured interviews of middle-aged twins, their non-twin siblings and parents within their families. The data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Findings: Twinship was described by the twins as an emotionally close relationship with the co-twin but also feeling unnoticed as individuals when treated as a ‘unit’ by family members. Likewise, the older non-twin siblings could feel unnoticed, due to the parental attention given to the twins and, to compensate, take on a ‘caregiving role’ for the twins. Depending on the parents’ insights on twinship, they could facilitate or limit the development of the sibling relationships within the family.
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- Pietilä Rosendahl, Sirpa, PhD, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer
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Twinship from the perspective of older twins and their siblings
- 2016
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Ingår i: The Gerontologist. - : Oxford University Press. - 0016-9013 .- 1758-5341. ; 56:Suppl_3, s. 494-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of twinship as described by older twins and their siblings. Method: Qualitative data based on interviews with 14 Swedish older (70+) identical and fraternal twins and with 15 siblings to twins, which were analyzed with qualitative content analysis. Results indicate that the siblings particularly in larger families substituted as parents in the raising of the twins, whereas in smaller families the role of the siblings were more unclear. In addition to bonding to one another, both twins also found comfort in having a supportive relationship of their own with yet one other sibling in the family and influential in the developing of the individual identity of the twins. For the siblings of the twins, engaging in the raising of the twins, was a way to prevent the feeling of being unnoticed.
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- Pietilä Rosendahl, Sirpa, PhD, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer, et al.
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Twinship over the life course : Individuality and relationship in the life stories of older twins
- 2013
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Ingår i: The Gerontologist. - : Oxford University Press. - 0016-9013 .- 1758-5341. ; 53:S1, s. 431-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim was to explore, describe and understand experiences of twinship as told in the life stories of 35 older (70+) identical and fraternal twins, participants of the SATSA and Gender-studies in Sweden. Method: The open-ended interviews were analyzed with narrative analysis. Results: Twinship was described as relational, i.e, the relationship to the co-twin and as a negotiation between the individual and the twin identity. Three kinds of twin relationship patterns, characterized by different levels of emotional involvement were identified and labelled: nurturing, draining or superficial relationship. An attachment theoretical perspective was used in interpreting the differences in the relationship patterns. Each set of twins showed a unique balance between individualization and the twin identity which also was linked to the type of twin relationship pattern. In addition, these older twins experienced that their social environment tried to impose a twin identity upon them contradictive to their own experiences.
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- Söderman, Mirkka, et al.
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Caring for the ethnic elders suffering from dementia – experiences of nursing staff
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aim: The aim of this study was to describe and compare the experiences of nursing staff caring for ethnic elderly persons suffering from dementia in an ethnic care setting and a Swedish-speaking care setting. Background: The numbers of ethnic elderly persons who speaks only their native language and are suffering from dementia are growing. As the dementia progresses into its ́ advanced stage the person suffering from dementia first loses the second language and later the native language and needs to be admitted to institutional care. In some municipalities in Sweden ethnic elders suffering from dementia receives care in an ethnic care setting where the persons` native language is spoken, but most ethnic elders suffering from dementia receives care in Swedish-speaking institutions. In terms of communication this may be a challenge for the nursing staff. Methods: The study has a qualitative approach with 27 semi-structured interviews. Data consist of 12 interviews with Finnish-speaking nursing staff working in a Finnish-speaking group home for persons suffering from dementia in Sweden and of 15 interviews with nursing staff working in Swedish-speaking group homes caring for non-Swedish older persons with dementia. The material is analysed with qualitative analysis. Findings: The experiences of the nursing staff showed that caring for the patients in a Finnish-speaking environment meant that they could communicate with the patients in their native language, which in turn stimulated the cognitive, physiological and social abilities of the person with dementia. Besides the language, the Finnish-speaking nursing staff also included cultural aspects such as Finnish music, food and media into the daily life in the care. The nursing staff in the Swedish-speaking group homes, perceived that all patients received equal basic care, but as they did not speak the patients` language communication was limited The language barrier resulted in behavioural disturbances at times in the non-Swedish patients with dementia. Implications: The two types of care settings were compared and besides a mutual language, the bilingual staff in the Finnish-speaking group home were able to include more of the cultural aspects which all together contributed to a sense of homeness for the Finnish elders with dementia. The care in the Swedish-speaking group homes was considered good and equal, but was also experienced as limited and frustrating by the Swedish-speaking nursing staff. Other strategies to communicate with the patients had were used and which will be further discussed.
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