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- Harnett, Tove, et al.
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Konceptbaserade äldreboenden - både likhet och variation
- 2018
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Ingår i: Äldreomsorger i Sverige : Lokala variationer och generella trender - Lokala variationer och generella trender. - 9789140697073 ; , s. 153-168
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- Jönson, Håkan, et al.
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Introduktion till antologin
- 2021
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Ingår i: Perspektiv på ålderism. - : Social Work Press. - 9789178955411 ; , s. 5-24
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- Jönson, Håkan, et al.
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Är olikheter och variation inom äldreomsorgen ett problem?
- 2018
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Ingår i: Äldreomsorger i Sverige : Lokala variationer och generella trender - Lokala variationer och generella trender. - : Gleerups Utbildning AB. - 9789140697073 ; , s. 9-20
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- Abboud, Amina, et al.
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Årsbok 2018 : Socialhögskolan, Lunds universitet
- 2019
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Socialhögskolans årsbok ger en liten inblick i vad vi gör och vi hoppas att den bidrar till att presentera utsnitt från vår verksamhet på ett trevligt och samlat sätt. Årsboken som är Socialhögskolans tredje uppmärksammar inte bara det som skett på Socialhögskolan under 2018. Den uppmärksammar även att 2018 var året då svensk äldreomsorg fyllde 100 år. Årsbokens gästredaktör Per Gunnar Edebalk inleder därför bokens forskningsavsnitt med att i år skriva om just hundraåringens historia. Det är inledningen på ett avsnitt där flera forskare vid Socialhögskolan bjuder på bidrag som lyfter fram aspekter av äldreomsorg och åldrande.Håkan Jönson och Tove Harnett resonerar om de begrepp som omgärdar äldreomsorgens möten och organisering sett i ett socialt arbetets perspektiv. De två har även skrivit en artikel om huruvida behov ska ses annorlunda mellan grupper bara för att man passerat en viss ålder.Däremellan presenteras en text av Erika Werner som låter oss möta frågor kring en sviken generation, här genom ett möte med Agnes, som hamnade mitt i skarven när pensionssystemet reformerades. Elisabeth Carlstedt presenterar en text om hur äldreomsorgens särskilda boenden arbetar i relation till Socialtjänstlagens direktiv om meningsfullhet och värdighet, och hur svårt det är. Lars Harrysson presenterar därefter ett avsnitt om två forskningsprojekt som han och Erika Werner gjort där fokus har legat dels på pensioner för personer i ekonomiskt utsatta grupper, speciellt med migrantbakgrund, dels om hur tro och äldreomsorg samspelar, eller inte. Äldreomsorgsavsnittet avslutas sedan med en intervju som Patrik Hekkala gjort med Peter Andersson som startade kursen socialt arbete med äldre och med Tove Harnett som tagit över och fortsatt utvecklingsarbetet till dags datum.Årsboken avslutas sedan med fyra texter. En av Amina Abboud, snart färdig socionom, som skriver om sina erfarenheter av och i uppsatsskrivandet. Sedan en där vi får möta Carina Olsson som arbetat hos oss länge, men som faktiskt arbetat vid universitetet i 40 år 2018. Emelie Dahlström, Joakim Grina och Jan Abrahamsson ger sedan en bakgrundsteckning till en hos Socialhögskolan verksam social accelerator, SoPact. Som avrundning finner du sedan lite mer information om vår verksamhet här vid Socialhögskolan.
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- Andersson, Gunvor, et al.
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Vårt ansvar för de svaga
- 2004
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Ingår i: En kompanjonbok till Forskningsetik och perspektivval : femton texter till Rosmari Eliasson-Lappalainen. - 9144035020
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- Andersson, Lars, 1947-, et al.
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Äldre som meriterad grupp?
- 2005
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Ingår i: Nye tider, nye livslöp, nye eldre?. - Oslo : Norsk selskap for aldersforskning. - 8299596831 ; , s. 125-133
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- Carlstedt, Elisabeth, et al.
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Amazing numbers and bottom rankings : the reporting of nursing home resident user surveys in the press
- 2021
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Ingår i: International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. - 0144-333X. ; 41:44877, s. 1264-1277
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: Media reporting is one of many circumstances that nursing homes have to relate to, because of the reputational risks. The aim of this article is to investigate media representations of Swedish nursing homes in relation to reports on an annual national user survey. Design/methodology/approach: The empirical data consist of 381 Swedish newspaper articles about the survey results. The questions guiding the analysis were: what messages on nursing homes are communicated, and how are claims organized in order to appear factual? Findings: The data show that press reports focus on comparisons of care units' survey results, eldercare representatives' explanations of the results, and what improvements will be made in order to do better in the next year's survey. With their use of truth-making rhetoric, press articles construct survey results as credible and valid, thus mirroring user perceptions and ultimately nursing home quality. The selection of nursing home representatives' comments equally reinforces the validity of claims. Originality/value: Given nursing homes' problems with demonstrating success, the authors argue that media reports on the user survey is a way for eldercare organizations to achieve results in an otherwise resultless field, and while media reports might be seen as prompting change in nursing home care, what is ultimately achieved is the legitimation of a costly survey with low response rate.
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- Carlstedt, Elisabeth, et al.
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Online representations of nursing-home life in Sweden : Perspectives from staff on content, purpose and audience
- 2020
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Ingår i: Ageing and Society. - 0144-686X. ; 40:12, s. 2754-2770
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article is based on a study of how social media and other types of online representations of nursing homes are described by staff. The study proceeds from a qualitative thematic analysis of 14 interviews with nursing-home representatives. The article addresses a key finding that was apparent in the interviews: the online representations' form and content were adjusted to fit the demands of residents' relatives. Given the peripheral role attributed to relatives in official Swedish eldercare policies, the motives for the online representations are systematically examined. Two motives are found to be central: marketing and assurance. Residents' relatives, specified as adult children, were perceived pre-admission as customers in charge of the process of choice and placement; post-admission, relatives requested proof that social activities were provided for their parents. The article discusses how online representations strategically construct a version of 'reality' by adjusting to relatives' unrealistic expectations, only showing residents as involved in social activities. Finally, the need to examine the actual role of relatives in Swedish eldercare is discussed.
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- Erlandsson, Sara, 1979-
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Hjälp för att bevara eller förändra? : Åldersrelaterade diskurser om omsorg, stöd och service
- 2014
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis analyses the categorisation of adult persons who need help to cope in everyday life as either older persons or persons with a disability. Despite the development of social services in the Scandinavian countries being guided by the principles of universalism and equality, adults in need of care have different rights to support depending on their current age and at which age disability occurs. This thesis aims to explore how age-based differences in access to care, support and service are legitimised. In the thesis, the concept of help is used to refer to care, support and service.Using a discourse analytic approach, Swedish elderly and disability policies and websites through which providers of help market their services were examined. The analysis, inspired by the theoretical framework of governmentality, draws attention to how users of help and helpers are constituted in two age-related discourses on help. The first discourse, help to maintain, is used mainly in relation to older persons. In this discourse older persons are constituted as subjects in need of safety, comfort and company while the helpers are represented as caring and knowing. The second discourse, help to change, constitutes younger persons with a disability as citizens in becoming. Help aims to improve the situation for younger help users in varying ways: the opportunity to fully determine the tasks performed by helpers is essential to users of personal assistance whereas personal development as regards both practical and social skills is the key to change for persons with an intellectual or mental disability. While help for younger persons is represented as a means to enhance the individual’s self-determination and ability to participate in society, help for older persons is represented as aiming to maintain past patterns of life, not aspiring towards change or improvement. It is argued that these representations support a lower ambition for eldercare than for disability services.
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- Granbom, Marianne, et al.
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Att vara äldre i socialt utsatta bostadsområden : Strategier och erfarenheter av att bo och leva på en plats där kriminalitet och störningar har blivit en del av vardagen
- 2022
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Ingår i: Perspektiv på utsatthet och problem under åldrandet. - : Socialhögskolan, Lunds universitet. - 9789178955473 - 9789178955480 ; , s. 15-33
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Sedan Polismyndigheten 2015 publicerade den första listan över socialt utsatta områden i svenska städer har problematiken där fått mycket uppmärksamhet i den politiska samhällsdebatten, i media och i forskning. På kommunal och nationell nivå diskuteras orsaker och möjliga lösningar rörande dåliga levnadsförhållanden, parallella maktstrukturer, kriminalitet och utanförskap. I fokus för diskussionerna är oftast barn, ungdomar och personer i arbetsför ålder, medan äldre personers perspektiv sällan lyfts. Vi vet i dag väldigt lite om de boende som på grund av hög ålder inte anses vara aktuella för utbildnings-, arbets- eller integrationsinsatser. Detta kapitel vill vi ägna åt erfarenheter, uppfattningar och strategier bland äldre personer som bor i utsatta områden i Sverige. Hur upplever de den kriminalitet och de störningar som pågår i området? Hur påverkar dessa händelser deras vardag och hur hanterar de i så fall det? Hur resonerar äldre personer om det rykte som deras bostadsområde fått? Materialet samlade vi in 2020 och 2021 genom intervjuer med 6 män och 16 kvinnor, 65 till 92 år gamla, i projektet ”Att vara äldre och leva i utsatta områden”. I kapitlet kommer vi att beskriva och diskutera de kriminella händelser som förekom, hur deltagarna hanterade dessa händelser, hur de förhöll sig till stigma samt hur de handgripligen bidrog till att förbättra områdets rykte.
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- Granbom, Marianne, et al.
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Older Adults Living in Disadvantaged Areas : Protocol for a Mixed Methods Baseline Study on Homes, Quality of Life, and Participation in Transitioning Neighborhoods
- 2022
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Ingår i: JMIR Research Protocols. - : JMIR Publications Inc.. - 1929-0748. ; 11:10, s. 1-10
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND: Swedish policy states that older adults should be able to age safely with continued independence and lead active lives. However, this plays out differently in different Swedish municipalities depending upon degree of demographic change, globalization, and urbanization. Internationally, older adults living in disadvantaged areas have worse physical and mental health, activity restrictions, and reduced life expectancy. In Sweden, research on how disadvantaged areas impact older adults' quality of life is virtually nonexistent. We argue that disadvantaged areas exist in both urban and rural contexts.OBJECTIVE: We aimed to investigate how older adults' homes and neighborhoods influence their community participation, quality of life, identity, and belonging in urban and rural disadvantaged areas in Sweden, and how these person-context dynamics are experienced by older adults in transitioning neighborhoods.METHODS: The study has a mixed methods design and includes 3 phases. Adults 65 years and older living in certain urban and rural disadvantaged areas in the south of Sweden will be included. Phase 1 is an interview study in which qualitative data are collected on neighborhood attachment, identity, and belonging through semistructured interviews and photo-elicitation interviews with 40 subjects. A variety of qualitative data analysis procedures are used. In phase 2, a survey study will be conducted to explore associations between observable and self-rated aspects of housing and neighborhood (physical, social, and emotional), participation, and quality of life; 400 subjects will be recruited and added to the 40 phase-1 subjects for a total of 440. The survey will include standardized measures and study-specific questions. Survey data will be analyzed with mainstream statistical analyses and structural equation modeling to understand the interactions between quality of life, home and neighborhood factors, and sociodemographic factors. In phase 3, the integration study, survey data from the 40 participants who participated in both data collections will be analyzed together with qualitative data with a mixed methods analysis approach.RESULTS: As of the submission of this protocol (August 2022), recruitment for the interview study is complete (N=39), and 267 participants have been recruited and have completed data collection in the survey study. We expect recruitment and data collection to be finalized by December 2022.CONCLUSIONS: With an increasing proportion of older adults, an increasing number of disadvantaged areas, and an increasing dependency ratio in more than 50% of Swedish municipalities, these municipalities are transforming and becoming increasingly segregated. This study will add unique knowledge on what it is like to be older in a disadvantaged area and deepen knowledge on housing and health dynamics in later life. Further, the design of the current study will allow future follow-up studies to facilitate longitudinal analysis (if funding is granted) on aging in a transforming societal context.INTERNATIONAL REGISTERED REPORT IDENTIFIER (IRRID): DERR1-10.2196/41255.
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- Harnett, Tove, et al.
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Eldercare with a profile – outlines for a typology.
- 2016
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Ingår i: Good Ageing, Better Society. The 23rd Nordic Congress of Gerontology (23 NKG), 19–22 June 2016, Tampere, Finland..
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- Harnett, Tove, et al.
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Enabling positive framings of stigmatised settings : a neglected responsibility for social work
- 2022
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Ingår i: European Journal of Social Work. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1369-1457 .- 1468-2664. ; 25:2, s. 238-249
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Settings in social work may be associated with spatial stigma. This study uses the case of a highly stigmatised setting to investigate ways of ascribing positive characteristics to tainted contexts. Guided by symbolic interactionism, the aim is to analyse how residents in ‘wet’ eldercare facilities manage to view these in a positive light. Wet eldercare facilities are designed for older people with long-term substance use problems, where abstinence is abandoned for well-being. Forty-two residents of four such facilities were interviewed, revealing how the hybrid status of these places enabled residents to frame their situation as being ‘in the right place’, but for different reasons. Some framed the place as a care home, others as an ordinary flat. Both frames were made credible by the formal hybrid organisation: Swedish wet eldercare facilities are part of the eldercare system, and residents’ rooms are formally regarded as flats. The study suggests that it is social work’s (often neglected) responsibility to counter spatial stigma and improve residents’ sense of dignity. Based on promising practices in the Swedish system, the study presents three strategies that enable residents in nominally tainted settings to ascribe positive characteristics to the place where they live.
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- Harnett, Tove, et al.
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Home Care in the Daily Lives of Older People : Protocol for an Ethnographic Two-Year Longitudinal Study
- 2023
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Ingår i: JMIR Research Protocols. - : JMIR Publications Inc.. - 1929-0748. ; 12
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Research on eldercare has been dominated by a provider-oriented perspective, concerned with the conditions and views of care providers. There are striking differences compared with the field of disability studies, where help is framed as part of a larger project of having a daily life and being included in society. Pilot interviews indicate that older people develop active strategies to make care work. These include practical preparations, emotional activities such as showing an interest in staff members’ lives, or rhetorical skills in asking for help. Objective: The aim of this project is to develop empirical and theoretical knowledge of eldercare as a relational practice, accomplished by older people in their daily lives. This perspective will also offer an alternative to ongoing attempts to reduce the user perspective to an issue about older people acting as customers in a market. Methods: The project will map, investigate, and follow up on care use from the perspective of care users. The project has an ethnographic 2-year longitudinal approach. Data consist of interviews and participant observations with 35 persons (home care users and cohabitating partners) and a diary study with additional 10 care users. Inclusion criteria are people 65 years or older with home care provided by needs assessors. It is preferred that they have had home care between 6 months and 2 years in order to follow a progression in roles, identities, and strategies within home care use. Results: Between May and October 2022, 25 interviews with home care users were conducted. Data collection with follow-up interviews and observations, analysis, and reporting of findings will be completed by December 2024. Conclusions: By studying care use in the context of older people’s lives the project will add important knowledge about the strategies and adjustments older people apply to make care arrangements work. A user-oriented perspective will further the understanding of how power relations play out in home care over time in relation to the formal rights, categorical belongings, and established norm systems that place the user in superior or subordinate positions.
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- Harnett, Tove, et al.
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Konceptbaserade äldreboenden förbryllar
- 2018
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Ingår i: Äldre i centrum : tidskrift för aktuell äldreforskning. - 1653-3585. ; 32:1, s. 60-63
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- Harnett, Tove, et al.
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Makt och vanmakt på äldreboenden
- 2012
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Ordet makt ger bestämda associationer. Många tänker på våld eller politik. I denna bok om äldreboenden presenterar författarna ett annat synsätt. Makten finns också mitt i vardagen, bland blöjbyten och duschning, klädesval och läggtider. Bokens kapitel spänner över en rad teman som på flera sätt knyter an till maktutövning: inträdet till äldreboenden, rutiner, ledarskap, vårdskandaler och döden. Även mer svårupptäckta fenomen tas upp, som sociala band, andrafiering,aktivering, hemlikhet och subtila kontroverser kring de äldres identitet. Syftet är att ge läsaren en skärpt blick för hur makt och vanmakt gestaltas i välbekanta situationer i dagens äldreomsorg. Forskning visar att omsorgspersonal, boende och anhöriga dagligen involveras i maktutövning, trots att vardagen vid första anblicken inte alltid ter sig särskilt dramatisk. Boken syftar också till att underlätta diskussioner och ifrågasättanden av det som annars lätt tas för givet. Bör dagens omsorg om de äldsta medborgarna skötas på nya sätt? Kan vardagen på ett äldreboende förändras? Boken riktar sig främst till universitets- och högskolestuderande inom vård och omsorg, medicin, socialt arbete och vårdsociologi. Den är även relevant för yrkesverksamma och andra med intresse för gerontologi,sociologi, etnologi, socialantropologi, socialpsykologi och studier av välfärdsinstitutioner.
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- Harnett, Tove, et al.
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Normalisering och rättigheter
- 2016
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Ingår i: Förändringsperspektiv på äldreomsorg: Att leva som andra. - 9789140691767 ; , s. 49-60
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- Harnett, Tove, et al.
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Rethinking the concept of successful ageing : a disability studies approach
- 2021
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Ingår i: Handbook on ageing with disability. - New York : Routledge. - 9781138611498 - 9780429878381 - 9780429465352 ; , s. 14-22
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Successful ageing is one of the most influential concepts in gerontology. Characterisations of successful ageing have generally promoted the importance of individual effort and the maintenance of high physical and cognitive function. The individualising focus and normative features at the heart of the concept of successful ageing have attracted some criticism, particularly from proponents of disability studies, who have argued that the concept of ‘successful ageing’ is stigmatising and should be abandoned. However, this chapter proposes that the concept remains useful and should be reworked, rather than abandoned altogether. By expanding on the principle of Normalisation, this chapter proposes a Scandinavian Model of Successful Ageing that might be used for the measuring successful ageing. Unlike previous measures, the Scandinavian Model does not measure individual achievement, but rather redirects attention from normative to comparative standards in order to ensure the fair distribution of social rights for all people, whether they age with or into disability.
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- Harnett, Tove, et al.
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Shaping nursing home mealtimes
- 2016
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Ingår i: Ageing & Society. - 0144-686X. ; , s. 1-22
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A number of studies stress the importance of positive mealtime experiences for nursing home residents. However, the components that comprise an ideal nursing home meal remain unclear, reflecting the ambiguity of whether nursing homes should be framed as institutions, domestic settings or a type of hotel. In this study, nursing home meals were viewed as situations that the involved parties could continuously modify and ‘work on’. The aim was to analyse how the staff and residents shaped mealtimes by initiating frames and acting according to established social scripts. The study was based on semi-structured interviews with staff and residents and on ethnographic data, consisting of 100 hours of observations at two nursing home settings in Sweden. The analysis revealed how staff and residents interactively shaped meals using institutional, private or restaurant frames. There were three important findings: (a) an institutional meal frame was dominant; (b) there were substantial difficulties in introducing private frames and established private scripts for meals, since such meal versions are personal and not easy to transport into collective settings; (c) successful creation of private or home-like meal situations illustrates an often overlooked skill in care work. Making meals as ‘care-free’ as possible can be viewed as a way to operationalise the goal of providing a non-institutional environment in nursing homes.
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- Harnett, Tove, et al.
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Sill och potatis till den ena och entrecote till den andra? Individanpassning och likvärdighet på särskilda boenden för äldre.
- 2014
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Ingår i: Socialvetenskaplig tidskrift. - 1104-1420. ; 21:3-4, s. 246-265
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Enligt socialtjänstlagen ska äldreomsorgen vara individanpassad och ges utifrån den enskildes behov. Samma lag innehåller ett mål om att socialtjänsten ska främja medborgarnas jämlikhet i levnadsvillkor och kommunallagen anger att kommunen ska behandla sina invånare lika. I denna artikel problematiseras idéer om individanpassning och likvärdig behandling. Dessa olika målsättningar skapar spänningar som får en särskild karaktär på äldreboenden, där måltider och andra aktiviteter ofta genomförs tillsammans med andra och där personalens tid delas mellan de boende.
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- Harnett, Tove, et al.
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That's not my Robert! Identity maintainance and other warrants in family members' claims about mistreatment in old-age care
- 2010
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Ingår i: Ageing & Society. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. - 0144-686X .- 1469-1779. ; 30:4, s. 627-647
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study has explored how family members of care recipients define and sustain claims of mistreatment in old-age care. Twenty-one informants were recruited from an association of relatives of care recipients in Sweden. Using argumentation analysis, four warrants about mistreatment Were identified from the qualitative interview data: they referred to physical harm, psychological harm, social-care deficiencies and identity subversion. The first three categories are similar to those recognised in previous research on elder mistreatment, but the fourth, which is described in detail in the article, is less familiar: elder mistreatment as the violation of an older person's identity. The family members backed their claims about staff members' violation of a care recipient's persona or identity by using arguments that drew on their unique knowledge of the care recipient's appearance, daily routines and preferred activities. they also described their attempts to protect the dignity and identity of a care recipient, their fears of abuse, and actual cases of conflict and retribution by care staff. They consistently positioned themselves as guardians of identity through their claims of mistreatment. The study provides important knowledge about family members' moral view of elder mistreatment, which may enhance the understanding of conflicts between formal care providers and family members.
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- Harnett, Tove, et al.
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‘Wet’ eldercare facilities: three strategies on the use of alcohol and illicit substances
- 2022
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Ingår i: Nordic Social Work Research. - 2156-8588. ; 12:1, s. 1-14
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Wet eldercare facilities constitute a type of harm reduction arrangements where goals of abstinence are abandoned in favour of goals of increased wellbeing for older people with long-term substance use disorder. The fact that residents are acknowledged as being active in their substance use results in challenges; harmful activities are witnessed by the staff in a context that has actually been created by a social service agency. The aim of this article was to explore what professionals in wet eldercare facilities considered problematic in relation to residents’ consumption of alcohol and illicit substances and what strategies they used to address these ‘problems’. Particular attention was paid to approaches and strategies that addressed the challenge of being present at a facility where destructive behaviour and consumption of alcohol and illicit substances were part of everyday life. Data for the study consists of 12 interviews with managers and staff at five eldercare facilities with different sizes, organizational styles, and approaches. Qualitative content analysis was used to identify strategies that were used to handle the presence of alcohol and drugs under a ‘cap of acceptance’ deemed to be necessary for a wet eldercare facility. Three main strategies were identified and referred to as a) looking away, b) intervention and prohibition and c) intervention and distribution. In the final analysis, findings were brought into a typology for strategies, based on the two variables of acceptance and control, and the use of different strategies was critically discussed.
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- Harnett, Tove, et al.
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Är det något särskilt med äldres missbruksproblem?
- 2022
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Ingår i: Perspektiv på utsatthet och problem under åldrandet. - : Socialhögskolan, Lunds universitet. - 9789178955480 ; 3, s. 34-34
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Är det något särskilt med äldres missbruksproblem? Finns det en ålder då samhället bör ge upp ambitionen att ge behandling och i stället sträva efter att skapa ett värdigt liv? Är lågtröskelboenden där äldre får fortsätta missbruka en värdig och human lösning? Eller ett uttryck för ålderism där samhället ger upp ambitionen att förändra livet för äldre personer?
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- Helmersson, Sara, et al.
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The use of ‘empowerment’ among organisations supporting victims of domestic violence in Sweden
- 2015
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Ingår i: European Journal of Social Work. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1369-1457 .- 1468-2664. ; 18:1, s. 51-64
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this paper is to investigate the prevalence and character of ‘empowerment’ as an approach used by women’s shelters, crime victim support groups and municipal crisis centres that provide support for battered women in Sweden. The study was based on a mail survey distributed among representatives of local crime victim support groups and women’s shelters run by non-governmental organisations and the public sector (N = 207). The survey showed that empowerment was perceived as similar to the already established ‘help to self-help’ approach. Empowerment was described as a tool for individual change rather than collective action, although links to powersensitivity and social change did appear in some answers. Contrary to expectations, the use of empowerment was not accompanied by comments on problematic power relations and difficulties in merging a non-directive approach with professional responsibilities. Using neo-institutional theory, results were interpreted in relation to established work-patterns and problems that empowerment was perceived to solve.
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- Hultqvist, Sara, 1977-, et al.
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Collaboration in Grant Proposals and Assessments in Ageing Research – Justification or a Quest for a Collaborology?
- 2021
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Ingår i: Social Epistemology. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0269-1728 .- 1464-5297. ; 35:5, s. 427-440
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Orientation towards application, transdisciplinarity and social distribution are prominent ideas when policy prescribes how to conduct research on complex, real-world issues. Issues dealt with in ageing research are both epistemologically complex and politically contentious. By using the metaphor of ‘travelling ideas,' we have followed these ideas on their journey into 17 approved grant proposals on ageing and their assessments in Sweden in 2016. We considered collaboration as the modus operandi of the implementation of the three ideas. Thus, we analyzed how plans for collaboration were described in the data. The result shows that although the ideas were clearly present in the policy documents, they were almost eviscerated in the majority of proposals and assessments. Only three out of 17 proposals reflected the ideas. Thus, collaboration as an aspect of research was not codified. As long as there is no established way of describing collaboration, researchers struggle to invent their own tentative versions, that is, a collaborology.
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- Hultqvist, Sara, et al.
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“Why involve older people in research?” Revisiting Alan Walker’s earlier editorial based on recent experiences from the UserAge research programme
- 2023
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Ingår i: Research Involvement and Engagement. - : BioMed Central (BMC). - 2056-7529. ; 9:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Posed 16 years ago in a much-cited editorial by gerontologist, Alan Walker, “Why involve older people in research?” is a question that has since inspired researchers in many countries and from diverse disciplines. In Sweden, researchers and older people have been collaborating in the 6-year UserAge research programme, focusing on user involvement in research on ageing and health, UserAge aims at contributing to an in-depth understanding of the challenges and benefts of user involvement in diferent phases of the research process. Approaching programme completion, the authors take the opportunity to dwell upon current reasons for and modes of user involvement in ageing research in light of the argument originally put forward by Alan Walker back in 2007.
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- Iwarsson, Susanne, et al.
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Brukarinvolvering i forskning
- 2022
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Ingår i: Participation : När var hur - När var hur. - 9789144153155 ; , s. 127-149
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- Iwarsson, Susanne, et al.
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Understanding User Involvement in Research in Aging and Health
- 2019
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Ingår i: Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine. - : SAGE Publications. - 2333-7214. ; 5
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- User involvement in research is advocated as an avenue for efficient societal developments. In this article, we identify potentials, problems, and challenges related to research on aging and health, and identify and illustrate research priorities using an evolving research program as an example. Involving user representatives in the development phase, the UserAge program engages researchers at four universities in Sweden. The program builds upon previous and ongoing research with user involvement. The goals are to maximize the impact of user involvement, enhance the execution of high-quality research, increase the knowledge about what difference user involvement can make, and evaluate the impact of research about and with user involvement. Taken together and communicated in the international scientific community as well as in a wide range of public arenas, the empirical results, capacity-building, and modeling efforts of UserAge will have an impact not only on the present situation but also on the future.
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- Jönson, Håkan, et al.
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A new age of old age? : gerotranscendence and the re-enchantment of aging
- 2001
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Ingår i: Journal of Aging Studies. - 0890-4065. ; 15:4, s. 317-331
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Gerotranscendence theory is reviewed regarding its content, development, diffusion, impact, empirical results, and ontology. Gerotranscendence theory describes a ''natural'' alteration of consciousness in old age leading to ''wisdom'' and a qualitative break with a mid-life rational and materialist world-view. According to the theory, gerotranscendence is obstructed by a lack of alternative values and roles in old age in Western societies. Theoretically and in clinical practice, gerotranscendence theory has been linked to psychoanalysis. It is concluded that gerotranscendence theory is empirically weak, has parallels in the New Age movement as well as in romantic Orientalism, and can be understood as an attempt to re-enchant aging.
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- Jönson, Håkan, 1964-, et al.
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Ableism and Ageism
- 2019
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Ingår i: Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. - Cham : Springer. - 9783319698922 ; , s. 1-6
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Since Robert N. Butler (1969) introduced the term ageism to research, a number of attempts to define and conceptualize the phenomenon have been proposed (Iversen et al. 2009). Most have followed Butler in defining ageism as prejudice and discrimination based on age, with older people as the victimized category (See “Self reported ageism”). Some definitions describe ageism as affecting people of all ages, and in fact, investigations show that younger people are most affected by negative treatment that they ascribe to their age (Bratt et al. 2018). The definitional ambiguity has resulted in confusion on the causes of ageism; it is likely that different types of dynamics are present for persons of different ages. The present text will focus on ageism – and ableism – as a problem for older people.The concept of ageism has been used to cover a wide range of phenomena, from skewed knowledge and intolerant values to attitudes and behaviors toward older people. Ageism has been described as the “denial of basic and civil rights of elders” and has been qualified as an ideology (Estes 2011, p. 300). Commonly age discrimination has been described as the manifestation of ageist attitudes and prejudice, specified as hostile forms of discrimination (e.g., neglect or mistreatment), but also in more compassionate, subtle ways (e.g., patronizing and “elder speech”), and even positive discrimination (Cary et al. 2017; Chonody 2016; Palmore 2015). This line of thought is pursued through the use of the attitude concept that is divided into a cognitive, an affective, and a behavioral component (Iversen et al. 2009): discrimination is the behavioral manifestation of individual or societal attitudes on age. Within the constantly growing field of research on ageism (Levy and Macdonald 2016), much interest has been devoted to different arenas where ageism appears (e.g., Ayalon and Tesch-Roemer 2018) and texts and tools for discovering and combating ageism have been provided (e.g., Palmore 1990, 2015; Levy 2016).Less frequent and elaborated in gerontological literature is the concept of ableism. Ableism could be defined as the devaluation and discrimination of people based on perceived functional inability. The phenomenon has been devoted explicit interest in disability studies (e.g., Goodley 2014; Burch and Sirotkin 2018). According to Renee Butts (2017), in the Salem Press Encyclopedia, the concept was probably coined in the 1980s and refers to the discrimination of people with disabilities, conveying that they are of lesser value than the “able-bodied.” This definition is useful when identifying discrimination of persons with disabilities but as it rests on the dichotomy able-bodied – disabled – it downplays the fact that ableism has its roots in a greater societal order. Simply put, the logical counterpart to devaluation based on functional inability is the valuing of people based on ability, a principle that people in general tend to support in many situations (the system of education, the labor market, sports, and so on).
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- Jönson, Håkan, et al.
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Ableism and ageism
- 2021
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Ingår i: Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. - 9783030220099 ; , s. 1-6
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- Jönson, Håkan
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Ældre til nytte eller belastning
- 2001
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Ingår i: Gerontologi og samfund. - 0900-114X. ; 17:4, s. 76-79
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Artiklen behandler de svenske pensionistorganisationers tilbøjelighed til at beskrive de ældre som en samfundsøkono-misk »risikogruppe«. Organisationernes ældrebilleder sættes ind i en samfundsmæssig kontekst, der viser at holdnin-gerne til ældre direkte afspejler omgivelsernes. Håkan Jönson er ph.d. i socialt arbejde, socionom og forsker ved Socialhøjskolen i Lund, Sverige. Hans afhandling behandler de svenske pensionistorganisationers beskrivelse af ældre og gamle. For tiden studerer han vold, forbrydelse, overgreb og frygt som problem for ældre mennesker.
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- Jönson, Håkan, et al.
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Age-based entitlement : An ageist practice or a tool for combatting ageism?
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of Aging Studies. - : Elsevier BV. - 0890-4065. ; 64
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Researchers in gerontology have addressed the way age-based arrangements may communicate stereotypical and devaluing images of older people, thereby linking high age to frailty and dependence. The present article considers proposed reforms to the Swedish eldercare system designed to guarantee people over 85 the right to move into a nursing home regardless of their needs. The purpose of the article is to investigate older people's views on age-based entitlement in light of this proposal. What might the consequences of implementing the proposal be? Does it communicate devaluing images? Do the respondents consider it a case of ageism? The data consists of 11 peer group interviews with 34 older individuals. Bradshaw's taxonomy of needs was used to code and analyze data. Four positions on the proposed guarantee were identified: care should be arranged (1) according to needs, not age; (2) according to age as a proxy for needs; (3) according to age, as a right; and (4) according to age, to combat “fourth ageism”, meaning ageism directed towards frail older persons, i.e. persons in the fourth age. The notion that such a guarantee might constitute ageism was dismissed as irrelevant, while difficulties in getting access to care were presented as the real discrimination. It is theorized that some forms of ageism posited as theoretically relevant may not be experienced as such by older people themselves.
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- Jönson, Håkan, et al.
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Age logics in social work: The case of harm reduction for people over the age of 50 with long-term substance use problems residing in wet eldercare facilities in Sweden
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Ingår i: Qualitative Social Work. - 1473-3250.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Age is a commonly used criterion in social work, whether for entry and exit or for decisions about the appropriate measures for clients. This study introduces the concept of age logics in social work and investigates the use of age in ‘wet’ eldercare facilities. Wet eldercare facilities are harm reduction arrangements open to people over the age of 50 with long-term substance misuse. No treatment is provided, and residents can continue to consume alcohol and other substances for the rest of their lives. At wet eldercare facilities, age is used to mark a shift in ambition: earlier efforts to treat are replaced by attempts to provide care and dignity. The article uses wet eldercare facilities as the example with which to (i) introduce age logics as an analytical tool for critical studies of age in social work; (ii) understand how age logics are used in harm reduction arrangements for older people; and (iii) propose a method to increase age awareness and identify and challenge problematic uses of age in social work. The empirical data consists of interviews with 31 residents, 11 caseworkers and 12 staff members at two Swedish wet eldercare facilities. The analysis identifies four types of age logics linking chronological age with its meanings: (a) the logic of changeability; (b) the logic of lifestyle; (c) the logic of function; and (d) the logic of administrative fit. Together they construct an ideal type of the ‘older addict’, which justified existing arrangements.
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