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Older people's expe...
Older people's experience of utilisation and administration of medicines in a health- and social care context
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- Craftman, Åsa (author)
- Sophiahemmet Högskola,Stockholms universitet,Centrum för forskning om äldre och åldrande (ARC), (tills m KI),Sophiahemmet University, Sweden,Sophiahemmet University and Aging Research Center (ARC), Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University,Sophiahemmet Univ, Sweden
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- Westerbotn, Margareta (author)
- Karolinska Institutet,Sophiahemmet Högskola,Sophiahemmet University and Division of Nursing, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society (NVS), Karolinska Institutet,Sophiahemmet Univ, Sweden
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- von Strauss, Eva (author)
- Karolinska Institutet,Röda Korsets Högskola,Stockholms universitet,Centrum för forskning om äldre och åldrande (ARC), (tills m KI),The Swedish Red Cross University College, Sweden,Avdelningen Medicin och Folkhälsa,Aging Research Center (ARC), Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University,Stockholm Univ, Sweden
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- Hillerås, Pernilla (author)
- Sophiahemmet Högskola,Sophiahemmet University and Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet,Sophiahemmet Univ, Sweden
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- Marmstal Hammar, Lena (author)
- Mälardalens högskola,Hälsa och välfärd
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- 2015-02-04
- 2015
- English.
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In: Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences. - : Wiley. - 0283-9318 .- 1471-6712. ; 29:4, s. 760-768
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- Background: People living at home who lack ability to manage their medicine are entitled to assistance to improve adherence provided by a home care assistant employed by social care.Aim: The aim was to describe how older people with chronic diseases, living at home, experience the use and assistance of administration of medicines in the context of social care.Design: A qualitative descriptive study.Methods: Ten participants (age 65+) living at home were interviewed in the participants' own homes. Latent content analysis was used.Findings: The assistance eases daily life with regard to practical matters and increases adherence to a medicine regimen. There were mixed feelings about being dependent on assistance; it interferes with self-sufficiency at a time of health transition. Participants were balancing empowerment and a dubious perception of the home care assistants' knowledge of medicine and safety. Physicians' and district nurses' professional knowledge was a safety guarantee for the medicine process.Conclusions: Assistance eases daily life and medicine regimen adherence. Dependence on assistance may affect self-sufficiency. Perceived safety varied relating to home care assistants' knowledge of medicine.Relevance to Clinical Practice: A well-functioning medicine assistance is crucial to enable older people to remain at home. A person-centred approach to health-and social care delivery is efficient and improve outcome for the recipient of care.
Subject headings
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Omvårdnad (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Nursing (hsv//eng)
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- older people
- assistance
- medicine use
- social care
- medicine administration at home
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