In search for the “humane” : staffs’ perspectives on everyday activities in a nursing home

• Objectives: To better understand how a dialogue about the influence of nursing home residents on their everyday activities evolve among diverse practitioners and to identify the consequences of such an understanding in practice.Methods: Inspired by a collaborative approach, five workshops, one focus group and follow up interviews were conducted. The participants were 19 diverse practitioners. Analysis followed a dialogical approach.Findings: Tensions, opportunities and challenges were articulated and discussed during the workshops and are developed in: a) Bypassing the “humane”? The dilemma between using shields preventing engagement or acting in a clandestine manner b)“What is our stance?” Seeking common ground on which to stand regarding everyday activities and c) Recognising expertise and seeking connections.Discussion: For the staff, acting in a clandestine manner seems to create ways of enabling “humane” practices towards nursing home residents. The “clandestine manners” seem to be grounded in an effort on the part of the staff to make sense of the everyday activities for the nursing home residents. These “clandestine manners” could be seen as responses to institutional routines and a lack of common ground on the understanding of everyday activities in the context of nursing homes.

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MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Hälsovetenskap -- Arbetsterapi (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Health Sciences -- Occupational Therapy (hsv//eng)

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identity

long-term care

Occupation

participatory

well-being

adult

article

daily life activity

follow up

human

interview

nursing home patient

physician

staff

standing

tension

wellbeing

health care delivery

health care personnel

nursing home

quality of life

questionnaire

Delivery of Health Care

Health Personnel

Humans

Nursing Homes

Skilled Nursing Facilities

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