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dc.contributor.advisorMæhre, Kjersti sunde
dc.contributor.authorVoie, Kristin Synnøve
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-26T13:53:54Z
dc.date.available2025-05-26T13:53:54Z
dc.date.issued2025-06-06
dc.description.abstractBåde i Norge og i andre land mottar stadig flere mennesker helsetjenester i sine egne hjem. Mange eldre voksne bor også hjemme så lenge som mulig, selv når de bor alene med skrøpelighet og helseutfordringer. Tidligere forskning viser at eldre voksnes erfaringer av skrøpelighet er dynamiske og nyanserte. Samtidig viser forskning også at dominerende masternarrativ om aldring og alderdom har en tendens til å fremstille aldring enten som ‘svekkelse’ eller som ‘suksess’. I denne avhandlingen forstås skrøpelighet som en subjektiv, relasjonell og dynamisk erfaring. Gjennom å utforske kontinuitet og endring i hverdagslivet til eldre voksne som lever med skrøpelighet, samt hvordan eldre voksne og hjemmetjenesteutøvere navigerer skrøpelighet, er avhandlingens overordnede mål å skape rom for bredere og mer inkluderende masternarrativ om aldring og skrøpelighet. Avhandlingen er basert på fokusgruppediskusjoner med ansatte i hjemmetjenesten og individuelle intervjuer med eldre voksne som kan ha erfaringer av skrøpelighet. Hver av de ni eldre voksne ble intervjuet tre ganger med fire måneders mellomrom. Ved hjelp av tematisk analyse viser studien hvordan ansatte i hjemmetjenesten konseptualiserer skrøpelighet på ulike, og til tider motstridende måter. Gjennom tematisk analyse, kombinert med narrativ posisjoneringsanalyse fremhever studien videre hvordan eldre voksne balanserer sine styrker og sårbarheter. Høy alder, det å bo alene og det å motta hjemmetjenester påvirker eldre voksnes bruk av tid, samtidig som ulike erfaringer av tid også påvirker hverdagslivet. Ved å ta i bruk et livsløpsperspektiv utfordrer avhandlingen forestillingene om at skrøpelighet ikke også kan innebære styrke, at eldre voksnes historier hovedsakelig handler om fortiden, og at aldring enten handler om suksess eller svekkelse. Å skape rom for fortellinger i hjemmetjenestepraksis kan gi innsikt i eldre voksnes mangfoldige erfaringer med skrøpelighet.en_US
dc.description.abstractIn Norway and other countries, more people than before are receiving health care services in their homes. Many older adults also continue to live at home for as long as possible, even when they live alone with frailty and health challenges. Previous research demonstrates that older adults’ experiences of frailty are dynamic and nuanced. At the same time, research also indicates that dominant master narratives about ageing and old age tend to portray ageing as either ‘decline’ or ‘success’. In this thesis, frailty is considered to be a subjective, relational and dynamic experience. Through exploring continuity and change in the everyday lives of older adults living with frailty, as well as how older adults and home care professionals navigate frailty, the overarching aim of this thesis is to create spaces for broader and more inclusive cultural narratives of ageing and frailty. The thesis is based on focus group discussions with home care professionals and individual interviews with older adults living with frailty. Each of the nine older adults was interviewed three times at four-month intervals. Using thematic analysis, the study shows how home care professionals conceptualise frailty in various, but sometimes contradictory, ways. Through thematic analysis combined with narrative positioning analysis, the study further highlights how older adults balance their strengths and vulnerabilities. Being of advanced age, living alone and using home care influence older adults’ use of time, while various temporal experiences also shape their experiences of everyday life. By adopting a life course perspective, the thesis challenges the notions that frailty cannot also involve strength, that older adults’ stories mainly concern the past, and that ageing is either about success or decline. Creating space for storytelling in home care practice can provide insight into older adults’ diverse experiences of frailty.en_US
dc.description.doctoraltypeph.d.en_US
dc.description.popularabstractMany older adults live alone, receive home care and experience frailty, which in this thesis considered as a subjective, relational and dynamic experience. Through exploring continuity and change in the everyday lives of older adults living with frailty, as well as how older adults and home care professionals navigate frailty, the overarching aim of this thesis is to create spaces for broader and more inclusive master narratives about ageing and frailty. Empirical data generated through focus group discussions with home care professionals, and individual interviews with older adults, each of whom was interviewed three times at four-month intervals, were analysed using thematic analysis, combined with narrative positioning analysis. Through the lens of a life course perspective, the results of this thesis challenge the ideas that frailty cannot also involve strength, that older adults’ stories are mainly about the past, and that ageing is either about success or decline. In home care, storytelling can provide insight into older adults’ various experiences of frailty, strengths and vulnerabilities.en_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-82-350-0028-6
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/37132
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universiteten_US
dc.relation.haspart<p>Paper 1: Voie, K.S., Blix, B H., Helgesen, A.K., Larsen, T.A. & Mæhre, K.S. (2023). Professional home care providers' conceptualisations of frailty in the context of home care: A focus group study. <i>International Journal of Older People Nursing, 18</i>, e12511. Also available in Munin at <a href=https://hdl.handle.net/10037/27434>https://hdl.handle.net/10037/27434</a>. <p>Paper 2: Voie, K.S., Wiles, J., Blix, B.H., Kristiansen, M., Helgesen A.K. & Mæhre, K.S. (2025). Older people enacting resilience in stories about living alone and receiving home care. <i>Ageing & Society, 45</i>(4), 776-795. Also available in Munin at <a href=https://hdl.handle.net/10037/33365>https://hdl.handle.net/10037/33365</a>. <p>Paper 3: Voie, K.S., Wiles, J., Mæhre, K.S., Kristiansen, M., Helgesen, A.K. & Blix, B.H. (2024). The timescapes of older adults living alone and receiving home care: An interview study. <i>Journal of Aging Studies, 68</i>, 101212. Also available in Munin at <a href=https://hdl.handle.net/10037/33364>https://hdl.handle.net/10037/33364</a>.en_US
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dc.rights.holderCopyright 2025 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)en_US
dc.subjectfrailtyen_US
dc.subjectolder adultsen_US
dc.subjecthome careen_US
dc.subjectlife course perspectiveen_US
dc.subjecteveryday lifeen_US
dc.subjectageingen_US
dc.titleNavigating Frailty: Older Adults’ Everyday Lives and Home Care Professionals’ Conceptualisations of Frailty – A Life Course Perspectiveen_US
dc.typeDoctoral thesisen_US
dc.typeDoktorgradsavhandlingen_US


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