• Armoda er ikkje sjølvforskyldt 

      Elstad, Ingunn (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2007)
    • Det utrygge finanssjukehuset 

      Elstad, Ingunn (Chronicle; Kronikk, 2009-03-03)
    • District nursing between the local and the international. Northern Norway 1890-1940. 

      Elstad, Ingunn (Working paper; Arbeidsnotat, 2006)
      The article explores the history of voluntary district nursing in Northern Norway 1880- 1940. A popular movement of women’s associations met the tuberculosis epidemic, which peaked late in the North. District nursing was developed partly from the European movement of Christian relief and sick care, partly from local traditions of neighbourly assistance. Local girls were trained and employed by local ...
    • Familie og kontinuitet : pårørende forteller om livsløpet til personer med demenssykdom 

      Drageset, Ingrid Marie Saga; Normann, Hans Ketil; Elstad, Ingunn (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      Artikkelen bygger på intervju av nære pårørende om livsløpet til pasienter med demenssykdom som bor i sykehjem i Nord-Norge. De pårørende ble spesielt spurt om pasientenes vaner, interesser og aktiviteter gjennom livsløpet. Det ble utført narrativ analyse av intervjuene med vekt på fortolkning av livsløp og livshendelser hos pasientene. Artikkelen viser hvordan pårørende konkret bidrar til å videreføre ...
    • Identity-supportive nursing of patients with dementia in nursing homes 

      Drageset, Ingrid Marie Saga; Normann, Hans Ketil; Elstad, Ingunn (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-03)
      This article aims to explore how nursing can support a sense of continuity and identity in patients with advanced dementia disease, living in nursing homes. Fourteen carers and managers in two nursing homes in northern Norway were interviewed. The analysis and discussion are based on the theoretical concepts of identity, continuity and person-centred nursing. This study concludes that an awareness ...
    • Infant mortality and epidemic diseases. Wartime Finnmark in a comparative perspective 

      Mølmann, Nina Planting; Jacobsen, Bjarne K.; Elstad, Ingunn (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-12-15)
      The effects of war on the health of the population have never been systematically studied. The article explores the impact of war on the general health condition of Finnmark’s population during the war years. The indicators chosen are infant mortality and the epidemic diseases diphtheria, scabies and acute gastroenteritis. The development of the indicators in Finnmark is compared with the averages ...
    • Life Support in High Age: Northern Norway 1865-1900 

      Elstad, Ingunn (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      This article explores how very old people in Northern Norway supported life before economic modernization, from nineteenth-century census registrations and ethnographic sources. Very few lived alone. About 80 percent were primarily supported by living with relations—family, kin, or nonkin, participating with work and experience, the majority through a retirement agreement. In the northernmost parts, ...
    • Living the War in the Barents Region 1939–1945: Living conditions, childhood, sickness, and nursing 

      Elstad, Ingunn; Fause, Åshild (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2015-12-15)
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    • Personer med demenssykdom i sykehjem : refleksjon over livet 

      Drageset, Ingrid Marie Saga; Normann, Hans Ketil; Elstad, Ingunn (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      The article is based on interviews with eight individuals with dementia disease living in nursing homes in Northern Norway. They were asked to tell about their lives, especially habits, interests and activities through the lifespan. Narrative analysis was conducted, phases and happenings through the lifespan were especially important for the interpretation. The persons reflected about their lives, ...
    • Samefolket i tvangsevakueringa 

      Elstad, Ingunn (Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2016-03-18)
    • Sjukehusa i Nord-Norge 

      Elstad, Ingunn (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2011)
    • "Sometimes i walk and walk, hoping to get some peace." Dealing with hearing voices and sounds nobody else hears 

      Kalhovde, Anne Martha; Elstad, Ingunn; Talseth, Anne-Grethe (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014)
    • Understanding the Experiences of Hearing Voices and Sounds Others Do Not Hear 

      Kalhovde, Anne Martha; Elstad, Ingunn; Talseth, Anne-Grethe (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013-10-11)
      In this article, we aim to contribute to the understanding of how people with mental illness experience hearing voices and sounds that others do not hear in daily life. We conducted in-depth interviews with 14 people and analyzed the interviews using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach. The themes we arrived at included the following: hearing someone else or myself, am I losing my mind?, and ...