Scandinavian welfare research has paid more and more attention to the role played by women in building institutions for children, the sick and the elderly. The new institutions were generally called ”homes” and it was precisely this linkage between women and homes that may have led to clear perceptions of what the new ”homes” were like. Concepts like motherliness, homeliness and intimacy are ...

Bakgrunn: Brukermedvirkning er et krav i helse- og omsorgsforskning og antas å bidra til at forskningen er relevant for dem den gjelder, og at kunnskapen blir tatt i bruk. I artikkelen diskuterer vi brukermedvirkning i forskning med utgangspunkt i kravet om kollektiv representasjon (at man representerer en gruppe og ikke kun seg selv). <br>Metode: Artikkelen er en casestudie basert på en ...

Western health care policy emphasizes continuity of care for people with dementia. This paper presents formal and family caregivers’ descriptions of collaboration in home-based dementia care and explores whether this collaboration inhibits or enables continuity of care and the use of the statutory individual plan. Empirical data were derived from 18 in-depth interviews with formal and family caregivers ...

<p><i>Bakgrunn:</i> Det er sterke helsepolitiske føringer for at personer med demens skal bo hjemme så lenge som mulig, og det forventes at pårørende skal bidra i omsorgsarbeidet. Pårørendeskolen skal bidra til læring og mestring hos pårørende. <p><i>Metode:</i> Studien er basert på kvalitative intervju med 16 pårørende som hadde deltatt på pårørendeskoler i nordnorske kommuner i perioden 2010–2017. ...

The current Western health policy of ageing in place relies on a triad collaboration among patients, healthcare service providers and family caregivers. Such collaborations presuppose involvement in a vague juridical landscape. This article explores family caregivers’ experiences with involvement in and influence on nursing home decision-making processes for persons with dementia. The data consist ...

The Sami people have historically been exposed to severe assimilation processes. The objective of this study was to explore elderly Samis' experiences of health. A total of 19 elderly Sami individuals in Norway were interviewed. This article is a dialogical narrative analysis of the life stories of 3 Sami women. The life stories are perceived as narratives of health and resistance. Postcolonial ...

I 1902 ble byen Narvik en realitet, og som så mange andre byer var veksten stor på den tiden. Byene i Norge økte ikke bare i areal og folketall, men også i sine velferdsproblemer. Hvordan Narvik fikk løst noen av oppgavene knyttet til helse og sykdom og hvem som gjorde hva innenfor kommunens grenser, er tema her.

This study examined four policy documents published by the Norwegian government from 1995 to 2009 describing issues regarding the provision of public services to elderly Sami in Norway. Adopting a Foucauldian discourse analytic approach, we explored how the statements regarding elderly Sami and care services in these documents are situated within contemporary ethno-political and healthcare discourses. ...

Scandinavian health policy supports prolonged home-based care for people with dementia. User participation is expected to reduce family burden. The aim of this study was to explore how formal and family caregivers experience collaboration while providing home-based dementia care, with a focus on user participation. Seventeen qualitative in-depth interviews were conducted among formal and family ...

The Sami are an indigenous people living in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. Historically, national states have made strong efforts to assimilate the Sami people into the majority populations, and the Sami have experienced stigmatization and discrimination. However, after World War II, there has been a revitalization process among the Sami that was pioneered by the Sami Movement and gradually ...