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dc.contributor.authorBjerkmo, Lena Yvonne
dc.contributor.authorHelgesen, Ann Karin
dc.contributor.authorBlix, Bodil Hansen
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-11T11:50:48Z
dc.date.available2022-07-11T11:50:48Z
dc.date.issued2022-07-01
dc.description.abstract<p><b>Purpose:</b> Our aim in this study was to explore how significant others experience being “significant” to older adults living alone with frailty in rural Arctic areas in northern Norway. The proportion of older adults in the population is larger and growing faster in rural- than in urban areas. Due to out-migration of the younger generations, many significant others live far from the older adults. <p><b>Methods:</b> Our results are based on a thematic analysis of semistructured interviews with ten persons identified as significant others by older adults in rural Arctic Norway. <p><b>Results:</b> The analysis resulted in two main themes and five subthemes: 1. Restoring and maintaining balance in the older adult’s life with the following three subthemes: 1.1. balancing between the older adult’s capacity and the physical environment; 1.2. emotional support; and 1.3. balancing between the older adult’s need for help and the services offered; and 2. Maintaining balance in one’s own life with the following two subthemes: 2.1. family and working life; and 2.2. tensions between family members. The rural Arctic context in which the older adult lived was relevant to varying degrees in all themes. <p><b>Conclusion:</b> Our results showed that experiences of being the significant other involve a continuous balancing act affected by the older adult’s life situation, the significant other’s own life and the rural Arctic context in which the older adult lives. Our study adds to previous conceptualizations of frailty as both a bodily and a relational phenomenon framed by materialities, the understanding of frailty as also a situated phenomenon.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBjerkmo, Helgesen, Blix. Experiences of Being Significant Others to Older Adults with Frailty Living Alone in Rural Arctic Norway: A Qualitative Study. Risk Mangement and Healthcare Policy. 2022en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2036424
dc.identifier.doi10.2147/RMHP.S367079
dc.identifier.issn1179-1594
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/25787
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherDove Pressen_US
dc.relation.journalRisk Mangement and Healthcare Policy
dc.relation.urihttps://www.dovepress.com/articles.php?article_id=76282
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2022 The Author(s)en_US
dc.titleExperiences of Being Significant Others to Older Adults with Frailty Living Alone in Rural Arctic Norway: A Qualitative Studyen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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