dc.contributor.author | Voie, Kristin Synnøve | |
dc.contributor.author | Blix, Bodil Hansen | |
dc.contributor.author | Helgesen, Ann Karin | |
dc.contributor.author | Larsen, Toril Agnete | |
dc.contributor.author | Mæhre, Kjersti Sunde | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-21T10:34:48Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-11-21T10:34:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-11-10 | |
dc.description.abstract | Background: In Norway, as in many other countries, more people receive health and
care services in their homes than before. Home care professionals provide care and
support to people with a range of health and care needs. Older home care service
users are sometimes referred to as ‘frail’, but the terms ‘frail’ and ‘frailty’ have different meanings in different contexts, and little is known about the meaning ascribed
to the terms in the context of home care services. Home care services are crucial for
many older persons who have health challenges, and how home care professionals
conceptualise frailty might shape clinical encounters.<p>
<p>Objectives: The purpose of this study is to explore how home care professionals conceptualised frailty in the context of home care.
<p>Methods: We conducted four focus group discussions with 14 home care professionals who worked in municipal home care in northern Norway and analysed the data
using thematic analysis.
<p>Results: Our analysis resulted in five themes: ‘“Frail” – a term which is too imprecise
to be useful’, ‘Frailty as a consequence of ageing’, ‘Frailty as lack of engagement and
possibilities for engagement’, ‘Frailty as a contextual phenomenon’ and ‘Frailty as potentially affected by care’. The home care professionals conceptualised frailty as an
individual trait but also as resulting from the interplay between individual and environmental factors. Moreover, their conceptualisations of frailty represented a continuum between frailty as related to prevention and management (‘cure’) and frailty as
related to ageing as natural decline (‘care’).
<p>Conclusion: The home care professionals conceptualised frailty diversely, as moving
along a continuum between cure and care. Diverse conceptualisations of frailty might
be necessary if nurses are to meet the changing and varying care needs of older persons who live in their own homes and need health and care services. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Voie KS, Blix BH, Helgesen AK, Larsen TA, Mæhre KS. Professional home care providers' conceptualisations of frailty
in the context of home care: A focus group study. International Journal of Older People Nursing. 2022 | en_US |
dc.identifier.cristinID | FRIDAID 2069632 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/opn.12511 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1748-3735 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1748-3743 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10037/27434 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Wiley | en_US |
dc.relation.journal | International Journal of Older People Nursing | |
dc.rights.accessRights | openAccess | en_US |
dc.rights.holder | Copyright 2022 The Author(s) | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 | en_US |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) | en_US |
dc.title | Professional home care providers' conceptualisations of frailty
in the context of home care: A focus group study | en_US |
dc.type.version | publishedVersion | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.type | Tidsskriftartikkel | en_US |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en_US |