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dc.contributor.authorVoie, Kristin Synnøve
dc.contributor.authorBlix, Bodil Hansen
dc.contributor.authorHelgesen, Ann Karin
dc.contributor.authorLarsen, Toril Agnete
dc.contributor.authorMæhre, Kjersti Sunde
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-21T10:34:48Z
dc.date.available2022-11-21T10:34:48Z
dc.date.issued2022-11-10
dc.description.abstractBackground: 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.citationVoie 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. 2022en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2069632
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/opn.12511
dc.identifier.issn1748-3735
dc.identifier.issn1748-3743
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/27434
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherWileyen_US
dc.relation.journalInternational Journal of Older People Nursing
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2022 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)en_US
dc.titleProfessional home care providers' conceptualisations of frailty in the context of home care: A focus group studyen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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