Old people receiving municipal care, their experiences of what constitutes a good life in the last phase of life: A qualitative study
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...NR Three themes emerged as important for life satisfaction: activity, independence and adaptation Andersson 2008 [33] (Sweden) 17 older adults (75+) receiving municipal help and care and having a lifethreatening disease or receiving palliative care, purposefully selected by nurses working in…...
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...Furthermore, patients described that life history and memories could still bring values to the person’s life (Andersson et al., 2008)....
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...Being at home was expressed by elderly care-receivers to be a way to ensure that daily routines (Andersson et al., 2008) and independence could be maintained, this was supported by family members and health professionals (Chan and Pang, 2007)....
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...The usefulness of these religious practices was supported by expressions from patients (Andersson et al., 2008; Buxton, 2007; Chio et al., 2008; Grant et al., 2004)....
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...Faith in, for example God, was shown to have a positive influence on their life situation and conveyed a feeling of being calm, safe and secured in the situation (Andersson et al., 2008; Chio et al., 2008)....
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...Patients receiving community care expressed how they kept up the façade of normality by trying to conceal from others how health complaints affected their lives and the severity of the illness, by not complaining to their children and avoiding seeing other people (Andersson et al., 2008)....
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...This was especially acute in an institution as their physical limitations denied them the freedom to ‘walk out’ and relates to affronts to dignity at feeling in the control of other people [34, 35]....
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...Another aspect of credibility concerns the sufficiency of data to answer the research question (Graneheim and Lundman, 2004)....
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...Hellstrom et al. (2004a) found that decreased functional ability in terms of high amount of help in personal activities in daily living (PADL) was related to low QoL among older people (75+ years) receiving help with activities of daily living....
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...Credibility also concerns the question of judging similarities within and differences between categories (Graneheim and Lundman, 2004), which in this study was increased as three researchers were involved in the analysis....
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...confidence in the truth of the data, participants of various sex, age, living conditions were selected to increase the possibility to shed light on meanings of the experience (Graneheim and Lundman, 2004)....
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