Forgotten resources of older home care clients: Focus group study in <scp>F</scp>inland

MSc, RN Riitta Turjamaa; Hartikainen, Sirpa; Pietilä, Anna‐Maija

doi:10.1111/nhs.12037

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“…Caring and all services have to support elderly's own performance and individual resources [13]. Unfortunately home care of older people is based on an illness-centered approach that focuses only on their physical resources, and development of home care services is urgent [14]. Digital services and applications can help us to develop elderly care for better direction.…”

Section: Ethical Values and Digitalizationmentioning

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Semantic Infrastructure for Service Environment Supporting Successful Aging

Salminen¹,

Sanerma²,

Niittymäki³

et al. 2018

Data Mining

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Demographic changes and the rapid increase of aging people are occurring throughout the world. There is a need for step-by-step developing service environment to support elderly living as old as possible at home. Digital equipment and technology solutions installed at home produce real-time data which can be used for predictive and optimized service creation. New technology solutions have to be tested at home environments to get certainty of usability, flexibility, and accessibility. The implementation of new digitalization has to happen according to ethical rules taking into account the values of elderly people. The data gathered through digital equipment is used in optimizing service processes. However, service process misses common ontology and semantic infrastructure to use the gathered data for service optimization. The service environment and semantic infrastructure, which could be used in social and health care, are introduced in this article.

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Section: Ethical Values and Digitalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Semantic Infrastructure for Service Environment Supporting Successful Aging

Salminen¹,

Sanerma²,

Niittymäki³

et al. 2018

Data Mining

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“…Unmet psychosocial care needs for older people are reported even in aged care settings that are culturally congruent (Ryvicker, 2011;Turjamaa et al, 2013;Ryan & McKenna, 2015). The cultural diversity of residents increases the complexity, making it more difficult for staff to meet individualized psychosocial care needs (Runci et al, 2012;Kim et al, 2014;Small et al, 2015).…”

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Resident and family member perceptions of cultural diversity in aged care homes

Xiao

Willis

Harrington

et al. 2016

Nursing & Health Sciences

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Similar to many developed nations, older people living in residential aged care homes in Australia and the staff who care for them have become increasingly multicultural. This cultural diversity adds challenges for residents in adapting to the care home. This study explores: (i) residents' and family members' perceptions about staff and cultural diversity, and (ii) culturally and linguistically diverse residents' and family members' experiences. An interpretive study design employing a thematic analysis was applied. Twenty-three residents and seven family members participated in interviews. Four themes were identified from interpreting residents and family members' perceptions of the impact of cultural diversity on their adaptation to aged care homes: (i) perceiving diversity as an attraction; (ii) adapting to cross-cultural communication; (iii) adjusting to diet in the residential care home; and (iv) anticipating individualized psychosocial interactions. The findings have implications for identifying strategies to support staff from all cultural backgrounds in order to create a caring environment that facilitates positive relationships with residents and supports residents to adjust to the care home.

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“…With increasing age, both physical and cognitive limitations occur and have an impact on older people's needs and health experiences. Home care tends to focus on physical abilities and basic needs (Turjamaa, Hartikainen, & Pietilä, ) with tasks to be performed (Sundler et al, ), whereas older people's social and psychological needs are at risk of being overlooked. Therefore, older people sometimes note feeling ignored or not listened to (Lagacé, Tanguay, Lavallée, Laplante, & Robichaud, ), underscoring the importance of one being acknowledged as a person (Woolhead et al, ).…”

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Emotional communication with older people: A cross‐sectional study of home care

Höglander

Sundler

Spreeuwenberg

et al. 2019

Nursing & Health Sciences

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The aim of this study was to explore the influence of characteristics of nurses and older people on emotional communication in home care settings. A generalized, linear, mixed model was used to analyze 188 audio‐recorded home care visits coded with Verona Coding Definitions of Emotional Sequences. The results showed that most emotional distress was expressed by older females or with female nurses. The elicitation of an expression of emotional distress was influenced by the nurses' native language and profession. Older women aged 65–84 years were given the most space for emotional expression. We found that emotional communication was primarily influenced by sex for nurses and older people, with an impact on the frequency of expressions of and responses to emotional distress. Expressions of emotional distress by older males were less common and could risk being missed in communication. The results have implications for students' and health professionals' education in increasing their knowledge of and attentiveness to the impacts of their and others' characteristics and stereotypes on emotional communication with older people.

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Forgotten resources of older home care clients: Focus group study in Finland

Cited by 20 publications

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Semantic Infrastructure for Service Environment Supporting Successful Aging

Semantic Infrastructure for Service Environment Supporting Successful Aging

Resident and family member perceptions of cultural diversity in aged care homes

Emotional communication with older people: A cross‐sectional study of home care

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