The purpose of this thesis is to examine the relationship between the elderly at a retirement home and their professional caretakers with focus on the perspective of the elderly. Chosen method, a qualitative interview analysis has been conducted to describe how the relationship affects the elderly in their everyday lives. The total amount of interviews were four. The relationship between the elderly and their professional caretakers has rarely been examined in previous research from an elder?s perspective.The results indicate that the elderly often are satisfied with the way the professional caretakers treat them.

The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to examine the views of the elderly and the caregivers that appear in brochures for the elderly and the discourses that can be found within. The data that the study is based on was collected and analysed using content analysis and Faircloughs (1992) critical discourse analysis. The theoretical frameworks that have been used are social constructionism, critical discourse analysis, assortment and protest, and New Public Management. The results showed two images of older people (I) the elderly as active and autonomous and (II) the elderly as passive and in need of help. The results also showed two pictures of the caregiver (III) the caregiver and NPM, and (IV), the non-profit care provider as a complement.

A?ldres delaktighet och inflytande i a?ldreomsorgen beskriver Socialdepartementet sombristfa?llig. Fo?r att o?ka a?ldres delaktighet tillsattes ett verktyg, genomfo?randeplaner. I den ha?r uppsatsen sta?ller vi oss fra?gorna: Hur upplever personal a?ldres delaktighet pa? a?ldreboenden samt vad fyller genomfo?randeplaner fo?r funktion fo?r a?ldres delaktighet? Utifra?n sex intervjuer med personal pa? a?ldreboenden visar resultatet att personalen upplever a?ldres delaktighet som frama?tskridande och betydelsefull inom a?ldreomsorgen.

The aim of this thesis was to study elderly people?s experiences of and approach to their usage of home care services with tax deduction. The aim was also to describe how elderly people reason about their underlying motives of using home care service with tax deduction. The study is based on six qualitative interviews with people between the ages of 65 and 80, living in Nacka, Sweden. This thesis is a collaboration with Stiftelsen Stockholms la?ns A?ldrecentrum/ Stockholm Gerontology Center and part of their follow up study concerning simplified administration for elderly people applying for home care services in Nacka.

Elderly patients experiences of palliative care ? a rewireThe purpose of this paper was to study elderly patient?s experience of palliative care with present knowledge as starting point. The questions were; what criteria do the elderly, dying person think is most important to fulfill in palliative care? and how satisfied is the elderly, dying person with the palliative care that are giving to him/her? The information were collected by a data based search trough science magazines and technical literature. Four relevant studies were found; Costello (2001), Heyland (2005), Wilson (1999) and Formiga (2004).

Elderly patients experiences of palliative care ? a rewireThe purpose of this paper was to study elderly patient?s experience of palliative care with present knowledge as starting point. The questions were; what criteria do the elderly, dying person think is most important to fulfill in palliative care? and how satisfied is the elderly, dying person with the palliative care that are giving to him/her? The information were collected by a data based search trough science magazines and technical literature. Four relevant studies were found; Costello (2001), Heyland (2005), Wilson (1999) and Formiga (2004).

This study is qualitative and aims to describe and analyze how senior citizens with alcohol- related problems are recognized by social workers within local care for the elderly. The empirical material consists of eleven semi-structured interviews which was completed with the help of social workers within local elderly care. The findings of the study shows that the processing of the senior citizens alcohol related problem can be explained as an identified ?awareness process.? Further, the findings of the study shows that awareness is often made by others than the social workers themselves. The study has also showed that known versus unknown information about present alcohol-related problems, tends to be crucial for when and how awareness is made in the ?awareness process?. .

Bakgrund: Ma?ltiden a?r central fo?r en ma?nniskas fysiska och psykiska va?lma?ende. Malnutrition a?rett vanligt problem i den a?ldre populationen.Syfte: Att underso?ka hur personer boende pa? tva? va?rd- och omsorgsboenden fo?r a?ldre i Uppsala la?n upplever sin ma?ltidsmiljo? samt hur det egna behovet av egenva?rdssto?d och inflytande mo?ts under ma?ltiden utifra?n faktorerna fysisk och social ma?ltidsmiljo?, hja?lpmedel, egenva?rd och sja?lvbesta?mmande.Metod: Studien har en kvalitativ ansats. A?tta informanter pa? va?rd- och omsorgsboenden fo?r a?ldre i Uppsala la?n intervjuades, informanterna valdes genom ett strategiskt urval.

Bakgrund: Personer ?ver 65 ?r utg?r 17 procent av befolkningen, men de svarar f?r 25 procent av all suicid, vilket g?r gruppen ?verrepresenterad. Suicid f?rekommer i alla samh?llsklasser och ?r ett folkh?lsoproblem. P? varje fullbordat suicid genomf?rs cirka 30?40 suicidf?rs?k hos den yngre befolkningen.

Den demografiska och ekonomiska utvecklingen i G?teborg ser ut att skapa stora utmaningar kommande ?r f?r hela staden. I denna fallstudie unders?ks Serviceresor G?teborgs verksamhet d?r vi ser att de ?ldre resen?rernas m?jligheter att f?rflytta sig riskerar att f?rs?mras p? grund av konsekvenserna av denna utveckling. Syftet med denna studie ?r d?rf?r att unders?ka hur Serviceresor G?teborg kan hantera effekterna av den demografiska utvecklingen utan att p?verka resen?rernas mobilitet negativt.

The purpose of this thesis is to examine how the elderly people experience the food on a sheltered accommodation. We will examine nutrition in the food and if the elderly people have an influence on food they gets everyday. The aim of this study was to examine older persons? everyday experiences of food within the context of homes for the elderly. More specifically, nutrition and the personal experiences of influence concerning choice of food were examined.

Guaranteed cohabitation of elderly couples is a new law that gives elderly couples the right to live together in special housing. Even if only one of the spouses has an administrator?s decision to live in special housing. The aim of this study is to describe and understand how three municipalities materialize the social rights guaranteed for the elderly couples? cohabitation.

Syftet med uppsatsen a?r att ta reda pa? bista?ndshandla?ggares syn pa? a?ldre med missbruksproblematik, samt deras syn pa? samarbetet med andra enheter ga?llande denna grupp. Underso?kningen a?r baserad pa? kvalitativa intervjuer med fyra bista?ndshandla?ggare fra?n tva? olika stadsdelar. Empirin a?r uppdelad i tre olika teman och dessa a?r o?verla?mning och samarbete mellan enheter, riktlinjer fo?r bemo?tande samt fo?rha?llningssa?tt och bista?ndshandla?ggares uppfattning kring arbetet med missbrukare.

AbstractThe intention of our study was to examine the meaning of home of elderly women and men and how they experience their getting older. We also wanted to see how elderly women and men experience to receive home-help-service in their own home. The study was based on qualitative interviews with elderly women and men. The informants were five women and four men between the ages of 60-84 years. They all had everyday help from the home-help-service.

Denna studie syftar till att analysera och f?rst? de breda effekterna av pensionsreformer i Sverige, Studien unders?ker specifikt hur dessa reformer p?verkar arbetsbesluten och syssels?ttningsm?nstret hos ?ldre individer f?r b?de m?n och kvinnor. Data samlades framf?rallt fr?n Statistiska Centralbyr?n. Huvudsyftet ?r att analysera hur den ?kade ?ldersgr?nsen i Lagen om Anst?llningsskydd (LAS-?ldern) har p?verkat andelen ?ldre p? arbetsmarknaden .