The purpose of this study was to understand what the Care recipients considering as Care quality in their long-term elderCare. Our intention has been to contribute a bit to the development of the Care work. Previous studies show that user surveys are carried out regularly but there is very few studies that are based on Care recipients own opinions and experiences. The main questions in the study have been to examine what is considered as good elder Care from a user perspective. Even to understand the characteristics of a good meeting with the Care staff and also examine how the elder Care in Nybro municipality can improve.

Our purpose was to study how Care managers in practice evaluate needs in elderCare. A specific focus was set on elderly persons' sex, an area where former research show that decisions vary considerably. Were the Care managers influenced in their decision making by the elderly person's sex? If so, in what ways? Were there variations in the definition of elderCare needs between the four chosen municipalities. And, finally, how did the Care managers handle set criteria and priorities in their evaluation of such needs?The study was based on literature as well as interviews with eight Care managers, chosen from four Scanian municipalities.We arrived at the conclusion that there is no specific difference in how the Care managers evaluate elderCare needs in relation to sex..

Background: Home health Care means that patients receive Care in their home. Äldrevårdsenheten in Uppsala County treats people, over 65 years, in the patient's home and because of the fact that the quality of Care from the patient´s perspective not have been studied previously, this study as part of the quality control of the business.Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate how patients, and family members, who receive Care within the Äldrevårdsenheten in Uppsala County experiencing the Care provided in the home.Method: Interview study with qualitative analysis.Results: Patients who are Cared for within the Elderly Care Unit in Uppsala County Council has a positive experience of home Care. Being Cared for in the home creates a sense of security and calm in the patients rather than the stress and fear of long waits in the emergency department and planning advice from medical appointments . In contrast, perceived lack of physicians in home Care and accessibility to health Care staff.Conclusion: In general, patients in the Elderly Care Unit in Uppsala County Council very pleased with the opportunity to the treatment they received at home. However, there are some weaknesses that need improvement. .

Aim Our aim is to highlight perceptions of fibromyalgia among health Care personell.MethodsA systematic literature review conducted with a deductive approach.FindingsHealth Care personell felt insecure because of a lack of understanding which lead to avoiding contact with these patients. Many felt that the fibromyalgia patient was categorised and that they would have been better served with another name of their disease. There was a great distrust against the diagnosis and its aetiology. The patient was perceived as troublesome, illness-fixated and draining the personell of energy. The paradox that the patient is looking so healthy but bearing so much pain was confusing for the health Care personell.Conclusions Communication and an empathic encounter was identified as important elements for patient Care.

The aim with this study was to examine what it is that govern the way that municipalities develop the non-institutional Care for youth. An extensive development of non-institutional Care for children is a visible trend in municipal social service and probable reasons for this development are, among other things, research that show inadequate results of the institution Care and economy. Our main questions at issue were how the municipalities argue the priorities that have been done within their youth Care services with regard to the non-institutional Care and how they reason considering this? Furthermore we asked why the municipalities have chosen to develop their non-institutional Care for youth the way they have and on what grounds they make their choices? This study consists of eight qualitative interviews with politicians and employees in four different municipals along with analysis of relevant documents. We have found that what governs the way that municipalities develop the non-institutional Care for youth has to do with that the municipalities found it vital to find alternative solutions to the expensive and ineffective institutional Care, that they comprehend that the quality of non-institutional Care are higher then of the institutional Care and that the non- institutional Care is seen as more effective with regards to economic results and achieved treatment results.

This master thesis is an analysis of how the amount of health centers per inhabitant has changed since the Swedish government implemented a new health Care reform in 2010. The reform implies a free choice of health centers in the Swedish regions and opens up the market for private firms. The purpose of the thesis is to study the effects of the different financing systems toward the health centers in the regions. The models are based on theories of the need of health Care. Two of the independent variables which are studied are income and age.

The Swedish and the Finnish compulsory Care legislation that regards abusers differ in several ways. The arguments for compulsory Care and for the time which one will receive compulsory Care are dissimilar. The aim of this thesis is to describe and analyse which arguments for compulsory Care and the length of the Care time that has been expressed in the Swedish and the Finnish laws and in the statutes. The tools were an argumentation analysis, which is a form of qualitative text analysis method, combined with a hermeneutic scientific position. We have investigated the arguments that try to justify compulsory Care and the Care time that has been expressed in the laws and the statutes.

The aim of this study was to examine Care managers and how they understand and use their discretion. We used a qualitative method and the data was gathered by semi-structured interviews. We interviewed eight Care managers in four different municipalities in southern Sweden. The theoretical approach we used was Michael Lipsky?s theory about street-level bureaucracy.

People born 1940-1949 will be more demanding regarding help from the elder Care than previous generations. The explanation often proposed is that people born in the 1940?s grew up after the Second World War when cultural changes took place in society. The aim of this qualitative study was to describe the social needs of people born in the 1940?s today, in order to make cautious assumptions about what type of social needs elder Care is likely to face in the future, when the older people becomes in need of elder Care.

Palliative Care is a Care that focuses on providing end of life Care but not to delay or hasten death. Despite training, nurses often show a lack of knowledge in attitude, ethics and healthCare issues of palliative Care. The nurse in palliative Care has a central role in caring of the dying patient and therefore a big responsibility. However, palliative Care is a low priority in basic training. The aim of this study is to investigate the roles of nurses in palliative Care and if there is a need for increased education in the subject.

Background: Earlier studies show that nurses work environment is a factor that may affect the quality in nursing Care negatively. Other factors are: number of employees, working hours, work structure and planning and working relationships between colleagues. Work relationships are particularly important for nurses as they can affect patient safety. Nurses are prone to stressrelated illnesses and high stress levels prove to have a negative affect on the quality of nursing Care. To develop and assure the quality demands effort from every employee.

AbstractThe aim of this study was to find out how patients with type-2 diabetes reflected on self-Care and the information about selfCareactivites regarding diabetic footulcers.The study has a descriptive design with a qualitative approach. The study included fourteen patients with type-2 diabetes and they had footulcers related to their disease. They were recruited from different health centres in two cities in the Middle Sweden. The patients were interviewed and the interviewes were transcribed and worked up with qualitative content analysis. The authors recived seven subcategories which were sorted into two categories; reflection regarding information about self-Care and reflection regarding self-Care.

The first July 2008 did the Swedish government introduce a new family policy, the child Care allowance. This essay is a case study of how the child Care allowance has influenced families and which possible effects that the child Care allowance can lead to. In order to respond to the issue has family models been used in order to analyze the results from a questionnaire survey distributed to households which has become granted child Care allowance in Växjö municipality. Therefore is this essay?s premier contribution to the social science a description of how families have reasoned and decided about their child-Care.

Abstract Back ground: Home based Care is a meaningful activity giving patients and their families a chance to live their lives as close to normal as possible. Advanced palliative Care is today provided at home, although geography does play a role in shaping that Care. A rural setting can mean that conditions for such Care differ from those in urban areas.Purpose: To describe the experiences of district nurses in palliative home Care settings in a rural community.Method: Semi structured interviews with seven district nurses. The interviews were recorded digitally and transcribed in a precise fashion. A method of qualitative analysis of the contents, inspired by Burnard, was used to analyze the material.Results: Palliative Care places high demands on the competency and experience of district nurses.

The purpose of this essay was to examine and compare what attitudes Swedish and Belgian social workers may have towards residential Care and foster Care for children and young people. To answer the purpose eight qualitative interviews with four Swedish and four Belgian social workers were made. The results were analyzed by theory of organization and professional acting space. The results of the study show that the social workers in both countries preferred foster Care, especially for small children, and that the Swedish social workers had a more negative attitude towards residential Care than the Belgian social workers. Even though the Belgian social workers preferred foster Care, they found themselves forced to choose residential Care due to lack of available foster Care facilities, something that did not seem to affect the Swedish social workers.