Background:When the patient is critically ill the Family is in a vulnerable position. The nurse's role is to support and help the Family to find meaning in the difficult situation and to provide realistic hope. Balancing between the patient's and the Family's needs is difficult. Knowledge about how nurses experience difficulties in the interaction with Family is required in order to grant good care too critically ill patients and their Family-members.Aim:To describe nurses' perceived difficulties in the interaction with Family-members of critically ill patients.Method:The study is a qualitative literature-based study based on qualitative research. Results: The analysis resulted in four main themes; difficult disunion, environmental constraints, interpersonal difficulties and communicative difficulties.

Work gets more seamless and the demand on workers increases because of changes in the labour market. Studies show benefits for workers and companies if the employee achieves a balance between work and Family, a way to facilitate it is Family-friendly policies. A study done by Unionen shows that three out of four white collar workers choose to vobba (working and caring for a sick child), which blurs the boundaries between work and Family. Research on flexibility, organisational culture and gender structures shows how these aspects affect the balance between work and Family. This is a study where seven white collar workers (three men) that vobbar and two managers (one man) were interviewed.

This thesis aims to examine the conditions for entrepreneurship in Taiwan by the occurrence of cultural phenomenon guanxi. Based on the concept of familiness and guanxi, the Family is central in this study of Family business. Traditional descriptions of the Asian culture claim that guanxi is vital in the business context. Though, recent studies indicate that significance of guanxi seems to be changing. Therefore the purpose of this thesis is to create an understanding of the importance and relevance of guanxi in the context of Taiwanese Family business.By travelling to Kaohsiung, Taiwan to interview six managers of Taiwanese Family firms this study?s empirical material was gathered for further processing based on a qualitative approach.

The Family and relatives caring for older people in Sweden lies on an old tradition. The responsibility to care for older Family members has gone from Family to the society. The aim of this study was to examine the needs of Family caregivers and their experience of municipality support. This study includes only the Family caregivers who have the main responsibility for the care of relatives and have support from the municipality. The caregivers were not allowed to work more than 50 percent in another job.

Background: Diabetes mellitus Type 1 is one of the most common chronicle diseases in childhood. This signifies big changes in the daily life for the child and its Family. Aim: The aim of the study was to illustrate the Family?s situation when the child falls ill in Type 1 diabetes. Method: The search for literature has been done both manually and in databases.

  Author: Moa di Zazzo EilertsenTitle: ?Children should not grow up like that. They may turn out the same?: Social workers, working with foster care investigations, reasoning about Family and Family structures of foster homes. [translated title]Supervisor: Annika StaafAssessor: Norma MontesinoThere has been a change in Family structure which shows that the nuclear Family, which is still the main form of Family pattern, is becoming less frequent nowadays.

This bachelor essay studies families that have migrated from countries in Europe to Sweden,and their experiences of adapting to new conditions of the Swedish welfare state. Theirexperiences are studied firstly from an institutional point of view, which refers to the Family?s experience of adapting Family life to Swedish Family social policy. Secondly it focuses how the families experience new norms and values connected to Swedish Family social policy. The main aim is to seek what problems families migrating to Sweden might be confronted with when adapting to new conditions of the welfare state.

Title: Every second week. A study on how co-parented children do Family. The aim of the study is to explore children?s day-to-day experiences of co-parenting. It focuses on how the children actively participate in the process of shaping Family life and their own childhoods in the context of Family change.

BACKGROUND: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a slow progressive disease affecting the Family caregivers by limiting their lifestyle. Subsequently the situation can be experienced as stressful for both the afflicted and the relatives. To easier understand the needs of the caregivers of Family members suffering from COPD have, it is important to get an insight into their experience of every-day life, so that medical staff can help, support and promote their health according to their needs. AIM: To illustrate caregivers? experiences of living with a Family member suffering from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

The purpose of our study is to examine the case managers reasoning and descriptions of empowerment as a method in their social work from a comprehensively perspective including Family members. To manage with this purpose we interviewed two case managers, two clients with mental disabilities and five Family members. We have come to the conclusion that the case managers works more consist of advocacy than empowerment. Despite that we have found that the long term goal for the case mangers work is to give the clients tools for empowerment. Our results also show that the clients feel that they have gained and increased their ability to do things by themselves and to be a part of the community.

This thesis takes as its point of departure the Swedish governmental Family policy and the debate on the proposed reform ?vårdnadsbidraget?. The supporters of the reform present it as something that will increase the freedom of choice for families and benefit the children, whereas the opponents warn for decreased equality and a return to the male breadwinner-model.From a constructivist perspective, language is closely related to power through defining and ascribing meaning to reality. By applying a feminist political theory on the debate within the Swedish national parliament 2007/2008 and conducting a discourse analysis, the aim of this paper is to analyse which concepts are used and how they construct to what makes a Family within the political debate ? is there any difference or similarity between the view of the opponents and the supporters of ?vårdnadsbidraget??The main conclusion of this paper is that even though the political ideal and rhetorical concepts differ between the supporters and the opponents, they still constitute the heterosexual nuclear Family as an obvious norm in Family politics.

The paper aims to examine how the wives of men with dementia experience their lives and how they perceive support from the society. The paper also aims to highlight the Family care consultants´ work and views on support for families of people with dementia.Three spouses of people with dementia and three Family care consultants were interviewed and the results were analyzed using Antonovsky's (1991) three theoretical concepts; comprehensibility, manageability and meaningfulness that comes from his theory Sense of coherence.The results show that the three wives whose men suffered from dementia spend most of their time, effort and energy on their husbands. They do not have time to think about their own needs and what support they feel they could use for themselves. They do not think about themselves as caregivers, they are spouses.Family care consultants are well aware of the importance of meeting and see the relatives in their lives, and denounces the importance of a support designed individually. Family care consultants understand that the most important and the best support society can provide a Family care giver is that their close ones are well taken care of and given good care..

The aim of this thesis is to examine what factors that influences the management control in a Family business operating in a sector in which they are under-represented. We have therefore conducted a case study of a Family business in the finance sector, E. Öhman J: or Fondkommission AB (Öhman). The first conclusion is that the management control in Öhman is influenced by the environment and the increasing size of the company. We have found, however, that it is to an even larger extent affected by the fact that it is a Family business even though the company is operating in a sector in which Family businesses are not the norm.

The purpose with this study is to find out the experience of growing up in a Family where the biological parents, has taken the assignment as Family child caregiver?s. We have taken the help from the following question formulations to immerse ourselves in the subject. How do the biological children experience their relationship to their parents? How do the biological children experience their relationship to the children who are placed in their home? How do the biological children experience their participation in the Family home? How do the biological children experience the need for support from outside the Family? We have used a qualitative research method and interviewed six respondents with help from a semi-structured interview guide to get the respondents unique experiences told.

The EU guarantees the free movement of persons. The citizens of the EU Member States have the right to move freely without barriers within the EU borders and this result in an integration of the peoples in Europe. The integration result in several international Family relationships. It is not unusual in the present situation that families have international relations. For example, spouses in a married couple may have different nationality.