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. .

The intention of our study was to examine differences in experiences between elderly women and men from the Home?help service. It?s a qualitative study based on interviews and data collection.Five categories are presented in the result of the study. The categories are based on interviews with three elderly women and three elderly men who all have Home?help service.

Purpose: Our aim is to get an insight on how Home care workers experience, handle and looks upon their work. We also want to form an opinion of how Home care workers experience the relationship to the clients they meet.Questions: How does Home care workers experience their daily work with their clients? Home care workers daily meet many different sorts of clients with different needs, how do they handle this? What kind of support does Home care workers get in their work?Method: A qualitative design with semistructured interviews.Conclusion: The most central conclusion from all of our interviews were: that Home care service workers has a very stressful and demanding occupation, that the work has a low status, that the personnel has a big responsibility for the wellbeing of other people and that they often find their work satisfying and fun. To have someone to talk to and exchange ideas with was also mentioned by the informants as a vital part of feeling support in their work. From the Antonovskys theory, a sense of coherence, and Goffmans views of the society, we also find that the larger part of our informants feel a high sense of coherence and that when they have to adjust to their different caretakers they play different roles..

The purpose of this essay was to look into whether any attention is paid to the biological children in foster families when the investigation about foster Home is made. I did some qualitative interviews with six foster Home-investigators, working in five different municipalities. Some of the main questions have been: Do the investigator meet the biological children during an investigation? Are the children´s opinions taken into consideration? Is the suitability of a foster Home judged even from the biological children´s perspective?It was shown that it could happen that a foster Home was not approved, if it for some reasons should be a negative experience for the biological children, if a foster child would be placed in their Home. All the six persons in my interviews thought that it is important to take the biological children´s opinions into consideration, and that the family is not suitable to be a foster Home if not all of the family members have a positive attitude.

The focus of this thesis is on what is considered to be a suitable foster Home. For the study to be carried out an application had to be made to get access to the foster Home assessments in a medium-sized municipality in Sweden. With the support of attachment theory and theory of standards different categories have been picked out and analyzed in foster Home assessements that have been approved. The conclusion to what is considered to be a suitable foster Home is a complex issue, as there are many factors that are interacting. Social workers seem to focus on the importance of a family?s ability to provide some kind of stability and security for a child who is considered to be placed within their Home.

This essay is about what considerations foster Home secretary may face in their profession and how they use themselves as a tool. We were interested in the family Home secretaries as a profession and we found that this area is relatively unexplored. The essay is based on semi-structured interviews with ten family Home secretaries from seven different municipalities. To interpret our results, we used Mead's theory of "Mind, Self and Society". Our paper shows that family secretaries are faced with a variety of considerations in the selection of foster Homes.

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.

The aim of this study was to examine what knowledge social workers express about Home visits in child welfare investigations and how they know what to do. Sixteen social workers who work with social investigations concerning children were asked to discuss the topic Home visit in three focus group interviews in three different municipalities in southern Sweden. The social workers in our focus group interviews mainly discussed the purpose of the Home visit, what social workers do during Home visits and furthermore their opinions about guidelines and policy documents regarding the Home visit.  To get an understanding of what type of knowledge is the basis for social workers use of the Home visit, we used Polanyi's concept of 'tacit knowing' as well as the Aristotelian theory of knowledge containing three forms of knowledge, that is, episteme, techne and fronesis. We found that the displaying of ?tacit knowing? was a consistent feature in all groups, as they had difficulty expressing their knowledge use.

The aim of this study has been to achieve an increased understanding of the meaning of Home for people in Homelessness. The study is based on texts written by people in Homelessness and a qualitative content analysis has been used to process the material. The result has been analysed with an inductive approach, using parts of the analysis method grounded theory. Three aspects of the meaning of Home was identified in the texts; control, self-determination and independence. The lack of a Home means a major limitation concerning these aspects, according to the texts.

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 aim of this study was to investigate nurse?s experience of working from the philosophy of palliative care in end of life at Home. The study had a qualitative design. Semi-structured interviews were performed with nine nurses working in advanced palliative Home care. The analysis of the material revealed four categories and two subcategories.

Background:The concept of transition means a change in a person's life where he or she is forced to adapt. There are different phases in life that results in different adaptations. In this essay, transition is described as the physical and mental journey between the Home and an elder care facility. The Aim was to describe elderly people's experiences of transition when moving from their previous Home into an elder care facility. The Method used was a literature review.

Aim:The study's aim is to examine whether and to what extent elementary school pupils aged 13 and 16 report that they ever have been forced to leave Home by parents, have run away from Home voluntarily or have seriously considered doing so. The aim is also to illuminate which circumstances contribute to these break-ups. Method: A quantitative approach is used; a survey material consisting of 1193 questionnaires is analysed. The data material has been used in earlier studies but the issue addressed here has not been studied earlier. The circumstances analysed are gender, ethnicity, the parents? religious belief and education, living conditions (sharing Home with both parents, one of them or none), contacts with professionals (psychologist, school nurse or curator), physical and mental wellbeing, way of upbringing (liberal vs authoritarian) and communication with parents.

The objective of this study was to explore the mechanisms controlling elderly people's choice of staying in there own Home.The main questions were: What makes some people move to retirement Homes while some people stay in their own Home? What is the emotional relation to housing for people in general and elderly people in particular? How does the assessment of aid and application of the law affect elderly people's possibility to choose their way of living? What mechanisms during the twentieth century have controlled the society's way of looking on elderly people's housing? What future scenarios can we expect concerning elderly people's housing?Our method consisted of a literature study combined with qualitative interviews.The authors found a complex picture concerning elderly people's relationship to their housing and the will, wishes and possibilities to move to a retirement Home or stay in their own Home. One factor that affects elderly people's will to move is a deteriorated health. Another is the increased need of a safe living and access to personnel at all time. Also the assessment of aid and application of the law affect elderly people's possibility to stay at Home or to move to a retirement Home.

To be able to adopt, the future adoptive parents must participate in parental education and have a Home investigation done. The Home investigation is extensive and great demands are made on the parents. The purpose with this study was to get an insight and understanding in the parents? thoughts and feelings about the demands and expectations that are made on them during an international adoption. To answer this, we used these questions: Which demands and expectations are made on the future adoptive parents by the Home investigator and the parental educator? How do the future adoptive parents experience the demands and expectations that are made on them before an adoption? Does the apprehension about the demands and expectations differ between the future adoptive parents and the Home investigator contrary the parental educator? We used a qualitative method, interviewing four couples of parents, one Home investigator and one parental educator.