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.

Bakgrund: Palliativ vård är en aktiv holistisk vård som utgår från den enskilde patientens livssituation. WHO definierar palliativ vård som ett förhållningssätt som syftar till att förbättra livskvaliteten för patienter och deras närstående som drabbats av livshotande sjukdom. Sjuksköterskans roll i denna vårdkontext kan beskrivas som relationsskapande, stödjande, kommunikativ och koordinerande. Patienten i palliativ vård befinner sig i en utsatt situation och dennes behov består i att upprätthålla god livskvalitet genom smärtlindring och existentiellt stöd. Denna situation ställer krav på sjuksköterskor att ständigt skapa och upprätthålla vårdrelationer med patienter som senare dör, vilket kan vara en utmaning för sjuksköterskan.Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva sjuksköterskors erfarenheter av att vårda patienter i palliativ vård.Metod: Litteraturöversikt baserad på åtta vetenskapliga kvalitativa artiklar hämtade från databaserna CINAHL och MEDLINE.

Under 2010 avled cirka 90 000 personer i Sverige, varav 80 procent bedömdes ha behov av palliativ vård. Palliativ vård ges oberoende av diagnos och ålder under personers sista tid i livet. Den palliativa perioden varierar, beroende från person till person. Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur både sjuksköterskan och patienten ser på autonomi och värdighet vid palliativ vård. Metoden som valts är litteraturöversikt med kvalitativa artiklar som kvalitetsgranskats.

Background:Existential and spiritual thoughts are a big part of pallative care. The terms existential and spiritual can be understood in many different ways. It may mean thoughts about faith or thoughts concerning life and death. The nurse in palliative care need to have good communication skills, be responsible and be present and supportive in meeting with the patient.Aim:To describe the nurse's experiences of meeting patients' existential and spiritual thoughts in palliative care.Methods:A literature review based on 10 scientific studies have been done. The studies have been downloaded from the following scientific databases; Academic Search preimer, CINAHL Plus with   Full Text, and PubMed.

SammanfattningBakgrund: Betydelsen av begreppet kultur kan variera. I det här arbetet används begreppet kultur för människor från ett gemensamt ursprung och/eller med gemensamma kulturella uppfattningar. Globaliseringen ökar i Sverige och i världen vilket leder till en stor blandning av människor från olika kulturer, detta ställer höga krav på sjuksköterskan. Att möta och vårda lidande och döende patienter med annan kulturell bakgrund än dem själva kan vara något av det svåraste en sjuksköterska kan ställas inför.Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att beskriva sjuksköterskors upplevelser av att vårda patienter från olika kulturer inom den palliativa vården.Metod: Detta är en litteraturstudie där åtta vårdvetenskapliga tidskriftsartiklar valts ut efter en noggrann granskning av dess innehåll. Artiklarna har hittats i databaserna Cinahl, Pubmed och Medline.

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.

Bakgrund: Palliativ vård är en aktiv holistisk vård som utgår från den enskilde patientens livssituation. WHO definierar palliativ vård som ett förhållningssätt som syftar till att förbättra livskvaliteten för patienter och deras närstående som drabbats av livshotande sjukdom. Sjuksköterskans roll i denna vårdkontext kan beskrivas som relationsskapande, stödjande, kommunikativ och koordinerande. Patienten i palliativ vård befinner sig i en utsatt situation och dennes behov består i att upprätthålla god livskvalitet genom smärtlindring och existentiellt stöd. Denna situation ställer krav på sjuksköterskor att ständigt skapa och upprätthålla vårdrelationer med patienter som senare dör, vilket kan vara en utmaning för sjuksköterskan.Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva sjuksköterskors erfarenheter av att vårda patienter i palliativ vård.Metod: Litteraturöversikt baserad på åtta vetenskapliga kvalitativa artiklar hämtade från databaserna CINAHL och MEDLINE.

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.

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.

Bakgrund: Inom den palliativa vården har möjligheten att få vårdas i hemmet ökat genom åren. Idag vet man att närstående utför betydande insatser inom vården och omsorgen och att deras insatser bedöms vara tidsmässigt mycket större än från den offentliga vården. Att vara närstående till någon som är sjuk är en upplevelse som är unik för varje enskild individ. Upplevelsen av isolering, att behöva ignorera sina egna känslor och kämpa för sin egen överlevnad kan uppstå hos de närstående som vårdar en sjuk i hemmet.Syfte: Att belysa närståendes upplevelser av palliativ hemsjukvård.Metod: En litteraturöversikt har gjorts baserad på elva vetenskapliga artiklar som granskats och analyserats. De databaser som använts vid artikelsökningen är Cinahl plus with Full Text, PubMed samt Medline with full text med sökorden Family, Palliative home care, Experiences och Sweden.

Title: Argument in favour of and against private health care ? A scenario for a future health care with a possibly new Government Authors: Jessica Andersson, Nina Gunnarsson Supervisor: Thomas Danborg Department: School of Management, Blekinge Institute of Technology Course: Bachelor?s thesis in Business Administration, 10 credits Purpose: To describe the problem with privatizing of the health care by analyse the arguments in favour of and against private health care and describe a scenario about a future health care with a possibly new Government. Method: Qualitative Grounded theory method, categorizing secondary facts in order to get the complete picture. Results: The market for private health care will increase by a possibly new Government.