In this essay I analyze the meaning of the concepts Home and at Home and the feeling of coming Home. What is a Home and what different interpretations are there regarding the concepts of Home and being at Home? What kinds of feelings are aroused by coming Home? The world we live in offers great opportunities to travel, which in itself creates a perspective on the meanings of the concepts. The world we live in also forces people to move from their Homes, families and countries due to various reasons, which creates various problems and a certain urgency concerning the concepts. I describe basic terms concerning the concepts, both regarding concrete definitions and more abstract notions, and then compare them with my own reflections.         Based on my writing project Coming Home I discuss these questions in various ways.

The proportion of elderly people in Sweden is increasing. Many of these live at Home and as their age increases so does the likelihood of health problems and the need for support, medical attention and care. Personnel working with Home help provide a large part of this care, including areas of Home-based care that are the responsibility of the district nurse. The purpose of this paper is to describe how Home-help personnel perceive their work in the area of Home-based care, as their views are an important factor in the ability to provide a care system that funktions successfully. The method employed here is phenomenografic and nine subjects from a Home-help group have been interviewed.

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.

The aim with this thesis is to study how the phenomenon young people who run away from Home (runaways) is presented in the research literature. The question at issue in our thesis is: How does research literature present the phenomenon of young people who run away from Home? We have selected seven primary documents that we consider gives a broad picture of the knowledge about runaways. We have a postmodern and a hermeneutic approach in our thesis. Our material has been analyzed on the basis of social constructionist theory and the new sociological paradigm of childhood.

The aim of the study was to understand how the family Home secretary reasons and thinks and how they express themselves in their actions towards the family Home?s biological children. The method used is qualitative semi-structured interviews, involving six family Home secretaries from four different municipalities. The results were analyzed with the help of two theories ? the theory of grassroots bureaucracy and the sociology of childhood theory.

The aim of the study was to understand how the family Home secretary reasons and thinks and how they express themselves in their actions towards the family Home?s biological children. The method used is qualitative semi-structured interviews, involving six family Home secretaries from four different municipalities. The results were analyzed with the help of two theories ? the theory of grassroots bureaucracy and the sociology of childhood theory.

The aim of this paper is to look into the occurrence of Home schooling by choice in Sweden. It examines the subject of Home education in order to provide an informative overview. It also looks into the legal aspects of the matter to see whether freedom of choice is an issue here when it comes to choosing a certain type of teaching for children of compulsory school age. A further purpose is to provide a comparison of Home education in Sweden and in other countries such as the United States, England and Norway.In order to do this we have carried out a secondary analysis of previous research and have also interviewed teachers as well as people with experience of Home educating their own children. To accomplish this, we had to look to England for literature and Home educating families as Home education is a much more common practise in England.The result of this paper strongly indicates that Home schooling is not only a legally viable option to traditional schooling, both in Sweden and the other countries concerned, but that it is also a trend that is expected to increase.

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.

Background: In Sweden and Norway planned Home birth is not included in the health care system. In Denmark women with expected low risk birth have the right to choose Home birth. Registrations of Home births in the Nordic countries are not completed and women?s experiences of planned Home birth in Scandinavian context are not earlier described.Objective: The aim of this study was to describe women?s experiences of planned Home birth in the Scandinavian countries.Design: Inductive content analysis. Fifty-three Scandinavian women who have experienced planned Home birth have replied an open question in a questionnaire.

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.

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 the literature review was to investigate how relatives to a person suffering from dementia, in institution, experienced the nursing hom staff and the relation to them. The study was based on eight scientific articles. The result gave thirteen themes, that showed that relatives experienced the nursing Home staff having a hard work under pressure. They were nice but without knowledge. The relatives experienced that the nursing Home staff didn´t see or hear them and gave no confidence.

This study, a narrative analysis of it, deals with the term, Home, its importance and the use of it by Child welfare investigators in the city of Malmö between the years 1930-1936. Commonly used and acknowledged, Home stood for security and order while the term, street, had just the opposite meaning. Living in the countryside symbolized health and sensibility, while city life was considered to be cramped, dirty and immoral. The responsibility of achieving the liberals and conservatives ideal of a sunny, clean and orderly Home was given to the woman of the house, as was the task of keeping the Home morally correct, and providing the necessary atmosphere for proper upbringing of the children. Consequently, the basis of theory, using Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in regards to the conflicts between the upper and lower classes, and even theories of Jane Lewis of woman´s connection to Home and family, have been the grounds for the study.

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.

Det problem som denna uppsats hade för avsikt att besvara var varför hemautomation inte används i fler hem. Genom resultaten från en enkät som distribuerades kunde slutsatsen att kostnaden för de befintliga lösningar som finns på marknaden idag inte låg i den prisklass våra respondenter ansåg rimlig. Författarna utvecklade då problemet och ställde sig frågan om en hemautomationslösning verkligen måste ha en så hög kostnad som de befintliga lösningarna har idag. För att belysa detta problem implementerades en egen kostnadseffektiv lösning där respondenternas mest önskvärda funktioner togs i beaktande och en testmiljö implementerades utefter dessa. Resultatet blev en hemautomationslösning med stor potential och med en betydligt lägre kostnad än dagens befintliga lösningar..