The everlasting trial of strength and patience': transitions in home care nursing as narrated by patients and family members.
The aim of this study was to describe and interpret patients' and their family members' lived experiences of caring at home. Twelve tape-recorded narratives, with seven patients and five family members, were interpreted in accordance with a phenomenological-hermeneutic method inspired by Ricoeur. The findings revealed life situations where natural caring was changed into patient-care-giver relations and the home became a public room. The patients had to deal with decreased abilities and the family members with adjusting to caring needs. The changes in the life situations were interpreted as long lasting and trying transitions. Implications for nursing and further research are proposed.
Efraimsson
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Borås University College of Health Sciences, Sweden. eva.efraimsson@hb.se
Höglund
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Sandman
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D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D000739:Anecdotes as Topic; D001294:Attitude to Health; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D017281:Cost of Illness; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000592:standards*; D006701:Home Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020380:Needs Assessment; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D011637:Public Health Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D011788:Quality of Life; D012423:Rural Health; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013548:Sweden; D013997:Time Factors