Moments of homecoming among people with advanced dementia disease in a residential care facility.
This study concerns moments of homecoming among people with advanced dementia disease living in a residential care facility. Our main finding from participant observations with nine residents was that the residents showed moments of homecoming, i.e. they alternated between verbal and/or nonverbal expressions of feeling at home and of not feeling at home. If care providers understand that they can help people with advanced dementia disease experience moments of homecoming, they can focus on aspects of care that can promote these experiences.
The Palliative Research Centre, Ersta Sköndal University College, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Nursing, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
Astrid
A
Norberg
The Palliative Research Centre, Ersta Sköndal University College, Stockholm, Sweden; Division of Nursing, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Britt-Marie
BM
Ternestedt
Department of Nursing, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
Berit
B
Lundman
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D003704:Dementia / Q000451:nursing*; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology; D012112:Residential Facilities
dementia; ethnography; feeling at home; homecoming; residential care