title: Managing occupations in everyday life for people with advanced cancer living at home.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  People with advanced cancer are able to live for extended periods of time. Advanced cancer can cause functional limitations influencing the ability to manage occupations. Although studies have shown that people with advanced cancer experience occupational difficulties, there is only limited research that specifically explores how these occupational difficulties are managed.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To describe and explore how people with advanced cancer manage occupations when living at home.
  
  
  METHODS
  A sub-sample of 73 participants from a larger occupational therapy project took part in the study. The participants were consecutively recruited from a Danish university hospital. Qualitative interviews were performed at the homes of the participants. Content analysis was applied to the data.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Managing occupations were manifested in two main categories; (1) Conditions influencing occupations in everyday life and (2) Self-developed strategies to manage occupations.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The findings suggest that people with advanced cancer should be supported to a greater extent in finding ways to manage familiar as well as new and more personally meaningful occupations to enhance quality of life.
authors: a Department of Public Health, Research Unit for General Practice, The Research Initiative for Activity Studies and Occupational Therapy , University of Southern Denmark , Odense , Denmark.
authors: Hanne
authors: H
authors: Peoples
authors: a Department of Public Health, Research Unit for General Practice, The Research Initiative for Activity Studies and Occupational Therapy , University of Southern Denmark , Odense , Denmark.|b The National Board of Social Services , Odense , Denmark.
authors: Åse
authors: Å
authors: Brandt
authors: a Department of Public Health, Research Unit for General Practice, The Research Initiative for Activity Studies and Occupational Therapy , University of Southern Denmark , Odense , Denmark.|c The Parker Institute, University Hospital Bispebjerg & Frederiksberg , Copenhagen , Denmark.
authors: Eva E
authors: EE
authors: Wæhrens
authors: a Department of Public Health, Research Unit for General Practice, The Research Initiative for Activity Studies and Occupational Therapy , University of Southern Denmark , Odense , Denmark.
authors: Karen
authors: K
authors: la Cour
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living / Q000523:psychology; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003718:Denmark; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D057187:Independent Living; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D009788:Occupational Therapy; D009790:Occupations; D036301:Qualitative Research; D019452:Terminally Ill / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: Content analysis; occupational engagement; qualitative descriptive design; self-developed strategies