scholarly journals Care in practice: negotiations regarding care for the elderly in multigenerational Arab Muslim families in Denmark

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abir Mohamad Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Senior Housing ◽  
Care For The Elderly ◽  
Arab Muslim ◽  
Minority Families ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Elderly Family ◽  
At Home

AbstractRecent studies conclude that ethnic minority families in Denmark tend to be dismissive of senior housing and municipal homecare services for elderly family members. A large proportion of Muslim minority families in Denmark attach great importance to caring for the elderly as a tradition and prefer to take care of their own elderly family members at home. Nevertheless, the fact that morality, incentives, and obligations in relation to care for the elderly may be legitimized and/or contested with reference to cultural traditions and Islam has not received much attention in current research. In this article, drawing on material from ongoing ethnographic fieldwork among Arab Muslim families in Denmark, I discuss how cultural and religious backgrounds may determine and influence perceptions and behavior regarding care for the elderly. By observing and engaging in the everyday life of an Arab Muslim family, I explore how caring for elderly people with health problems at home raises specific questions about obligations and triggers negotiations across genders and generations. I argue that besides kinship and ethnicity, it is equally important to consider religiosity in an attempt to learn more about how Arab Muslims care for their elderly family members.

scholarly journals Nurses' Perceptions of Their Relationships with Informal Carers in Institutional Respite Care for Older People

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sirpa Salin ◽  
Marja Kaunonen ◽  
Päivi Åstedt-Kurki
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Family Members ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Respite Care ◽  
Informal Carer ◽  
Primary Nursing ◽  
Care For The Elderly ◽  
Nurses Perceptions ◽  
At Home

The purpose of this study was to describe nurses' experiences of their collaboration and relationships with family members in institutional respite care for the elderly. The family has a particularly important role in respite care, which is an extension of care provided at home. However no published studies were found on this subject. The data were collected through qualitative interviews (N=22). Content analysis of the nurses’ descriptions of their collaboration with family members yielded four main categories as follows: (1) conscious ignoring, (2) attempting to understand the family’s situation, (3) hinting at private family matters, and (4) being a friend. The results lend support to earlier findings which emphasize the complexity of relationships between nurses and family carers. A novel finding here is that these relationships may also develop into friendships. Greater emphasis must be placed on primary nursing so that the nurse and informal carer can build up a genuine relationship of trust. If periods of respite care are to help older people and their families to manage independently, it is imperative that nurses have the opportunity to visit their patients at home.

scholarly journals Home Interactive Elderly Care Two-Way Video Healthcare System Design

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Chun Yi ◽  
Xiqiang Feng
Keyword(s):  
Interaction Design ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Service System ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Care For The Elderly ◽  
Behavioural Characteristics ◽  
Function Modules ◽  
At Home

This paper explores and analyses the interactive home geriatric two-way video health care system, investigates and analyses the daily lives and behaviours of the elderly in their homes through research interviews, obtains the main needs of the elderly population in their lives, as well as their cognitive and behavioural characteristics, and proposes four service function modules for the elderly in their homes; then, combining service design and interaction design theory, we propose the following four service modules for the elderly in their homes. Given the design methods and processes of the intelligent service system for the elderly at home as well as the interface interaction design principles on the three levels of vision, interaction, and reflection, the intelligent service system platform for the elderly at home was constructed, the interaction design of the mobile device terminal software of the service system platform practiced in the form of APP, and the eye-movement experiment method and fuzzy hierarchical analysis were applied to the design of the intelligent service system for the elderly at home from qualitative and quantitative perspectives. The thesis study provides a new way of thinking to design and provide intelligent service system products for the elderly living at home, which is an important contribution to society’s care for the elderly and their quality of life. The key features of the human skeleton are extracted from the model of abnormal leaning and falling behaviour of the elderly, and the SVM machine learning method is used to classify and identify the data, which enables the identification of the abnormal behaviour of the elderly at home with an accuracy of 97%.

scholarly journals Research on the Combination of Commercially Available Thickeners and Commercially Available Nursing Food - By using Universal Design Food: UDF (Do not have to Bite)

2020 ◽  
pp. 49-53
Author(s):  
Naomi Katayama ◽  
Mayumi Hirabayashi ◽  
Shoko Kondo
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Universal Design ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Viscosity Measurement ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Care For The Elderly ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Line Spread ◽  
At Home

Assuming home care for the elderly, we aimed to create a nursing food that can be created even at home, considering the combination of thickeners and foods, and creating useful data. Therefore, we used two types of thickeners that can purchase at pharmacies and three types of commercially available nursing food that can eat without chewing. Line Spread Test Start Kit (LST) manufactured by SARAYA used for viscosity measurement. The two types of thickeners used this time became more viscous when added to the food. And the viscosity of the food could be maintained over time (this time after 5minutes). However, in the case of foods rich in lipids, the thickener B was able to maintain the viscosity more than the thickener A. It is necessary to select a thickener that is compatible with the raw material ratio of the food.

中国家庭护理工作的现状及其对非正规经济的启示

Rural China ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-60 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Informal Economy ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Family Members ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Care Work ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Care For The Elderly ◽  
Urban Migrants ◽  
Potential Migrant ◽  
Direct Use

China’s expanding workforce of rural–urban migrants is increasingly involved in care work while simultaneously facing issues of care within its own ranks for its family members. The work examined here concerns care—for the elderly and ill, for children, and in everyday domestic labor. This form of work is widely performed predominantly by migrant women in (usually) urban households in circumstances lacking labor protections. They are performing work that creates value and that constitutes a key service sector of the informal economy. Much the same population provides similar care work for family members of their own (usually) in the countryside, work that also creates value but is normally unremunerated. Rural migrant and potential migrant women may be in complex social positions where their work is needed in both circumstances, and are in both circumstances providing value for their families—through income earned and through work of direct use value. The work in both instances is socially structured through being in or outside the informal economy and in or outside ties of kinship. This article argues for an expanded and adequately gendered concept of the informal economy based on value and Maussian concepts of human economy. 中国日益增加着由乡村进入城市的大量投入到保姆工作中的劳动力，与其同时也面临着她们对其自身家庭成员的照料问题。本文关切的是家庭护理问题，这里指的是对老人，病患，孩子的照料，以及日常家务劳动。这种工作主要是由农村妇女来到通常是城市的家庭中，在缺少正规劳动保护的环境中工作。她们劳动创造的价值构成了非正规经济服务职能中的一个核心部分。这群打工族大多来自农村，并在其自身家庭中承担着同样的照料工作。然而这种同样创造着价值的工作一般并没有得到补偿。来自乡村的打工族及潜在的妇女民工可能处于一种复杂的社会地位中，她们的工作在这两种社会环境中都迫切需要，并都为她们的家庭或通过所挣工资，或通过直接使用其劳动创造着价值。这两种工作情况——在非正规经济之中或其外，以及在亲属关系之中或其外，都是社会构成的。本文提出一种基于价值观与人类学马塞尔莫斯学派的人性经济概念, 并进一步将其扩展并充分性别化的非正规经济。 (This article is in English.)

A Dynamic Long-Term Care System for the Demented Elderly

1996 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 561-574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Annerstedt ◽  
Junko Sanada ◽  
Lars Gustafson
Keyword(s):  
Long Term Care ◽  
Group Living ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Nursing Home Care ◽  
Behavioral Disturbances ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Care For The Elderly ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Care System

The dynamic processes and the way they interact in shaping a care system for demented patients are analyzed and discussed. The development of disability/dependency, interpreted in a simulation model based on Katz's index of ADL and Berger's scale “Rating the severity of senility,” gave insight into the interplay of four care levels: psychogenatric long-term care for patients with severe behavioral disturbances, nursing-home care for patients with highly reduced ADL capacity who are often moderately to severely demented, group-living care for the demented with less dominating ADL dependency, and residential care for the elderly frail with or without symptoms of dementia. For each facility in this chain of care, characteristics in patients' symptomatology and behavior could also be identified. Resources necessary in order to fulfill goals in caring differed between each facility.

scholarly journals PELAKSANAAN TUGAS KELUARGA DI BIDANG KESEHATAN: MENGENAL MASALAH HIPERTENSI TERHADAP KEJADIAN HIPERTENSI PADA LANSIA DI KELURAHAN TIMBANGAN KECAMATAN INDRALAYA UTARA KABUPATEN OGAN ILIR

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Madepan Mulia
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
District Health ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Chi Square Test ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Elderly Family

ABSTRAK Hipertensi adalah salah satu penyebab kematian nomor satu secara global yang memerlukan penanggulangan yang baik. Hasil Survei Kesehatan Rumah Tangga (SKRT) tahun 2007 menunjukkan bahwa prevalensi penyakit hipertensi pada lansia di Indonesia cukup tinggi, yaitu 83 per 1.000 anggota rumah tangga. Data dari Dinas Kesehatan Kabupaten Ogan Ilir tahun 2010 menunjukkan bahwa hipertensi merupakan penyakit terbanyak ketiga yang menyerang lansia. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan pelaksanaan tugas keluarga di bidang kesehatan: mengenal masalah hipertensi terhadap kejadian hipertensi pada lansia. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian analitik kuantitatif dengan pendekatan cross sectional. Penelitian ini dilakukan terhadap keluarga dengan anggota keluarga lansia yang berusia lebih dari 60 tahun yang tersebar di Kelurahan Timbangan yang berjumlah 94 responden, dengan menggunakan alat bantu kuesioner. Untuk menguji hubungan digunakan analisis menggunakan uji Chi-Square. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ada hubungan antara pelaksanaan tugas keluarga di bidang kesehatan: mengenal masalah hipertensi terhadap kejadian hipertensi (p=0,000). Dari hasil penelitian ini disarankan kepada keluarga agar dapat meningkatkan derajat kesehatan dan mengatasi masalah kesehatan anggota keluarganya, khususnya lansia, dengan meningkatkan pengetahuan terkait penyakit hipertensi pada lansia.   Kata kunci: Hipertensi, lansia, tugas keluarga di bidang kesehatan   ABSTRACT Hypertension is one of the number one causes of death globally that needs a good response. Results of Household Health Survey (SKRT) in 2007 showed that prevalence of hypertension disease in elderly in Indonesia is quite high, that is 83 per 1,000 household members. Data from the District Health Office Ogan Ilir in 2010 showed that hypertension is the third disease that attacks the elderly. This study aims to determine the relationship of family duties in the field of health: know health problems in the elderly with the incidence of hypertension in the elderly. This research is a quantitative analytical research with cross sectional approach. This study was conducted on families with elderly family members aged over 60 years scattered in the village of Timbangan, which amounted to 94 respondents, using a questionnaire tool. To test the relationship used analysis using Chi-Square test. The results showed that there was a relationship between the implementation of family duty in the field of health: know health problems in the elderly with the incidence of hypertension (p = 0.000). From the results of this study suggested to the family in order to improve the degree of health and to overcome the health problems of family members, especially the elderly, by performing family duties in the field of health is to know health problems in the elderly.   Keywords: Hypertension, elderly, family duty in the field of health

Gambaran Tingkat Stres Caregiver yang Merawat Lansia : Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 865-871
Author(s):  
Usmut Muttakhidlah ◽  
Dyah Putri Aryati
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Stress Level ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Mild Stress ◽  
Care For The Elderly ◽  
Work Factors ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Elderly Caregivers

AbstractThe elderly population in increasing rapidly. The elderly will experience seversl chnge both physically, physiologically, cognitively, and mentally. Family plays in important role in providing care. Elderly care must be done carefully, patiently, and lovingly. The task can cause stress to the caregiver, which in influenced by busy work factors, changes in behavior due to the childish nature and behavior of the elderly. This study aims to describe the stress level of caregivers who care for the elderly. This study uses a liteartue review design using the PEO (Population, Exprosure, Outcome) method and uses 5 articles from a darabase with electronic searches on pubmed, google scolar dan published in 2016-2021. The results of the analysis of five articles show that the data on the characteristics of te respondents are mostly female (72.83%), the age range of respondents 36-45 years is the most dominant with a persentage of (34.25%), the education of the most respondent is SMA/SMK (46.88%), the majority of respondents work (74.37%), the work stress level of the caregiver who takes care of the elderly is in the category of mild stress with a result of 117 people (46.06%). Elderly dependenvy often appears and caregivers often experince stress. Families and the elderly need to maximize their participantion in providing support to reduce stress.Keywords: elderly caregivers; informal caregiver; stress level AbstrakPopulasi lansia mengalami peningkatan yang pesat. Lansia akan mengalami beberapa perubahan baik secara fisik, fisiologis, kognitif, dan mental. Keluarga berperan penting dalam memberikan perawatan. Perawatan lansia harus dilakukan dengan teliti, sabar, dan penuh cinta. Tugas tersebut dapat menimbulkan stres pada caregiver, yang dipengaruhi faktor kesibukan bekerja, perubahan tingkah laku karena sifat dan tingkah laku lansia yang kekanak-kanakkan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui gambaran tingkat stres caregiver yang merawat lansia. Penelitian ini Menggunakan desain literature review dengan menggunakan metode PEO (Population, Exprosure, Outcome) dan menggunakan 5 artikel dari database dengan penelusuran elekrtonik pada Pubmed dan Google Scholar yang dipublikasikan pada tahun 2016-2021. Hasil analisis lima artikel menunjukkan bahwa data karakteristik responden terbanyak berjenis kelamin perempuan (72.83%), rentang usia responden 36-45 tahun paling dominan dengan persentase (34.25%), pendidikan responden terbanyak yaitu SMA/SMK (46.88%), mayoritas responden bekerja (74.37%), tingkat stres caregiver yang merawat lansia tergolong dalam kategori stres ringan dengan hasil 117 orang (46.06%). Ketergantungan lansia sering muncul dan caregiver sering mengalami stres. Keluarga dan lansia perlu memaksimalkan peran serta memberikan dukungan guna mengurangi stres.Kata kunci: Caregiver lansia; caregiver informal; tingkat stres

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