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Family's role in long‐term care : A qualitative study of Finnish family members' experiences on supporting the functional ability of an older relative
2022
Family members are important providers of care for older people. In residential long-term care, however, their role is not always simple and straightforward: responsibility for care provision rests officially with staff members, but in practice family members often contribute to providing care. The main reason for admission to long-term care is functional decline. At the same time, the maintenance of functional ability is a central goal in long-term care. It is therefore reasonable to assume that functional ability is also an important factor in the relationship between family members and long-term care residents. This study aims to explore how family members experience their role in suppor…
Towards Ethical Guidelines of Using Telepresence Robots in Residential Care
2021
AbstractRobotic telepresence is a potential technology to help alleviating the loneliness of elderly people. The impacts of long-term use of telepresence robots in residential care are not well known. We were interested in how using a telepresence robot influences the resident, family members and care workers at a facility, and what challenges and solutions there are for wider adoption of such robots in residential care. With a telepresence robot Double, we arranged a series of three trials in two separate residential care facilities: one 12-week trial in a private facility and two successive 6-week trials in a public facility. In each trial, we installed the telepresence robot in a room of…
Time to care? Temporal variations of agency of the Finnish adult foster carers.
2020
This article analyses a hybrid form of housing and care service for older people called adult foster care. In Finnish adult foster care model, an older person moves to a foster care home and is cared for by a semi-professional foster carer who is not related to them. A foster care home is thus simultaneously a personal dwelling and a site of intensive care work which also changes the rhythms and routines of both the foster carer and older person. In the article I ask, how do foster carers express their temporal agency and its variations (identity, pragmatic, life course) through time work? By temporal agency I mean individuals' ability to impact on their experience of time, which is done th…
Kuinka tavoittaa hoivakodin henki? : valokuvaelisitaatio tutkimusmetodina
2014
Laitoksissa ja palvelukodeissa asuvien vanhusten tutkimista kyselyjen ja haastattelujen avulla pidetään pulmallisena, koska asukkaat ovat informantteina tietyssä mielessä marginaalinen ihmisryhmä. Tässä yhteydessä marginaalinen tarkoittaa, että he ovat usein hyvin hauraita toimintakyvyltään. Heidän on esimerkiksi aistitoimintojen rajoitteiden ja sairauksien vuoksi hankala osallistua tutkimuksiin. Heidän äänensä ei ole tullut riittävästi kuulluksi palvelujen käyttäjinä ja tutkimustulokset ovat siten jääneet siltä osin melko laihoiksi. (Koskela 2010; Outinen 1999.) Ratkaisuna on ehdotettu teknisten ja monimutkaisten laatumittausten rinnalle aistivaraisen laadun käsitettä ja siihen niveltyviä …