Äldres alkoholproblem-Vems ansvar? : En kvalitativ studie om hemtjänstpersonalens arbete med äldres alkoholproblem
(2018) SOPA63 20172School of Social Work
- Abstract
- Elderly alcohol problems- whose responsibility? – A qualitative study of home care workers and elderly with alcohol problems
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate what home care staff think promotes beneficial care for elderly, who is living in their ordinary home and has a problem with alcohol. This study explore which difficulties the staff endure during their work with this group and how they think the collaboration with other professionals, who also is working with this group, operate. These professionals can be health care staff, care administrators and people working with addiction treatment. To collect data for this study semi-structured interviews has been made with four home care staff from two different... (More) - Elderly alcohol problems- whose responsibility? – A qualitative study of home care workers and elderly with alcohol problems
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate what home care staff think promotes beneficial care for elderly, who is living in their ordinary home and has a problem with alcohol. This study explore which difficulties the staff endure during their work with this group and how they think the collaboration with other professionals, who also is working with this group, operate. These professionals can be health care staff, care administrators and people working with addiction treatment. To collect data for this study semi-structured interviews has been made with four home care staff from two different workgroups in a local district in south-east Skåne. To analyze the result two theories has been used: Skau’s (2007) theory about the power relationship between a client and a helper and Lipsky’s (2010) theory about the street- level bureaucrat. The conclusions made was that it takes a trustful relationship between the home care staff and the client to get the client to accept help. To create this relationship it crucial that the home care staff can confirm the client’s feelings and that the staff shows an understanding of the client’s perspective. To motivate the client to get help the home care staff can used it’s power position, although in the end the staff can not force the client to accept help. The client’s autonomy is more important. Other conclusions made is that the collaboration between the home care staff and for example the people working with addiction treatment is inadequate. This creates difficulties for the home care staff to give the client’s the best help due to their confined knowledge about addiction. This limits the home care staff’s discretion and they need to rely on their own knowledge and what they think is best help for the a client. (Less)
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- Persson, Elin LU
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- organization
- course
- SOPA63 20172
- year
- 2018
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- elderly, alcohol abuse, alcohol-related disorders, alcohol using.
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 8933128
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abstract = {{Elderly alcohol problems- whose responsibility? – A qualitative study of home care workers and elderly with alcohol problems
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate what home care staff think promotes beneficial care for elderly, who is living in their ordinary home and has a problem with alcohol. This study explore which difficulties the staff endure during their work with this group and how they think the collaboration with other professionals, who also is working with this group, operate. These professionals can be health care staff, care administrators and people working with addiction treatment. To collect data for this study semi-structured interviews has been made with four home care staff from two different workgroups in a local district in south-east Skåne. To analyze the result two theories has been used: Skau’s (2007) theory about the power relationship between a client and a helper and Lipsky’s (2010) theory about the street- level bureaucrat. The conclusions made was that it takes a trustful relationship between the home care staff and the client to get the client to accept help. To create this relationship it crucial that the home care staff can confirm the client’s feelings and that the staff shows an understanding of the client’s perspective. To motivate the client to get help the home care staff can used it’s power position, although in the end the staff can not force the client to accept help. The client’s autonomy is more important. Other conclusions made is that the collaboration between the home care staff and for example the people working with addiction treatment is inadequate. This creates difficulties for the home care staff to give the client’s the best help due to their confined knowledge about addiction. This limits the home care staff’s discretion and they need to rely on their own knowledge and what they think is best help for the a client.}},
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