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Bara en droppe till? En kvalitativ studie kring vårdpersonalens syn på alkoholkonsumtionen bland äldre på äldreboenden

Engvall Fahlén, Isabell LU (2019) SOPA63 20181
School of Social Work
Abstract
In 2012, the Government made an amendment to the Act of alcohol, which meant an exception to the licensing of alcohol on special housing, including for elderly people. The aim of this study was to gather experiences among nursing staff about when elderly’s alcohol consumption becomes problematic and how they argue to solve a problematic situation. Although how the staff of nursing home for elderly care looks about alcohol or how consumption is today is relatively unexplored. Totally five semi-structured interviews at four different housing for elderly in three municipalities were gathered. The interview questions focused on the nursing staff’s experience of working with the elderly with assessed alcohol problems and how they could solve... (More)
In 2012, the Government made an amendment to the Act of alcohol, which meant an exception to the licensing of alcohol on special housing, including for elderly people. The aim of this study was to gather experiences among nursing staff about when elderly’s alcohol consumption becomes problematic and how they argue to solve a problematic situation. Although how the staff of nursing home for elderly care looks about alcohol or how consumption is today is relatively unexplored. Totally five semi-structured interviews at four different housing for elderly in three municipalities were gathered. The interview questions focused on the nursing staff’s experience of working with the elderly with assessed alcohol problems and how they could solve these situations. The interviews were analyzed using Scott and Lyman’s theory of account. The main findings in this study were, like previous research, that there was a lack of knowledge regarding the influence between alcohol consumption and medication, and in what way elderly people were affected by heavy drinking. It was also proved to be a difficult-balanced task for the nursing staff between on the hand of responsibility for the elderly's health and on the other hand elderly’s self-determination. This dilemma was seen as an excuse (accounts) for actions by the staff to make interventions to influence the elderly with alcohol problems, for example, by hiding the bottles in the elder’s own flat. (Less)
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author
Engvall Fahlén, Isabell LU
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organization
course
SOPA63 20181
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
elderly care, nursing home, alcohol consumption, nursing staff, accounts
language
Swedish
id
8973020
date added to LUP
2019-03-15 09:41:36
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2020-03-14 03:39:39
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  abstract     = {{In 2012, the Government made an amendment to the Act of alcohol, which meant an exception to the licensing of alcohol on special housing, including for elderly people. The aim of this study was to gather experiences among nursing staff about when elderly’s alcohol consumption becomes problematic and how they argue to solve a problematic situation. Although how the staff of nursing home for elderly care looks about alcohol or how consumption is today is relatively unexplored. Totally five semi-structured interviews at four different housing for elderly in three municipalities were gathered. The interview questions focused on the nursing staff’s experience of working with the elderly with assessed alcohol problems and how they could solve these situations. The interviews were analyzed using Scott and Lyman’s theory of account. The main findings in this study were, like previous research, that there was a lack of knowledge regarding the influence between alcohol consumption and medication, and in what way elderly people were affected by heavy drinking. It was also proved to be a difficult-balanced task for the nursing staff between on the hand of responsibility for the elderly's health and on the other hand elderly’s self-determination. This dilemma was seen as an excuse (accounts) for actions by the staff to make interventions to influence the elderly with alcohol problems, for example, by hiding the bottles in the elder’s own flat.}},
  author       = {{Engvall Fahlén, Isabell}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Bara en droppe till? En kvalitativ studie kring vårdpersonalens syn på alkoholkonsumtionen bland äldre på äldreboenden}},
  year         = {{2019}},
}