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Volume 3
Advanced Practices in Nursing
ISSN: 2573-0347
Advanced Nursing Research 2018
June 14-15, 2018
June 14-15, 2018 | Dublin, Ireland
48
th
World Congress on
Advanced Nursing Research
Person-centeredness in elder care: A secondary analysis of data from a study among home-dwelling
men and women in the Faroe Islands
Ása Róin
University of the Faroe Islands, Faroe Islands
Aim & Objectives:
As individuals in Western society’s age, there is increasing demand for home-based care to help older
people stay in their homes for as long as possible. A person-centred approach to care has been recommended in the literature.
However, person-centredness as a concept is an often quoted, but ill-defined concept. This qualitative study investigates how
older people’s experiences with home-care reflect a person-centred approach to care. Data derive from an earlier study on
ageing among home-dwelling men and women who are aged 67 to 91 and living in the Faroe Islands.
Methods:
The study is a secondary analysis of data from an earlier qualitative study. Latent thematic analysis was used which
meant coding issues of potential interest and collecting these codes into themes.
Results:
Three themes appeared to combine the initial codes: sense of involvement, sense of meaningfulness and contextual
conditions. Overall, the analysis showed that the users were seldom involved in planning or scheduling the care they received.
What they were offered did not always make sense to them or correspond to their needs or preferences.
Conclusion:
Findings from this study point at some possible barriers to successful implementation of person-centredness
within elder care. Especially contextual conditions seem to limit the facilitation of person-centred practices.
Biography
Ása Róin is an Assistant Professor at the University of the Faroe Islands, Department of Health and Nursing Science, Faroe Islands.
asar@setur.foÁsa Róin, Adv Practice Nurs 2018, Volume 3
DOI: 10.4172/2573-0347-C2-020