Influencing Everyday Activities in a Nursing Home Setting: A Call for Ethical and Responsive Engagement

Overview

Journal Nurs Inq

Publisher Wiley

Specialty Nursing

Date 2017 Aug 2

PMID 28762593

Citations 9

Authors

Margarita Mondaca

Staffan Josephsson

Arlene Katz

Lena Rosenberg

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Abstract

This study focuses on influence that older adults, living in nursing homes, have over everyday activities. Everyday activities are key to sustain a sense of stability, predictability, and enjoyment in the local world of people's everyday and therefore a critical dimension of the person-centeredness framework applied within gerontology. This narrative ethnographic study aimed to shed light on how influence can be situated contextually, and how it can emerge through activities as well as how it is negotiated in everyday by frail older adults living in a nursing home. Residents, staff members, and significant others from one nursing home in an urban area of Sweden participated in this study. Data were gathered through fieldwork, including participant observation and formal and informal conversations during a period of 6 months. Data were analyzed through a narrative interpretative approach. The findings are presented in narrative form as exemplars. The exemplars-Craquelures as justification, Seeking a place for other life worlds and An almost perfect trip-reveal a gap between the client-centeredness framework and lived experiences regarding older adults' influence in everyday activities. The role of everyday activities in the context of frailty is discussed in terms of ethical and responsive engagement, and implications for health-care practices are considered.

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