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Fanny Alexandra Jakobsen,1 Kjersti Vik,1 Borgunn Ytterhus21Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; 2Department of Public Health and Nursing, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, NorwayBackground: A shift in the work-divide among generations and an ageing population have altered the balance of care and support between families and welfare states. Although state policy has increasingly acknowledged that older adults ageing in place receive support from family members, how adult children perceive their collaboration with their parents and health care professionals in reablement services remains unclear. The aim of this study is to identify how adult children perceive the collaboration between older parents, family members, and health care professionals in reablement services.Methods: This study has a qualitative research design with a constructivist grounded theory approach. In total, 15 adult children – 6 sons, 8 daughters, and a daughter-in-law, aged 47–64 years – whose parents had received reablement services, participated in in-depth interviews.Results: Our findings clarify how children and their older parents’ reablement services can collaborate to support how the adult children manage and maintain both their own and their parents’ everyday lives. The core category derived from our data analysis was the art of maintaining everyday life, with four subcategories indicating the different dimensions of that process: doing what is best for one’s parents, negotiating the dilemmas of everyday life, managing parents’ reablement, and ensuring the flow of everyday life.Conclusion: To promote collaboration among older adults, their children, and health care professionals in reablement, health care professionals need to proactively involve older adults’ family members in the reablement processes, particularly because older adults and their children do not always express all of their care-related needs to reablement services.Keywords: rehabilitation, informal care, primary care, social need, grounded theory, next of kin

BACKGROUND: Although there is a broad political consensus in Norway that the government should uphold the principles of "full employment" and "work for all", the majority of people with intellectual disabilities in Norway spend their days in segregated work arrangements or at day activity centres. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the current study was to explore what constitutes work and work roles for people with intellectual disabilities and severely limited verbal communication abilities who attend a day activity centre. METHOD: A qualitative ethnographic research design was adopted, and the data were gathered through observing the participants and through conducting conversational interviews with the staff members and the participants with intellectual disabilities. Data were analysed with a hermeneutic approach. RESULTS: The findings showed that even though participants with intellectual disabilities engaged in specific work roles at the day activity centre, these work roles did not constitute work as it is ordinarily conceptualised and valued in society. CONCLUSION: Despite the very real enjoyment that the participants derive from participating in organised occupation, the work that they do has little status or value, and the activity centre itself is not a satisfactory workplace for people with intellectual disabilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This manuscript suggests a methodology to recognize the most vulnerable welding procedure specifications (WPSs) that contribute to the majority of defective welds annually. Based on the identified WPSs, it also suggests a methodology to recognize the most critical imperfection groups and the related imperfection sub-groups as specified in NS-EN ISO 6520-1. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Aims: This study examines experiences from the implementation of EPDS as a routine screening for postnatal depression in a health centre seen from health visitors' perspective. Methods: A qualitative approach was chosen to shed light on this issue. Six experienced health visitors and one midwife participated in a focus group interview sharing their experiences and expectations. Results: The analysis indicate that the EPDS screening turned out to be a useful tool for the health visitors to adress mental health issues in health promotion and preventive work with mothers and newborns. The EPDS screening shifted the focus in the consultation from the child solely to also encompass the mother and the relation between them. A precondition for this was that the implementation process was gradual and on the health visitors own terms, likewise that there was a follow-up chain including supervision given to the health visitors, in order to provide help for the mothers who need more help than the health centre can offer. Conclusions: Our study shows that acceptability for routine screening with EPDS amongst health visitors is possible to achieve. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose. The purpose of the present study was to explore and describe how older adults who received home-based rehabilitation perceived the staff during a period of 6 months when they received rehabilitation. Specifically, the study focused on how the participants collaborated with and made use of the services from the staff. Method. In this case-oriented study, three older adults were interviewed continuously during the 6-month period they received home-based rehabilitation. The interviews were analysed continuously using a grounded theory approach. Results. Five different modes of perceiving the staff were identified among the participants: as small talk persons, as discussions partners, as instructors and advisors, as teachers and as persons who carry out tasks efficiently. The three conditions that most came to influence the way the participants perceived collaborated with the staff were as follows: 'experience and encounters with the staff', 'expectations for the future daily life', and 'the participants' needs and tasks related to their disability'. Conclusions. To achieve collaboration and user involvement, the staffs have to encounter each client differently in accordance with the various tasks that must be carried out during rehabilitation. Our findings indicate that this is particularly important for older adults during home-based rehabilitation, since older adults often have changing needs because of comorbidity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study was to identify how older adults perceive environmental factors to have an influence on their participation after receiving home-based rehabilitation services. The respondents were older adults of more than 65 years of age who had received home-based rehabilitation. The questionnaire Measurement of the Quality of the Environment (MQE) was used to gather the data. The results showed that, in this population of older adults, many environmental factors were perceived as do not apply or to lack influence. Factors that were perceived as facilitators for the respondent's participation came under the categories social network, social and healthcare services and commercial services, and physical environments such as the presence of technical aids within the respondents' homes. Few environmental factors were identified as barriers to participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]