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Health promotion initiative: A dementia-friendly local community in Sweden
- Source :
- Dementia (London, England)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2020.
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Abstract
- Dementia is a great public health concern worldwide. Despite this, little is known from a health-promoting perspective about dementia in general as a public health issue, in dialog with people living with dementia, applicable at individual, group, and societal levels with regard to policies and practice. This study therefore aims to explore the experiences related to living with dementia in the local community by advancing a health-promoting perspective. Semi-structured individual and group interviews were conducted with participants (n = 22) with lived, professional, and personal experiences of dementia living in a medium-sized municipality in Sweden. Transcripts were analyzed by thematic analysis. Four themes emerged: health promotion through knowledge and public awareness, health promotion through opportunities to be active, health promotion through meaningful meeting places, and health promotion through improvements in the welfare system. We found that more knowledge and public awareness about dementia are needed to advance a health-promoting perspective and increase the prominence of dementia as a public health issue. Further research and policy need to focus more on how professionals in dementia care practice could be involved in promoting health and well-being for people with dementia. Funding agency: Norrköping Municipality Research and Development Fund(Norrköpings fond för forskning och utveckling) (NK KS 2016/0407)
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Sociology and Political Science
health promotion
Nursing
qualitative interviews
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
mental disorders
medicine
Humans
Dementia
awareness
030212 general & internal medicine
Dialog box
Qualitative Research
Sweden
030214 geriatrics
dementia-friendly community
Omvårdnad
Public health
public health
Perspective (graphical)
General Social Sciences
Articles
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Local community
Health promotion
Personal experience
experiences
Thematic analysis
Psychology
dementia
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17412684 and 14713012
- Volume :
- 20
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Dementia
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....959dfefac5c248533235dde98191724a