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Cancer in home care. Unintended weight loss and ethical challanges. A cross-sectional study of older people at 11 sites in Europe.
(Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics;Preprint, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2010-06-17)The aim of this study was to compare unintended weight loss in cancer patients to other elderly. Home care users, aged 65 from urban areas at 11 sites in Europe (N = 4010) were assessed with the Resident Assessment ... -
Carbapenem‐resistant enterobacteriaceae—implications for treating acute leukemias, a subgroup of hematological malignancies
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Acute leukemias (AL) are a group of aggressive malignant diseases associated with a high degree of morbidity and mortality. Patients with AL are highly susceptible to infectious diseases due to the disease itself, factors ... -
Care farming for people with dementia; what can healthcare leaders learn from this innovative care concept?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)There is growing recognition that traditional dementia care models fall short for people with dementia and their family caregivers. This has led to a call for new dementia care approaches. In response to this call, innovations ... -
Care in Practice. On Normativity, Concepts, and Boundaries.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)In recent years many STS scholars have dealt with care practices in different fields. Starting from Care in Practice. On Tinkering in Clinics, Homes and Farms [Transcript-Verlag, Bielefield, 2010, 325 pp.], a book edited ... -
Care of the dying – The last health service Diakonhjemmet hospital, 1897-2017 (Oslo, Norway)
(Lecture, 2020)We studied death and dying in a 130 years period using RAI-LTCF retrospectively. At start, the doctors had few diagnostic aids. The standard of living and medical development gradually increased. Age 80+ at death, changed ... -
Care practices at the intersection between resistance and involuntary treatment and care.A mixed-methods study of how health care professionals approach resistance to care and involuntary treatment among home-dwelling persons with dementia
(Dissertation Series for the Degree of Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) at VID Specialized University; no. 40, Doctoral thesis, 2022)Bakgrunn: Antall hjemmeboende personer med demens vil øke de kommende årene. De fleste personer med demens blir etterhvert avhengig av assistanse og støtte for å kunne bo hjemme. Økt behov for hjelp er assosiert med motstand ... -
Carer involvement in the assessment of personal recovery: A naturalistic study of assertive community treatment in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Background: The user and carer movements have come a long way in becoming embedded in mainstream mental health services for individuals with serious mental illness. However, implementing recovery-oriented practice continues ... -
Caritas and Diakonia as Perspectives on the Diaconate
(Ministry of the Deacon. Ecclesiological Explorations / edited by Gunnel Borgegård, Olav Fanuelsen & Christine Hall;2, Chapter, 2000) -
A case study from a nursing home : Lack of human touch
(Journal article, 2021)This article illustrates how the corona pandemic affected the residents' quality of life in a nursing home setting. Neither the politicians nor the health care staff had experiences with pandemics. News from China suggested ... -
Catching values in flight: A process perspective on researching values in organisations. Kap. 10
(Chapter, 2020)Values are often hardly visible and taken for granted in organisations, leaving us with the question of how to study them. An emerging stream of studies on values work utilises a process approach to research values, work ... -
Causes of misunderstandings in intercultural communication : with empirical illustrations from conversations between Norwegian public officers and Oromo refugees in the Southern Rogaland, Norway
(Master thesis, 2009-09-04)The aim of this thesis is to discuss misunderstandings in intercultural communication. As human communication is based on learned traits, cultural backgrounds are taken as important factors to understand why people communicate ... -
Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis in traumatic brain injury: A systematic review of its complications, effect on mortality, diagnostic and therapeutic management, and follow-up
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Objective: Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) is increasingly being recognized in the setting of traumatic brain injury (TBI), but its effect on TBI patients and its management remains uncertain. Here, we systematically ... -
CFS/ME OG AKTIVITETSAVPASNING En litteraturstudie om mennesker med CFS/ME sine opplevelser av aktivitetsavpasning (pacing)
(Bachelor thesis, 2022-05)Problemstilling: “Hvordan oppleves aktivitetsavpasning (Pacing) som en mestringsstrategi for personer med mild-moderat CFS/ME?”. Formål: Formålet med denne oppgaven er å undersøke hva forskning sier om pasienter med ... -
Challenges for diakonia in the contemporary norwegian society
(Journal article, 2015)Diaconal actions are always conditioned and challenged by concrete contexts, and all contexts are multifaceted and require an interdisciplinary approach. This article describes challenges for diakonia in the contemporary ... -
Challenges in Implementation of Inclusive Education in Malawi: A Case Study of Montfort Special Needs Education College and Selected Primary Schools in Blantyre
(Master thesis, 2016-04-15)The present study explored the challenges faced in the implementation of inclusive education in Malawi. The study was constructed within Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory. The theory maintains that children grow, ... -
Challenges to Equality in the Welfare State: The Norwegian Case of Drammen
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)Integration of ethnic and cultural minorities and social equality are two important goals in Norwegian public policies. The school system is a major institution for inculcating values and identities and for developing ... -
"The challenges will remain": Systemic work with families of children needing extra care. Chapter 8
(Chapter, 2023)This chapter describes a variety of systemic practices with families with children that need extra care and where these family and child challenges will probably remain in some way or another. Work with families where ... -
Changes in Psychological Distress in Five Groups of Welfare State Service Workers over a Nine-Year Period
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Health and social care workers are exposed to varying degrees of stress in their work, which may be reflected in their trajectories of psychological distress during the education program and the first years in the job. The ... -
The Changes in the Parental Leave Policy in Norway 2018/2019 Policy Discourse and Gender Equality
(Master thesis, 2020-05)A new parental leave policy was implemented in Norway in 2018. The total parental leave period was divided into three equal parts, giving fathers a historically large paternity quota. The implementation was based on arguments ...