Essays about: "Informal care"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 60 essays containing the words Informal care.
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1. Dealing With The Unexpected in Prehospital Patientcare: The Lived Experience Of EMS Clinicians
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och SamhällssäkerhetAbstract : Background In prehospital patient care, numerous patients are examined, treated, and transported. Some are acutely seriously ill, while others, though not acutely ill, necessitate ambulance transport due to their inability to do so independently. Among the latter group, patients may be sicker than initially estimated. READ MORE
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2. Family caregivers experience of end-of-life carefor persons with dementia : A descriptive literature review
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för vårdvetenskapAbstract : Background: Dementia is a disease that causes significant cognitive decline and canaffect occupational, life and social functioning. As the disease worsens and symptoms ofpersons with dementia(PwD) become more severe, some end-of-life stage PwD chooseto spend their time at home, which means that the family caregivers become the mainsupport body for the PwD. READ MORE
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3. City of the Dead - “We are neither living nor dying, we are something in between”
University essay from KTH/Samhällsplanering och miljöAbstract : “We are neither living nor dying, we are something in between” Since the beginning of history, the living and the dead have been separated. This has made it almost im- possible to co-live together under one roof. We, ‘the living’, have even created “deathscapes” which have set a clear boundary between us and them, ‘the dead’. READ MORE
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4. Female paid domestic work in Lima : A contemporary case study on informality and changed forms of emploment
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Nordiska LatinamerikainstitutetAbstract : The objective of this thesis on the paid feminized domestic work is to describe the two current forms of employment of the live-inside maids and the live-outside domestic workers of paid domestic work in Lima Peru. The live-inside employment, cama adentro is the traditional form of maids living inside the household, and secondly, the live-outside employment, cama afuera, describes the working woman as an independent worker who lives outside the household. READ MORE
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5. Mai Mamma: An exploratory qualitative case study of Apulian mothers' perception of childcare
University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : In Italy, ideas surrounding family and motherhood seem to be unveiled as myths rather than values. Despite the historical prominence of these notions within the national political and social agenda, the country's support to families and predominantly female caregivers remains severely inadequate. READ MORE
