Bakgrund: Varje år behöver 70 000–75 000 människor palliativ vård, varav de flesta har en cancersjukdom. Närstående har en viktig och central del i palliativ vård och kan påverka den drabbades mående innebär att lindra symtom och lidande där fokus inte ligger på att bota sjukdomen. Sjuksköterskan har en viktig roll att stötta och involvera närstående i kommunikationen.  Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva närståendes upplevelser av att vårda en anhörig med cancer i livets slutskede i hemmet.   Metod: Metoden som valdes var en litteraturöversikt. Tio vetenskapliga artiklar inkluderades i resultatet. Artiklarna analyserades enligt Fribergs metod. Resultatartiklarna hade kvalitativ design och hämtades från CINAHL Complete och MEDLINE.   Resultat: Litteraturöversikten presenterades i tre teman och fem underteman. Det första temat innefattar att bli en vårdare, med undertemat ansvar att ständigt vara på vakt. Det andra temat innefattar känslor av vårdandet, med underteman stress och tiden nära döden. Det sista temat innefattar behov av stöd, med underteman stöd från familj och vänner, stöd från hälso-sjukvården.   Slutsats: Resultatet visade att närstående kände ett ansvar av att vårda sin anhörig, detta ansvar medförde bland annat att tunga beslut låg i deras händer angående anhörigas autonomi. Ansvaret bidrog även med negativa effekter både psykiskt och fysiskt i form av utmattning. Förberedelser inför döden visade sig vara en viktig del för närståendes mentala hälsa samt att stöd från familj, vänner och vårdpersonal framkom som betydelsefullt. / Background: Every year, 70 000–75 000 people need palliative care, most of them have cancer. Relatives have an important and central part in palliative care and can affect the victim's mood. Palliative care involves relieving symptoms and suffering where the focus is not on curing the disease. The nurse has an important role to support and involve relatives in the communication. Autonomy is seen as a difficult ethical dilemma in palliative care as the sufferer may have difficulty being self-determined in the final stages of life.   Aim: The purpose was to describe relatives' experiences of caring for a relative with cancer in the final stages of life at home.  Method: The chosen method was a literature review linked to Friberg. Ten scientific articles were included in the results. The articles were analyzed according to Friberg's method. The result articles had a qualitative design and were taken from CINAHL Complete and MEDLINE.   Results: The literature review was presented in three themes and five sub-themes. The first theme includes becoming a caregiver, with the sub-theme responsibility to be constantly on guard. The second theme includes emotions of care, with the sub-theme of stress, the time close to death. The last theme includes need for support, with the sub-theme support from family and friends, support from health care.   Conclusion: The results showed that close relatives felt a responsibility to care for their relatives, this responsibility meant, among other things, that heavy decisions were in their hands regarding the relatives' autonomy. The responsibility also contributed with negative effects both mentally and physically in the form of exhaustion. Preparations for death proved to be an important part of the mental health of close relatives and that support from family, friends and care staff emerged as meaningful.

Le transfert des parents est considéré à Lubumbashi comme une manifestation des solidarités familiales. Cependant, l’échange des parents n’est pas extensif comme le véhicule les discours sur la solidarité. L’hébergement est électif et s’exerce en fonction de certaines modalités. Je constate que les conjoints rendent prioritairement les bienfaits aux parents qui les avaient aidés dans le parcours de leur vie. Cette logique contredit les discours sur la spontanéité et la gratuité d’entraide. Elle s’inscrit par contre dans le principe du don et contre-don. <p>Aussi, la valorisation excessive de la solidarité cache plusieurs récriminations dans le vécu des ménages. En privé, les conjoints ne tarissent pas des dénonciations contre l’hébergement des parents. Certains informateurs disent que l’insertion est une charge supplémentaire (ni charge). Ils déplorent également des violences verbales et physiques dont sont victimes les parents hébergés et les conjoints. D’autres, décrient les frustrations conjugales. L’exiguïté du logement et le confinement des parents font que les conjoints n’ont presque pas d’espace intime. Les solutions au logement des parents sont trouvées dans la promiscuité. Pour leurs rapports sexuels, les conjoints recourent à plusieurs tactiques de dissimulation. De même, la proximité des parents de sexe opposé occasionne des rapports sexuels interdits par la coutume. Je relève aussi entre les conjoints des pratiques d’entraide souterraine qui posent la question des limites entre la moralité et l’immoralité dans l’assistance des proches parents/ The transfer of parents is considered to Lubumbashi as a manifestation of family solidarity. However, the exchange of the parents is not as extensive vehicle discourse on solidarity. Accommodation is elective and is exercised in accordance with certain rules. I find that spouses make priority benefits to parents who had helped in the course of their lives. This contradicts the logic of speech spontaneity and free support. It fits in with against the principle of gift-giving and cons.<p>Also, the excessive value of solidarity hides many recriminations lived in households. In private, spouses are full of denunciations against hosting parents. Some informants say that integration is an additional charge (or charges). They also complained of verbal and physical abuse suffered by parents and spouses hosted. Others decry the marital frustrations. The cramped housing and containment of parents do that spouses have almost no private space. Solutions to the housing Parents are found in promiscuity. Their sex, spouses use several tactics of concealment. Similarly, the proximity of the parents of the opposite sex causes sex forbidden by custom. I would also between spouses practices support underground raise the question of boundaries between morality and immorality in assisting relatives.<p> <p><p> / Doctorat en Sciences politiques et sociales / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Text in Afrikaans / Indigenous literature about the experience of a couple, where one of the spouses experiences a spinal cord injury, is scarce in the frame of social work. The experience of 5 couples (10 participants), after a spinal cord injury of one of the spouses was researched in this qualitative study. The aim of this research study is: • to reconnoiter participants’ experience of a spinal cord injury of a spouse, through semi-structured interviews with a purposeful chosen sample • to subject the research findings to a literature control • to make recommendations about how spouses can support each other, as well as how professional people can support client systems, where one of the spouses experience a spinal cord injury From the data it was determined that a spinal cord injury had significantly influenced the couples: - emotions - needs - perceptions (origination of experiences) Recommendations to couples as well as to professional people have been made. / Social Work / Thesis (M. Diac.)

Text in Afrikaans / Indigenous literature about the experience of a couple, where one of the spouses experiences a spinal cord injury, is scarce in the frame of social work. The experience of 5 couples (10 participants), after a spinal cord injury of one of the spouses was researched in this qualitative study. The aim of this research study is: • to reconnoiter participants’ experience of a spinal cord injury of a spouse, through semi-structured interviews with a purposeful chosen sample • to subject the research findings to a literature control • to make recommendations about how spouses can support each other, as well as how professional people can support client systems, where one of the spouses experience a spinal cord injury From the data it was determined that a spinal cord injury had significantly influenced the couples: - emotions - needs - perceptions (origination of experiences) Recommendations to couples as well as to professional people have been made. / Social Work / Thesis (M. Diac.)