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1	God Omsorg : En studie utifrån anhörigas uppfattning om god omsorg inom demensomsorg Olsson, Ann Sofie January 2016 (has links) The purpose of this thesis is to examine how relatives experience the care in dementia homes and how they perceive the communication with the care staff. The purpose is illuminated through the following research questions: 1) What perceptions do the relatives have of good care? 2) How do the relatives perceive the care that the demented person receives? 3) How do the relatives experiencing the cooperation with the care staff? In order to answer the questions, unstructured qualitative interviews have been conducted. This method has enabled a deeper understanding of the respondents’ perspectives. The interviews have been analyzed with the help of systems theory. The study shows that the care was not as good as it could be. Most respondents expressed dissatisfaction regarding the quality of life and care for the demented person. There were also deficiencies of mental and physical character, lack of stimulation and social interaction for people with dementia. The discontent also concerned a lack of communication between the relatives and the care staff, lack of information and that the relatives had not been taken seriously and not been listened to. According to the relatives, relationships can be built up with factors such as approach, time, continuity and satisfying needs. / Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur anhöriga upplever omsorg på demensboenden samt kommunikationen med omsorgspersonal. Syftet belyses via följande frågeställningar: 1) Vad är de anhörigas uppfattning gällande god omsorg? 2) Hur upplever de anhöriga den dementes omsorg? 3) Hur upplever de anhöriga samarbetet med omsorgspersonalen? För att kunna svara på frågorna, har ostrukturerade, kvalitativa intervjuer utförts. Denna metod har möjliggjort en djupare förståelse av den intervjuade personens perspektiv. Intervjumaterialet har analyserats med hjälp av systemteori. Studien visar på att omsorgen inte var så bra som den skulle kunna vara. De flesta intervjupersoner påvisade ett missnöje gällande livskvalitet och omsorg. Det fanns även brister av psykisk och fysisk karaktär, brist på stimulans och socialt umgänge för de dementa. Missnöjet handlade även om bristande kommunikation mellan de anhöriga och omsorgspersonalen, informationsbrist samt att de anhöriga inte blivit tagna på allvar och inte blivit lyssnade på. Enligt de anhöriga, kan relationer dock byggas upp med faktorer så som bemötande, tid, kontinuitet och tillfredställande av behov. dementia relatives demented persons care demens anhöriga demensboende omsorg.
2	The allocation of spatial attention in the visual field in young adults, normal elderly and demented patients: The scanning focus model Mendez, Mario Fernando January 1991 (has links) No description available. Psychology, Experimental spatial attention visual field young adults elderly demented patients scanning focus model
3	Dreamscape and death : an analysis of three contemporary novels and a film Truter, Victoria Zea January 2014 (has links) With its focus on the relationship between dreamscape and death, this study examines the possibility of indirectly experiencing – through writing and dreaming – that which cannot be directly experienced, namely death. In considering this possibility, the thesis engages at length with Maurice Blanchot's argument that death, being irrevocably absent and therefore unknowable, is not open to presentation or representation. After explicating certain of this thinker's theories on the ambiguous nature of literary and oneiric representation, and on the forfeiture of subjective agency that occurs in the moments of writing and dreaming, the study turns to an examination of the manner in which such issues are dealt with in selected dreamscapes. With reference to David Malouf's An Imaginary Life, Alan Warner's These Demented Lands, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, and Richard Linklater's Waking Life, the thesis explores the literary and cinematic representation of human attempts to define, resist, or control death through dreaming and writing about it. Ultimately, the study concludes that such attempts are necessarily inconclusive, and that it is only ever possible to represent death as a (mis)representation. English fiction -- History and criticism Malouf, David, 1934- An imaginary life Warner, Alan -- These demented lands McCarthy, Cormac, 1933- -- Road Linklater, Richard, 1960- -- Waking Life Death in literature
4	Are We There Yet? Gay Representation in Contemporary Canadian Drama Berto, Tony 16 August 2013 (has links) This study acknowledges that historical antipathies towards gay men have marginalised their theatrical representation in the past. However, over the last century a change has occurred in the social location of gay men in Canada (from being marginalised to being included). Given these changes, questions arise as to whether staged representations of gay men are still marginalised today. Given antipathies towards homosexuality and homophobia may contribute to the how theatres determine the riskiness of productions, my investigation sought a correlation between financial risk in theatrical production and the marginalisation of gay representations on stage. Furthermore, given that gay sex itself, and its representation on stage, have been theorised as loci of antipathies to gayness, I investigate the relationship between the visibility and overtness of gay sex in a given play and the production of that play’s proximity to the mainstream. The study located four plays from across the spectrum of production conditions (from high to low financial risk) in BC. Analysis of these four plays shows general trends, not only in the plays’ constructions but also in the material conditions of their productions that indicate that gay representations become more overt, visible and sexually explicit when less financial risk was at stake. Various factors are identified – including the development of the script, the producing theatre, venue, and promotion of the production – that shape gay representation. The analysis reveals that historical theatrical practices, that have had the effect of marginalizing the representations of gays in the past, are still in place. These practices appear more prevalent the higher the financial risk of the production. / The author would like to sincerely thank Ann Wilson, Ric Knowles, Matthew Hayday, Alan Shepard, Sky Gilbert, Daniel MacIvor, Michael Lewis MacLennan, Conrad Alexandrowicz, Chris Grignard, Edward Roy, Brad Fraser, Cole J. Alvis, Jonathan Seinan, David Oiye, Clinton Walker, Sean Cummings, Darrin Hagin, and Chris Galatchian. / SSHRC, The Heather McCallum Scholarship, Lambda Prize for achievement in lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-gendered studies. Daniel MacIvor Michael Lewis MacLennan Conrad Alexandrowicz Christopher Grignard His Greatness The Shooting Stage Beggars Would Ride The Orchard Drive Gay theatre Canadian Theatre Contemporary Theatre. Mainstream theatre Alternative Theatre Queer theatre Queer Canadian Theatre Gay social location of gay men gay history Vancouver B.C. lower mainland Kelowna Fringe theatre push festival wild excursions Vancouver arts club firehall theatre staging gay sex Alan Sinfield homosexuality conditions of production conditions of reception horizon of expectation four Ds homophobia gay cultural production gay youth Tennessee Williams material conditions marginalising representations of gays
5	Uncanny modalities in post-1970s Scottish fiction : realism, disruption, tradition Syme, Neil January 2014 (has links) This thesis addresses critical conceptions of Scottish literary development in the twentieth-century which inscribe realism as both the authenticating tradition and necessary telos of modern Scottish writing. To this end I identify and explore a Scottish ‘counter-tradition’ of modern uncanny fiction. Drawing critical attention to techniques of modal disruption in the works of a number of post-1970s Scottish writers gives cause to reconsider that realist teleology while positing a range of other continuities and tensions across modern Scottish literary history. The thesis initially defines the critical context for the project, considering how realism has come to be regarded as a medium of national literary representation. I go on to explore techniques of modal disruption and uncanny in texts by five Scottish writers, contesting ways in which habitual recourse to the realist tradition has obscured important aspects of their work. Chapter One investigates Ali Smith’s reimagining of ‘the uncanny guest’. While this trope has been employed by earlier Scottish writers, Smith redesigns it as part of a wider interrogation of the hyperreal twenty-first-century. Chapter Two considers two texts by James Robertson, each of which, I argue, invokes uncanny techniques familiar to readers of James Hogg and Robert Louis Stevenson in a way intended specifically to suggest concepts of national continuity and literary inheritance. Chapter Three argues that James Kelman’s political stance necessitates modal disruption as a means of relating intimate individual experience. Re-envisaging Kelman as a writer of the uncanny makes his central assimilation into the teleology of Scottish realism untenable, complicating the way his work has been positioned in the Scottish canon. Chapter Four analyses A.L. Kennedy’s So I Am Glad, delineating a similarity in the processes of repetition which result in both uncanny effects and the phenomenon of tradition, leading to Kennedy’s identification of an uncanny dimension in the concept of national tradition itself. Chapter Five considers the work of Alan Warner, in which the uncanny appears as an unsettling sense of significance embedded within the banal everyday, reflecting an existentialism which reaches beyond the national. In this way, I argue that habitual recourse to an inscribed realist tradition tends to obscure the range, complexity and instability of the realist techniques employed by the writers at issue, demonstrating how national continuities can be productively accommodated within wider, pluralistic analytical approaches. 823

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