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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T18:47:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Lucia Marques de Souza Novo.pdf: 654891 bytes, checksum: d755981e503a95db31acb0b11f7f9d00 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-09-29 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study intends to understand how features related to elderly dementia care develop, if grounded on a Homely Gerontology Management (Gestão Gerontológica Domiciliar - GGD). Professional experience incited me to write this study on GGD s building process, within elderly dementia care organization, involving also the family, caregivers and the environment. Research was carried through in the field of private homely care, in São Paulo, along with a team of professionals responsible for the care of an elderly patient with dementia. In a qualitative approach, I employed the participant observation of the care organization, as well as a semi-structured interview with some of the team s members. The study shows that the care organization to dementia subjects yields dynamic features and demands to be constantly re-structured. GGD is part of this complex functioning group and, in this study, seven approaches are described and detailed: 1) clinic evolution s monitoring; 2) the patient s emotional and psychic suffering aspects care; 3) family orientation; 4) recruiting, selection, training and development of professionals involved in elderly care; 5) orientation and management of home employees; 6) environmental adequacy; 7) financial management. The obtained knowledge does not intend to cover all the questions in the field. However, it was presented as a possible therapeutic in care actions carried out in the private health system, and which, therefore, forces us to reflect upon the extension of such experience to the public sphere, in lack of care projects to elderly subjects in fragile situation / O estudo pretende compreender como se desenvolvem os aspectos que abrangem o cuidado no atendimento a idosos com demência, quando parte de um programa de Gestão Gerontológica Domiciliar (GGD). A experiência profissional incitou-me a escrever este estudo sobre o processo de construção da GGD, na organização do cuidado a idosos com demência, familiares, cuidadores envolvidos e o ambiente. A pesquisa foi feita no campo da assistência domiciliar privada, na cidade de São Paulo, com uma equipe de profissionais envolvidos no cuidado a uma idosa com demência. Em abordagem qualitativa, utilizei a observação participante da organização do cuidado e entrevista semi-estruturada com alguns membros da equipe. O estudo constatou que a organização do cuidado nas situações demenciais tem caráter dinâmico e requer constante reestruturação. A GGD faz parte desse grupo de atuação complexa e, nesta pesquisa, estão descritas e detalhadas sete frentes: 1) acompanhamento da evolução clínica; 2) cuidados com os aspectos emocionais e o sofrimento psíquico do paciente; 3) orientação familiar; 4) recrutamento, seleção, treinamento e desenvolvimento dos profissionais envolvidos no atendimento ao idoso; 5) orientação e administração de funcionários domésticos; 6) adequação ambiental; 7) administração financeira. O conhecimento adquirido não pretende ser proposta que abrange a totalidade dos fatores desse cenário. No entanto, apresentou-se como terapêutica possível nas ações de cuidado que ocorrem no sistema privado, e que, consequentemente, nos leva a refletir sobre a extensão da experiência à esfera pública, que tem carência de planos de atendimento aos idosos em situação de fragilidade

Syfte: Syftet med studien är att få en inblick i hur färgtemperaturen kan påverka personers trivsel i bostadsområden. Detta är för att få en förståelse om hur ljusets färgtemperatur påverkar personers trivsel, positiva eller negativa effekter och vilka skillnader som syns med det olika färgtemperaturerna. Metod: Två metoder användes i studien. Ett frågeformulär skapades med 8 självtagna bilder med tillhörande frågor. Efter att deltagarna svarat på enkäten, genomfördes intervjuer med fem deltagare som valdes ut genom hur det svarade på frågorna och fick utveckla sina svar. Resultat: Resultaten visar att det finns en skillnad mellan varmt och kallt ljus, i hur det påverkar trivseln. Hur det påverkar trivseln beror dock på vad deltagare anser själva är en trivsam belysning. Ur frågeformulär var det en stor variation av deltagare som kopplade låg färgtemperatur till komfort och hemlik atmosfär. Högre färgtemperaturer kopplades mer till trygghet och modernt ljus. Ur intervjuer visade resultatet att fler deltagare föredrar lägre färgtemperatur i bostadsområden, då det känns mer behagligt och mer passande. Färre antal föredrog högre färgtemperaturer och kopplade det till att det lyser upp mer av omgivningen och blev mer följsamt för ögat. Deltagare kopplade mycket till omgivningen då bilderna visade olika områden. Mycket hus, bilar, belysning ifrån hus och grönskan bidrog mycket till att deltagare valde bilderna och kopplade det till hus ljuset spred sig i omgivningen.  Konsekvenser: Studien ger kunskap om färgtemperaturens roll för utomhusbelysning och vikten av den. Detta gynnar boende och gående inom bostadsområden. Genom att veta vilken färgtemperatur som föredras, kan belysning projekteras och planerare kan skapa den belysning som befolkningen anser är nödvändig och trivs bäst med.  Begränsningar: Studien är begränsad till att undersöka endast färgtemperatur i bostadsområden. Intervjuer genomfördes på distans i digital plattform, med hänsyn till rådande situation av covid-19. / Purpose: The purpose of the study is to gain an insight into how colour temperature can affect people's well-being in residential areas. This is to gain an understanding of how the colour temperature of light can affect well-being, whether it affects positively or negatively, if there are differences and in what way it differs. Method: Two methods were used in the study. A questionnaire was created, with 8 self-taken pictures with additional questions. After the participants responded to the questionnaire, interviews were conducted with five participants who were choose by how they answered and were allowed to develop their answers. Findings: The question asked had a broad answer. The results show that there is a difference between low and high colour temperature, how it affects well-being. However, how it affects well-being depends on what the participants consider to be a pleasant lighting. From the questionnaire, there was a large variety of participants who linked low colour temperature to comfort and homely atmosphere. Higher colour temperatures were linked more to security and modern light. From interviews, the results showed that more participants prefer lower colour temperature in residential areas, as it feels more comfortable and more appropriate. Fewer numbers preferred higher colour temperatures and linked it to the fact that it lit up more of the surroundings and became more compliant to the eye. Participants connected a lot to the surroundings as the pictures showed different residential areas. The pictures included a lot of houses, cars, lighting from houses and greenery, which contributed a lot to participants choosing the pictures and linking it to how the light spread in the surroundings. Implications: Conducting a study entails knowledge within the role of colour temperature for outdoor lighting and the importance of having it. This benefits residents and pedestrians in residential areas, by knowing which colour temperature is preferred, lighting can be projected, and planners can create the lighting that the population considers necessary and are most comfortable with. Limitations: The study has mainly focused on the colour temperature in residential area. Interviews were conducted remotely on a digital platform, considering the prevailing situation of covid-19.

Thesis (MA (English Studies))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Drawing on theories of gender and subjectivity, this thesis explores the way in which constructions of modernity as well as tradition are mapped onto geographical localities and thus expressed through gender acts. The female protagonists in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior, Sindiwe Magona’s To My Children’s Children and Forced to Grow, as well as Eva Hoffman’s Lost in Translation undergo either transnational translocation or imagined translocation where they straddle multiple cultural contexts concurrently. The role of globalism and modernity amplifies the female’s ambiguous position and therefore challenges her gender identity as she takes on additional gender characteristics. This challenge, a result of translocation, causes both the individual and collective nature of the subject to be emphasised and placed in multiple cultures concurrently. The female’s subjectivity is under much tension as the cultures she immerses herself in interlace but also clash. As a result of this, her sense of self is constantly in flux as she attempts to achieve stability and coherence. This sense of a gendered, stable and located self will, I argue, both dissipate and transmutate upon undergoing physical or imagined translocation. In addition, this thesis examines the manner in which globalism allows for the dissolving of boundaries and explores the extent to which the ambiguous position these female protagonists occupy enables them to reformulate and refashion their gender identity as well as write themselves away from the marginalised positions they inhabit. I will further explore how female subjects are compelled to take on additional feminine or masculine attributes upon translocation, seeming to become androgynous in the reformulation of their gender identity for a certain period of time. I will argue that protagonists supplement their gender in order to obtain a sense of belonging in a specific cultural context which requires this alteration of gender, and argue that this is also a means by which they liberate themselves from the marginal positions they occupy in their ethnic culture where sexism and prejudice are prevalent. However, I will demonstrate that modernity does not only provide them with liberation and autonomy, but that simultaneously it is also restrictive on the subject’s gender identity. Finally, this thesis explores whether the female protagonists are able to use their ambiguous positioning strategically in order to generate coherence of the self yet, concurrently, maintain fluidity between multiple cultural boundaries of the self. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie verhandeling gebruik geslags- en subjektiwiteitsteorieë om ondersoek in te stel na die maniere waarop konstruksies van moderniteit en tradisie uiting vind in geslagshandeling. Dieselfde teorieë word gebruik om ondersoek in te stel na die invloed van geografiese plasing op geslagshandeling. Die vroulike protagoniste in Maxine Hong Kingston se The Woman Warrior, Sindiwe Magona se To My Children’s Children en Forced to Grow, sowel as Eva Hoffman se Lost in Translation, ervaar elkeen óf transnasionale translokasie, óf verbeelde translokasie, waardeur hulle vele kulturele kontekste tegelykertyd in die dwarste beset. Die rol van globalisering en moderniteit versterk sonder twyfel die vroulike protagonis se dubbelsinnige posisie, en haar geslagsidentiteit word in twyfel getrek soos sy addisionele geslagseienskappe aanneem. Hierdie vertwyfeling – die gevolg van translokasie – veroorsaak dat beide die kollektiewe sowel as die individuele aard van die subjek benadruk word, en gelyktydig in meervoudige kulture geplaas word. Die protagonis se subjektiwiteit verkeer onder baie spanning omdat die kulture waarin sy haarself verdiep onderling vervleg is, maar tog ook bots. Derhalwe is haar beskouing van haarself voortdurend vloeibaar en veranderend terwyl sy probeer om samehorigheid en stabiliteit te bewerkstellig. Ek is van mening dat hierdie sin van 'n “geslaghebbende”, stabiele, gelokaliseerde self verdwyn en/of transmuteer wanneer dit fisiese of verbeelde translokasie ondergaan. Gevolglik ondersoek hierdie verhandeling dus ook die manier waarop globalisme die ontbinding van grense tot gevolg het, sowel as die mate waartoe die dubbelsinnigheid van die vroulike protagoniste se posisie hulle toelaat om hul geslagsidentiteit te herformuleer en te herontwerp, en hulself weg, of uit, die gemarginaliseerde posisies wat hulle beset te skryf. Ek wil ook kyk na die maniere waarop die vroulike subjek genoop is om, as gevolg van translokasie, addisionele vroulike of manlike karaktertrekke aan te neem, met dié dat dit blyk dat die protagoniste vir 'n ruk lank androgene eienskappe in hul geslagsidentiteit toon. Ek argumenteer dat die protagoniste hul geslag aanvul, nie net sodat hul aanklank binne 'n spesifieke kulturele konteks kan vind nie, maar ook as 'n manier waarop hul hulself kan bevry van die marginale posisies waarin hulle hul in 'n etniese kultuur, waar seksisme en vooroordeel gedy, bevind. Nietemin wil ek ook aantoon dat moderniteit nie bloot net bevryding en selfstandigheid aan die vroulike protagoniste bied nie, maar dat dit ook tegelykertyd beperkings op die subjek se geslagsidentiteit plaas. Die uitkoms van hierdie tesis is om te bepaal of die vroulike protagoniste in staat is tot die strategiese gebruik van hul dubbelsinnige posisionering, wat koherensie van die self sal meebring, en tog terselfdertyd vloeibaarheid tussen verskillende kulture sal behou.