The aim of this study was to understand how care managers in elderly care relate to self-determination when encountering older people with dementia. The study was conducted through qualitative interviews with a hermeneutic approach. We interviewed eight care managers experienced in working with older people with dementia. While interviewing we used a semi-structured interview guide. The material from the interviews were then analyzed through a hermeneutic circle and then theoretically analyzed by the use of Kant’s duty ethics, Bentham’s consequence ethics (normative ethics) and Foucault’s definition of power. Our main conclusions were that older people's self-determination is important and a legal right that clarifies that the power shall lie with the older person. Self-determination is, despite being a legal right, difficult to interpret in practice when it comes to older people with dementia. Depending on which ethical duty care managers lean on and what consequences that might bring, the decisions may differ. Sometimes older people's self-determination is unconditional, but sometimes the municipality’s final responsibility for older people is more authorized than older person's right to self-determination. Power within the relationship between care managers and older people with dementia is dynamic and care managers sometimes have to use their power in order to prevent danger. Our conclusion is that care managers find it difficult motivating departures from self-determination, since there is no coercive in Swedish legislation towards older people with dementia. Self-determination is therefore difficult to handle and requires well-balanced assessments, sometimes on the verge of what is considered as coercive.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-69884 |
| Date | January 2018 |
| Creators | Türkkan, Yeliz, Kindberg, Caroline |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA), Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för socialt arbete (SA) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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