The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine how family members perceive family support, and to gain a deeper understanding of how the relatives' part is affected by the dementia ill person. The result has been produced by semi-structured interviews with five respondents interviewed individually. The respondents who participated in the study, care for the dementia sufferer husband / wife at home, or the husband / wife has moved to a special housing. The result includes the perception of being a relative of a person with dementia, how they experience support from various parties, if there are any differences between men and women as well as the importance of communication and attitude. Overall it was shown that relatives often felt a sense of security and that they were satisfied with the support they received from the various parties. Communications and treatment were considered an important part in meeting with the professional people, if this would not have worked problems would probably emerge in the different situations.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:oru-23750 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Nyberg, Sandra, Varbäck, Angelina |
| Publisher | Örebro universitet, Institutionen för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för juridik, psykologi och socialt arbete |
| 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 |
| Relation | Örebro Studies in Social work, 1651-145X |
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