By 2020, the coronavirus has spread worldwide and is classified as a pandemic. The purpose of thisstudy has been to, through the perspective of home care assistants, examine the significance of thesocial isolation that the Covid-19 pandemic has meant for older people regarding their mental health.It has thus been about the home care assistants' experiences of the elderly's strategies for dealing withthe recommended social isolation. The study was conducted by using a qualitative research methodthrough semi-structured interviews with home care assistants, who work with elderly people living intheir home. A thematic analysis of the collected material was made and four themes emerged from thecoding. The results showed that the home care assistants experienced a deteriorating mental healthduring the Covid-19 pandemic of the elderly people. This was shown, for example, in the form ofincreased anxiety and sleeping disorders. Furthermore the results showed how the elderly people usedtheir resilience to handle how the virus was affecting their every-day life. Also the result showed theimportance of social stimulation and activity among the elderly and that home care assistants have animportant role for some eldelry who have a limited social life.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:su-189822 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Neihoff, Erika, Henriksson, Varja |
| Publisher | Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för socialt arbete, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för 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 |
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