Intersectional perspectives on family involvement in nursing home care: rethinking relatives' position as a betweenship
- Författare
- Holmgren J, Emami A, Eriksson LE, Eriksson H.
- Titel
- Intersectional perspectives on family involvement in nursing home care: rethinking relatives' position as a betweenship
- Utgivningsår
- 2014
- Tidskrift
- Nurs Inq.
- Volym
- 21
- Häfte
- 3
- Sidor
- 227-37
- Sammanfattning
This study seeks to understand, in the context of intersectional theory, the
roles of family members in nursing home care. The unique social locus at which
each person sits is the result of the intersection of gender, status, ethnicity
and class; it is situational, shifting with the context of every encounter. A
content analysis of 15 qualitative interviews with relatives of nursing home
residents in Sweden was used to gain a perspective on the relationships between
relatives and residents, relatives and the nursing home as an institution, and
relatives and the nursing home staff. We sought to understand these relationships
in terms of gendered notions of the family and the residents, which are handed
down from generation to generation and thus condition who and how relatives
should be involved in care, and the ways in which relationships change as care
moves from home to nursing home. It requires knowledge and awareness that the
nursing home culture is based on intersectional power structures in order for
relatives to be involved in nursing home care in alternative and individual ways.