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dc.contributor.authorIsene, Tor-Arne
dc.contributor.authorHaug, Sigrid Helene Kjørven
dc.contributor.authorStifoss-Hanssen, Hans
dc.contributor.authorDanbolt, Lars Johan
dc.contributor.authorØdbehr, Liv Skomakerstuen
dc.contributor.authorThygesen, Hilde
dc.coverage.spatialNorwayen_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-08T10:03:40Z
dc.date.available2021-10-08T10:03:40Z
dc.date.created2021-09-06T15:38:33Z
dc.date.issued2021-09-01
dc.identifier.citationFrontiers in Psychology. 2021, 12 1-10.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1664-1078
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2788667
dc.description.abstractThe need for meaning in life is a key aspect of being human, and a central issue in the psychology of religion. Understanding experience of meaning for persons with severe dementia is challenging due to the impairments associated with the illness. Despite these challenges, this article argues that meaning in life is as important for a person with severe dementia as it is for everyone else. This study was conducted in a Norwegian hospital and nursing home context and was part of a research project on meaning in life for persons with severe dementia. The study builds on two other studies which focused on how meaning-making and experience of meaningfulness appeared in patients with severe dementia. By presenting the findings from these two studies for a group of healthcare professionals and introducing them to research on meaning in life, the aim of this study was to explore how healthcare professionals interpret the patients’ experience of meaning in life in practise for patients with severe dementia in a hospital and nursing home context, and to highlight its clinical implications. The study was conducted using a qualitative method with exploratory design. The data were collected at a round table conference, a method inspired by a mode of action research called “co-operative inquiry.” Altogether 27 professional healthcarers, from a variety of professions, with high competence in dementia care participated together with six researchers authoring this article. This study revealed that healthcare professionals were constantly dealing with different forms of meaning in their everyday care for people with dementia. The findings also showed clear connexions between understanding of meaning and fundamental aspects of good dementia care. Meaning corresponded well with the principles of person-centred care, and this compatibility allowed the healthcare professionals to associate meaning in life as a perspective into their work without having much prior knowledge or being familiar with the use of this perspective. The study points out that awareness of meaning in life as an integrated perspective in clinical practise will contribute to a broader and enhanced repertoire, and hence to improved dementia care. Facilitating experience of meaning calls for increased resources in personnel and competence in future dementia care.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis study was financed by Innlandet Hospital Trust, Norway, (Grant No. 150332).en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherFrontiers Mediaen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesFrontiers in Psychology;September 2021 | Volume 12 | Article 701353
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.subjectMeningsdannelseen_US
dc.subjectConstruction of senseen_US
dc.subjectDemensen_US
dc.subjectDementiaen_US
dc.subjectSevere dementiaen_US
dc.subjectPerson-centred careen_US
dc.subjectResidential careen_US
dc.subjectMeaning-makingen_US
dc.subjectMeaningfulnessen_US
dc.subjectPersonhoodsen_US
dc.titleMeaning in Life for Patients With Severe Dementia: A Qualitative Study of Healthcare Professionals' Interpretationsen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright © 2021 Isene, Kjørven Haug, Stifoss-Hanssen, Danbolt, Ødbehr and Thygesen.en_US
dc.source.articlenumber701353en_US
cristin.ispublishedtrue
cristin.fulltextoriginal
cristin.qualitycode1
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.701353
dc.identifier.cristin1931721
dc.source.journalFrontiers in Psychologyen_US
dc.source.volume12en_US
dc.source.pagenumber1-10en_US
dc.relation.projectInnlandet Hospital Trust: 150332en_US
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Sykepleievitenskap: 808en_US
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Nursing science: 808en_US


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