School of Social Work, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Int J Qual Stud Health Well-being. 2024 Dec;19(1):2371538. doi: 10.1080/17482631.2024.2371538. Epub 2024 Jun 24.
Care has been theorized as a relational practice, but the research has focused on providers rather than users. Older care users have been cast in a passive role, and their relational activities to help with the provision of their care or to support those who provide it are underexplored. The purpose of this study is to develop knowledge about home care use as a form of relational 'work'.
The data for the study consists of 34 qualitative interviews with home care users in Sweden and 15 observations of care provision. The data has been coded using thematic analysis.
The analysis identifies two overlapping forms of relational work done by care users in the home care context: care-centred work, where care users work to facilitate care situations that were positive for staff and for the provision of care; and person-centred work, where care users work to foster personal relations by focusing on care staff as unique individuals.
The article proposes a research programme on relational work by care users, prompted by the finding that such efforts seem central for the understanding of eldercare in a variety of contexts.
关怀被理论化为一种关系实践，但研究主要集中在提供者身上，而不是使用者身上。年长的护理使用者被赋予了被动的角色，他们为帮助提供护理或支持提供护理的人而进行的关系活动尚未得到充分探索。本研究的目的是增进对家庭护理使用作为一种关系“工作”形式的了解。
本研究的数据来自瑞典的 34 名家庭护理使用者的定性访谈和 15 次护理提供观察。数据使用主题分析进行编码。
分析确定了家庭护理背景下护理使用者所做的两种重叠形式的关系工作：以关怀为中心的工作，护理使用者通过努力促进对工作人员和护理提供有利的关怀情况；以人为中心的工作，护理使用者通过关注护理人员作为独特的个体，努力培养人际关系。
本文提出了一个关于护理使用者关系工作的研究计划，这是基于这样一种发现，即这种努力似乎是理解各种背景下老年护理的核心。
