Easing stress in residential care with older people

Having a troubled conscience is stressful. This kind of stress seriously influences care providers ability to offer good care. So it’s important to take measures to address, and relieve but preferably prevent this kind of stress.

We did our participatory action research in the context of  residential care for older people. We found that using a shared problem processing approach was fruitful for relieving care providers’ burden of stress. It also helped increase quality of care.

Our finding is that it is crucial to build a fruitful dialogue between the researchers, the carers and the residents of the care facility. Turns out that the participatory action research  model we introduced was easy for carers to adapt both as a problem-solving process in clinical practice and for nursing research.

We describe our experiences and discuss them in relation to relevant literature and theory.

  • Abstract on behalf of Eva Ericson-Lidman and Gunilla Strandberg

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