Summary information
Study title
Elderly Care Worker Perceptions of Elderly Persons Living at Home
Creator
Salonen, Kari (Turku University of Applied Sciences. Faculty of Well-being Services. Degree Programme of Social Services)
Study number / PID
FSD2388 (FSD)
urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD2388 (URN)
10.60686/t-fsd2388 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Individual datasets that do not belong to any series.
Abstract
The study charted the elderly care outpatient workers' views on the social aspects of elderly people living at home. 36 female workers were interviewed. The respondents were 25-59 years old social workers, specially trained nurses, nurses, home help service instructors, home aides, home helpers, and practical nurses. The interviews explored five themes: the perceptions of sociality, the construction of sociality in old age, the relationship between social interaction and environment, sociality from elderly care's viewpoint, and the significance of living at home. The whole dataset contains 739 pages, and the length of a single interview ranges from 17 to 28 pages. The dataset is only available in Finnish.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
17/05/2005 - 26/09/2005
Country
Finland
Time dimension
Cross-section
Analysis unit
Individual
Universe
Elderly care outpatient workers
Sampling procedure
Non-probability: Purposive
Kind of data
Qualitative
Data collection mode
Face-to-face interview
Access
Publisher
Finnish Social Science Data Archive
Publication year
2009
Terms of data access
The dataset is (B) available for research, teaching and study.
Related publications
- Salonen, Kari (2007). Haastava sosiaalinen vanhustyössä - avopalvelutyöntekijöiden näkemyksiä kotona asuvien vanhusten sosiaalisesta olomuotoisuudesta. Turku: Turun ammattikorkeakoulu. Turun ammattikorkeakoulun tutkimuksia; 26.
- Lindgren, Johanna (2019) Koti, vanhuus ja toimijuus. Sisällönanalyysi hoivatyöntekijöiden haastatteluista. Kandidaatin tutkielma. Sosiologia. Tampere: Tampereen yliopisto.