Open this publication in new window or tab >>2018 (English)In: Nursing Forum, ISSN 0029-6473, Vol. 53, no 3, p. 383-391Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
1 Aim
To explore the concept of home and its' expressed spatialities in current palliative care research.
2 Background
Home is a central environment for living, caring, and dying. However, pure investigations of the sets of ideas linked to the concept seemed missing. Although identified as an important location, spatial perspectives expressed through the concept of home appeared unexplored.
3 Design
Rodgers' evolutionary concept analysis.
4 Data sources
Scientific articles published between January 2009 and September 2015.
5 Review methods
Rodgers' evolutionary concept analysis. Resulting attributes were explored from two geographically informed spatial perspectives.
6 Results
As main results, six attributes were identified and explored: Home as actor—capable of acting; emotional environment—something people have feelings for; place—a part of personal identity and a location; space—complex and relational spatial connections and a site for care; setting—passive background and absolute space; becoming—a fluid spatiality constantly folded. Examples of attributes and suggestions for further concept development were identified.
7 Conclusions
The concept reflects various sets of ideas as well as expressing both relational and absolute perspectives of space. The most challenging for nursing research and practice seems to be investigation, operationalization, and testing the implementation of sets of ideas reflecting a relational thinking of space.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
John Wiley & Sons, 2018
Keywords
home, nursing, palliative care research, Rodgers' evolutionary concept analysis, space
National Category
Nursing
Research subject
Health and Caring Sciences, Nursing
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-78775 (URN)10.1111/nuf.12257 (DOI)000445762700015 ()29687445 (PubMedID)2-s2.0-85045846909 (Scopus ID)
2018-11-122018-11-122019-08-29Bibliographically approved