Background: When moving to a nursing home, the new resident also meets a new kind of culture, including communal, shared meals. Gaining greater insight into the resident experience of mealtimes in nursing homes is essential to identify the meaning that mealtime situations have and highlight the potential barriers and facilitators to the implementation of mealtime situations that create wellbeing for residents. The aim of this integrative review was therefore to shed light on mealtime situations in nursing homes from the residents’ perspective. Methods: The literature search was performed using a combination of MeSH keywords and free text terms in ASSIA, CINAHL, PsycInfo, PubMed, and Web of Science. After scrutinizing the articles and quality checks, 13 articles were chosen. The analysis was performed following Whittemore and Knafl’s instructions for integrative reviews. Results: The experiences of the mealtime situations were partly connected to residents’ personhood and partly to the nursing home’s organization of the mealtimes. Three main categories emerged: mealtimes as a source of well-being in nursing home life, mealtimes (re)creating continuity in life and preserving identity, and mealtimes as a balancing act between autonomy and need of support. Residents in nursing homes want the possibility to choose both what to eat, with whom they will eat and where they eat. The mealtimes in nursing homes and how they are constructed have an important role in residents’ feelings of having control over their life situation and can also strengthen residents’ identity and autonomy. Conclusion: Staff needs to be aware of the meaning of mealtimes to promote person-centered care in regard to meals. Further research is needed to explore how different mealtime situations have an impact on nursing home residents’ lives as well as on the care the staff gives. 

The Theatre of the Dining Table – Glass for All Senses The theatre of the dining table is a performance about life and death. Unless we eat and drink, we die, which is why meals have great symbolic and sensual significance and are important in all cultures as expressions of community, power, and desire. At the table we communicate our identity. Through our choice of dishes, drinks, table decorations, and guests, we show who we are and who we would like to be – at small intimate meals and grand feasts alike. Inspired by the cultural history of the set table and the choreography of the meal itself, our project explores their potential today. The exhibition demonstrates encounters between nature and culture. Some of the objects are inspired by the environment and display the function of natural phenomena in the formation of cultural values. We have worked with a number of key concepts: toasting, tasting, decorating, conversing and collecting. These are words that describe aspects of the meal. They offer us an open framework in which our works of art can emerge and develop.  

Måltidens teater är en föreställning på liv och död. Om vi inte äter och dricker så dör vi, därför har måltider stor symbolisk och sinnlig betydelse och är viktiga i alla kulturer som uttryck för gemenskap, makt och lust. Vid måltiden kommunicerar vi identitet. Genom våra val av rätter, drycker, bordets objekt och eventuella gäster visar vi vilka vi är och vilka vi skulle vilja vara, både vid den lilla måltiden och de stora kalasen. Med inspiration från måltidens kulturhistoria och design för det dukade bordet visualiserar vi i vårt projekt måltidskultur och det smyckade bordet som idé. I utställningen visar vi möten mellan natur och kultur. Somliga objekt är inspirerade av naturfenomen och naturen runt omkring oss, det är en grundton till de kulturella värdena. Vi har arbetat med ledord som beskriver händelser och aktiviteter vid måltiden, det har skapat öppenhet och gett oss frihet att skapa våra personliga glaskonstverk.

In the context of long-term care facilities, mealtime situations have been linked to residents’ health and well-being. The optimisation of mealtime situations is dependent on multiple aspects and is complex. To better understand this complexity, this qualitative study aimed to identify staffs’ beliefs about the values of mealtime situations for residents’ health and well-being and to explore the facilitators of, barriers to, and challenges and actions in accomplishing and upholding these values. The results demonstrated that staffs’ belief consisted of achieving social and relational values, vitality values, self-strengthening values and atmospheric values. During mealtimes, participating staff had to constantly balance these values in relation to mealtime situational preconditions and residents’ individual and communal needs. Experienced facilitators, challenges, barriers and actions could be traced to and explained by identified beliefs, implying that knowledge regarding beliefs about values could be helpful for understanding and managing the complexity inherent in the mealtime situation.

År 2023 firades Lunds domkyrkas 900-årsjubileum. Då installerades ett nytt konstglasfönster av Erika Lagerbielke, kallat Hopp, i domkyrkans krypta. Ingen permanent konstnärlig installation hade gjorts i kryptan sedan 1500-talet. Händelsens unika karaktär och rummets dignitet väckte idén att dokumentera och analysera verket och kontexten. Fönstret blev fokuspunkt för en undersökning av den konstnärliga processen, av glasmåleriets historia och sammanhang, av ljusets teologi och rummets fenomenologi.

År 2023 firades Lunds domkyrkas 900-årsjubileum. Då installerades ett nytt konstglasfönster av Erika Lagerbielke, kallat Hopp, i domkyrkans krypta. Ingen permanent konstnärlig installation hade gjorts i kryptan sedan 1500-talet. Händelsens unika karaktär och rummets dignitet väckte idén att dokumentera och analysera verket och kontexten. Fönstret blev fokuspunkt för en undersökning av den konstnärliga processen, av glasmåleriets historia och sammanhang, av ljusets teologi och rummets fenomenologi.

Mealtimes are important events in care homes for physical and social well-being. However, residents usually have little input concerning meal timings, what food is offered, and how it is served. This integrative review explored mealtime interventions and their outcomes in care homes related to the Five Aspects Meal Model (FAMM). Research articles published 2010–2021 were searched for in ASSIA, CINAHL, PsycINFO, PubMed, and SveMed+ and resulted in 13 articles focusing on interventions. The analysis was based on the aspects of FAMM: room, meeting, product, management control system, and atmosphere. The result shows that even though interventions specifically focused on one aspect, they often evaluated outcomes related to several aspects. Different aspects can work together to foster effective mealtimes. FAMM eased to visualise the usefulness of mealtime interventions from a broad perspective and can be a useful tool for assessing and improving mealtime situations in clinical practice.

Recent findings show traces of glassmaking in Sweden in the 5th century CE. Monastic notes suggest that Cistercianmonks were making window glass during the 12th century. From 1556 glassmakers were established inSweden, producing artifacts and window glass, primarily for the royal court. They were recruited from glassmakingcenters such as Venice and Bohemia, bringing inherited, tacit knowledge from their home countries.Eventually craftspeople developed different means to support their creative processes. Books with patterns, includingone example printed in 1699, were produced for the trade and spread internationally. A Swedish domesticglass industry slowly started to emerge during the 18th century, a product of socioeconomic development.An implementation of artistic design processes took place in the early years of the 20th century. Internationalmobility can be seen as a key factor to the development of Swedish glass manufacturing, initially in the migrationof skilled craftspeople bringing their knowledge to Sweden, and later as an international exchange of value-basedideas that provided the content for the design-driven product development of the early 20th century.