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Inna Feldman; Mihretab Gebreslassie; Filipa Sampaio; Camilla Nystrand; Richard Ssegonja – Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 2021
To review the literature on economic evaluations of public health interventions targeting prevention of mental health problems and suicide, to support evidence based societal resource allocation. A systematic review of economic evaluations within mental health and suicide prevention was conducted including studies published between January 2000…
Descriptors: Schools, Employment, Nursing Homes, Foreign Countries
Lotta Dellve; Robin Jonsson; Rebecka Arman; Nanna Gillberg; Ewa Wikström – Learning Organization, 2025
Purpose: This study aims to explore whether participation in employer-provided skills and learning programs can strengthen older workers' abilities to carry out their work in a meaningful way so that it increases work attractiveness and a willingness to remain in the current job position. Design/methodology/approach: A survey was distributed to…
Descriptors: Organizational Learning, Labor Turnover, Labor Demands, Labor Problems
Ellström, Eva; Ellström, Per-Erik – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore what learning-oriented leadership could mean in practice and to identify possible sources of variability in this leadership between first-line managers (FLMs). The empirical basis of the study comprised FLMs in nursing homes for elderly care. Design/methodology/approach: The study was carried out…
Descriptors: Leadership, Workplace Learning, Administrators, Administrator Role
Karlsson, Anna-Malin; Nikolaidou, Zoe – Written Communication, 2016
This article reports on research addressing the role of incident reporting at the workplace as a textual representation of lean management techniques. It draws on text and discourse analysis as well as on ethnographic data, including interviews, recorded interaction, and observations, from two projects on workplace literacy in Sweden: a study in…
Descriptors: Manufacturing Industry, Ethnography, Writing Research, Caregivers
Hauer, Esther; Westerberg, Kristina; Nordlund, Annika M. – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2017
Awareness of the mechanisms underlying training and development (T&D) programmes is crucial in creating sustainable learning conditions in organisations. The organisational and psychosocial aspects of the work environment in Swedish elderly care is the focus of this longitudinal study, and the relation between process and results of a T&D…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Work Environment, Foreign Countries, Sustainability
Jansson, Gunilla – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2014
The present case study demonstrates how the multilingual practices of a linguistically diverse workforce contribute to the functioning of a modern workplace. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and recordings in a residential home for elderly people with dementia in Sweden, the article explores how multilingual immigrant care workers creatively use…
Descriptors: Barriers, Multilingualism, Empathy, Efficiency
Fejes, A.; Nicoll, K. – Studies in Continuing Education, 2011
Relatively little attention has been paid to questions of how language acts in and through the interactions of language in situations where people are encouraged to learn to be active in contexts of work. This paper argues that detailed analysis is needed to understand how activation through language acts in the shaping and governing of workers.…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Older Adults, Nursing Homes, Interpersonal Communication
Fejes, Andreas – Studies in Continuing Education, 2010
In the last couple of decades, there has been a shift from speaking about employment to speaking about employability. The interest in this article is directed at how discourses on employability are mobilised in the wider discursive terrain of governance. How does governance operate, what subject is produced and, more specifically, who is…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Lifelong Learning, Discourse Analysis, Nursing Homes

Asplund, Kenneth; Norberg, Astrid – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1993
Caregivers (n=158) from Swedish nursing home rated severely demented person as painful, apathetic, suffering, weak, afraid, sad, cold, dark, rough, and ugly. Four years later, comparable group of 93 caregivers answered revised questionnaire. Results were nearly identical to first administration. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Caregivers, Foreign Countries, Mental Disorders

Samuelsson, Gillis; Sundstrom, Gerdt – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1988
Statistics on place of death, validated against longitudinal evidence on entrance into nursing homes, shows the "final" rate of institutionalization to have risen in Sweden between 1938 and 1975. Issues concerning who is institutionalized and why appear more important than precise measurement of rates of institutionalization. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Death, Foreign Countries, Institutionalized Persons, Nursing Homes

Berg, Stig; And Others – Gerontologist, 1988
Discusses the Swedish experience in which the official old-age care policy has been to substitute home care for institutional care. Found some substitution of the two forms of long-term care which took place from 1965-75, but thereafter the use of long-term care institutions and home care remained stable or contracted. (Author/ABL)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Home Programs, Institutionalized Persons, Nursing Homes

Svensson, Torbjorn – Gerontologist, 1984
Discusses gerontological research, including research based on present trends in Swedish society. Data on the Swedish population and legislation are also presented. (Author)
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Foreign Countries, Gerontology, National Programs
Grunewald, Karl – 1969
The aims and principles of normalization and integration of the mentally retarded in Sweden are discussed in terms of implications for services and programs. The historical background of the present care for the mentally handicapped notes legislative actions, responsibilities of the Board of Provisions and County Councils, the development of the…
Descriptors: Day Care, Etiology, Exceptional Child Services, Facilities

Cates, Norman – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 1993
Notes that Denmark and Sweden have achieved reduction in institutionalization of elderly individuals by increasing home care and housing with services and adaptation. Describes innovative model of nursing home care in Denmark--a self-care model that fosters independent living and decision making as long as possible. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Community Services, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Foreign Countries, Frail Elderly