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Direct linkJenny Aspling; Veronica Svärd; Magnus Tideman – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2025
Background: Support from staff plays an important role in quality of life for people with intellectual disability. This study focuses on service users' views of Active Support as good support and whether Active Support increases the quality of everyday support in group homes. Method: Nine service users were interviewed at baseline and at follow-up…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Group Homes, Intellectual Disability
Henoch, Ingela; Strang, Susann; Larnebratt, Charlotte; Hermansson, Jonas – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2023
There is an increased belief in the benefits of information and communication technologies (ICT) in healthcare, but the perceived benefits of ICT in family caregiver support need to be explored. This qualitative interview study aimed to describe how family caregivers and healthcare staff in COPD care experience ICT. The results showed that both…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Family Needs, Health Personnel, Family Programs
Wastesson, Karin; Fogelberg Eriksson, Anna; Nilsson, Peter; Gustavsson, Maria – Studies in Continuing Education, 2022
Despite the number of studies confirming a high degree of unpredictability in managerial work, little is still known about how managers' workplace learning happens within organisations in such circumstances. This paper therefore aims to contribute knowledge about managers' learning in managerial practice when work is unpredictable, by…
Descriptors: Administrators, Management Development, Administrator Education, Workplace Learning
Viljoen, Marisa; Mahdi, Soheil; Griessel, David; Bölte, Sven; de Vries, Petrus J – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
Functional outcomes in autism spectrum disorder can be highly variable given the heterogeneous nature of autism spectrum disorder and its interaction with environmental factors. We set out to compare parent/caregiver perceptions of functioning in two divergent countries that participated in the International Classification of Functioning…
Descriptors: Parents, Caregivers, Parent Attitudes, Autism
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
Ingebrand, Elias; Samuelsson, Christina; Hydén, Lars-Christer – Educational Gerontology, 2021
Recent studies have demonstrated that people living with dementia, contrary to common believes, are capable of novel learning without structured interventions. Opportunities for learning throughout an individual's lifespan have been acknowledged as important factors in facilitating social participation and promoting wellbeing. However, little is…
Descriptors: Dementia, Adult Learning, Well Being, Learning Processes
Ahlström, Gerd; Wallén, Eva Flygare; Tideman, Magnus; Holmgren, Marianne – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2022
The aim of this study was to describe the social care provided for different age groups of people with intellectual disability, 55 years or above, and to investigate the association between such care and frailty factors for those with diagnosed level of intellectual disabilities. Descriptive and logistic regression analyses were used. Commonest…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Intellectual Disability, Social Services, Residential Care
Download full textAndersson, Per; Muhrman, Karolina – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2022
Context: This study is about vocational education and training for adults within municipal adult education (MAE). Sweden has a long tradition of adult education, and has one of the world's highest proportions of participants in adult education. The Swedish education system is characterised by extensive marketisation with many private actors,…
Descriptors: Marketing, Vocational Education, Adult Education, Municipalities
Rogge, Nicky; Janssen, Juliette – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2019
Autism is associated with a range of costs. This paper reviews the literature on estimating the economic costs of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). More or less 50 papers covering multiple countries (US, UK, Australia, Canada, Sweden, the Netherlands, etc.) were analysed. Six types of costs are discussed in depth: (i) medical and healthcare service…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Costs, Health Care Costs
Dag, Munir; Svanelöv, Eric; Gustafsson, Christine – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2017
This article reports on the results of a pilot study exploring whether and how the meal situations of persons with intellectual disabilities (PWIDs) in need of help and support during meal situations were affected by an eating aid. This article also analyzes how PWIDs and their assistants perceived their experiences of using an eating aid during…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Intellectual Disability, Interviews, Assistive Technology
Linertová, Renata; González-Guadarrama, Javier; Serrano-Aguilar, Pedro; Posada-De-la-Paz, Manuel; Péntek, Márta; Iskrov, Georgi; Ballester, Marta – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2019
Inclusive education of disabled students has been promoted in European disability policies. However, the transition process from more segregated system is slow. The purpose of this study was to provide an insight about different types of schooling of disabled children affected by a rare disease across Europe and to evaluate their and caregivers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Education, Inclusion, Students with Disabilities
Rennels, Jennifer L.; Juvrud, Joshua; Kayl, Andrea J.; Asperholm, Martin; Gredebäck, Gustaf; Herlitz, Agneta – Developmental Psychology, 2017
This research examined whether infants tested longitudinally at 10, 14, and 16 months of age (N = 58) showed evidence of perceptual narrowing based on face gender (better discrimination of female than male faces) and whether changes in caregiving experience longitudinally predicted changes in infants' discrimination of male faces. To test face…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Visual Discrimination, Familiarity, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
Jansson, Gunilla; Wadensjö, Cecilia; Plejert, Charlotta – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2017
Troubles-telling and complaints are common in contexts of care for older people and need to be managed by care staff in a respectful manner. This paper examines the handling of an older person's complaints in multilingual care encounters that involve participants who do not share a common language. The data consist of video-recordings and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Older Adults, Video Technology, Ethnography
Islind, Anna Sigridur; Lundh Snis, Ulrika – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2017
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to understand how the role of an mHealth artifact plays out in home care settings. An mHealth artifact, in terms of a mobile app, was tested to see how the quality of home care work practice was enhanced and changed. The research question is: In what ways does an mHealth artifact re-shape a home care practice and…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Caregivers, Older Adults, Action Research
Davis, Elise; Freeman, Ramona; Doherty, Gillian; Karlsson, Malene; Everiss, Liz; Couch, Jane; Foote, Lyn; Murray, Patricia; Modigliani, Kathy; Owen, Sue; Griffin, Sue; Friendly, Martha; McDonald, Grace; Bohanna, India; Corr, Lara; Smyth, Lisa; Morkeseth, Elisabeth Ianke; Morreaunet, Sissel; Ogi, Mari; Fukukawa, Sumi; Hinke-Rahnau, Jutta – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2012
Despite emerging evidence of the contributors to high-quality family day care, a comprehensive comparison of international family day care systems has not been undertaken. The aim of this paper is to compare regulated family day care (FDC) in Australia, Canada, England and Wales, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Norway, New Zealand, Sweden, and the USA,…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Child Care, Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education
