Uppsatsen kretsar kring diskussionen om dementa personers rättsliga ställning i deras kontakt med vård och omsorg. Det allmänna har en skyldighet att skydda utsatta individer och ge dem möjlighet att leva ett värdigt liv. Samtidigt är ett centralt värde att vård och omsorg ska bedrivas med respekt för människors självbestämmande och integritet. Den enskildes delaktighet vid utformandet och genomföThe essay revolves around the discussion about the legal status of people with dementia in their contact with health care and social services. The public has a duty to protect vulnerable individuals and give them an opportunity to live a dignified life. Meanwhile, a core value is that services in the health field should be conducted with respect for people’s autonomy and integrity. The individual’

This paper examins attitudes towards harm reduction within focus on supervised injection site measures in Sweden. Through investigating the senitments of current social work students at Lund University, the paper concludes that despite the countries overall effort to combat substance abuse, the coming generation of social workes is largely positive to public supervised injection centers. The stud

The purpose of the study is to examine how probation officers reason about the execution of community service. The material used in this study consist of interviews conducted with highly experienced probation officers. The material was analyzed with a qualitative analysis method. The account theory in combination with the concept of discretion are the theories used. The result indicate that the re

The aim of this study was to examine how the social workers working process looks like in Financial assistance with focus on the child’s perspective. I was interested to explore how social worker who works in financial assistance takes to account the child’s perspective. In order to gather the data I used a qualitative method. Five social workers were interviewed on a unit for financial assistance

The aim of this study was to describe and analyze the social work that took place with unaccompanied children autumn 2015. I have taken a qualitative approach to answer the questions in this study. The study is based on five interviews with social workers and staff, working in homes with unaccompanied minors. Two main themes are discussed and these themes are: The effects of migration of unaccompa

The aim of this study was to analyze how preschool principals talk about their obligation to report child maltreatment to social services. Five principals, from five different local areas, were interviewed in the study. Two of the preschools were situated in underprivileged areas, and the others in economically and socially fairly well situated areas. Discourse analysis was applied in the examinat

This study investigates how children’s books in Sweden deal with the topic of death and how it relates to research and established theories on children’s development and their grieving process. Based on a qualitative text analysis of 20 books five themes were identified: “clarity and euphemisms of death”, “the afterlife”, “boys and girls different expressions of grief”, “funeral as an instruction

The aim of the thesis is to investigate constructions of mental illness in course literature used in a Bachelor’s programme in social work. The empirical material consists of books and reports about mental illness used within a programme. The material has been analyzed through a qualitative method called perspective analysis, drawing upon discourse analysis. Our analysis shows that there are eleme

Titel: Urlakning av betong med elektrisk migration och frysning under tvång Författare: Kristoffer Karlsson Handledare: Katja Fridh, Avdelningen för Byggnadsmaterial, Lunds Tekniska Högskola, Lund Extern handledare: Per Mårtensson, Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB, Stockholm Examinator: Lars Wadsö, Avdelningen för Byggnadsmaterial, Lunds Tekniska Högskola Problembeskrivning: Den dagen då Slutförvar

För många innebär datorspel att kliva in i den fiktiva värld som spelet skapar och på så vis undgå verkligenheten. I forskningssammanhang är det precis tvärtom, då är datorspel eller mikrovärldar som det också kallas ett sätt att simulera verkligheten. I detta examensarbete har möjligheten att använda datorspel för studier inom riskhanteringsområdet undersökts. Då det tidigare inte fanns någon miIt has been shown that it can be difficult to study decision making in a risk management context when traditional methods are used. An alternative to traditional methods is to use micro worlds. A certain type of decision making in the risk management context is about investments in capability which has been studied in this thesis. The aim of the project is divided into two parts, where the first p

Abstract Author: Joakim Hammarstrand Title: “I need to meet them where they are” - a qualitative interview study about Swedish school counselors work with young transgender people. Supervisor: Malinda Andersson Assessor: Anders Östnäs The aim of this study was to examine how school counselors in Sweden work with gender variance. The study also aims to examine and understand the school counselor’

This study aims to examine the participants of the project “Jämställda platser Malmö” and their definition of what gender equality is, the aim is further to examine, according to the participants, what the definition of an equal place is. The participants of the project were a group of youth from three different areas in Malmö where the equal places were intended to be built on. The group of youth

The aim of this study was to examine what kind of experience social workers in the voluntary sector has of the health amongst asylum seekers in the asylum process. The aim has also been to construe the social workers statement due to a sense of coherence. The analysis was based on the theories of the salutogenesis and the sense of coherence by Antonovsky. The interviews were based on qualitative i

The aim of this qualitative field study was to investigate and analyse Samburu men’s perspective on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) in Samburu, Kenya. The chosen subjects to examine were the men’s perspective of the practice of FGM/C itself, the process of change of mind and their involvement in ending FGM/C. To achieve this aim, in-depth interviews were made with 10 men in the surroundi

In Swedish youth- and adolescent residential care and juvenile care, there are today people held for either being a threat to themselves, their surroundings or have committed a crime yet are too young to be held in prison. There are also youth and adolescents being placed in these facilities when their surroundings too have become a threat to their own wellbeing. The aim for this study was to find

A methodology as well as a suggested solution to the problem of unsupervised anomaly detection for contextual anomalies is presented. Using a combination of statistical and clustering approaches, an ensemble of algorithms provide automatic anomaly detection in an Application-to-person networking environment which can be scaled to different domains using hierarchical time series data. The aim of

The purpose with this study was to describe and analyze the hospital church function and importance in hospital care and its relation to the hospital counselor work. This study will also present the division of labor between the hospital church and hospital counselors. It will also examine the relationship between the hospital church and hospital curators and if there is a difference in the hospit

Bakgrund. Det är vanligt att äldre personer lider av flera hälsoproblem och funktionsnedsättningar som kan ha påverkan på deras livskvalitet. Livskvalitet är en subjektiv upplevelse som skiljer sig från person till person. Livskvalitet kan påverkas av individens fysiska hälsa och psykologiska tillstånd, grad av oberoende och sociala förhållanden. Syftet med studien var att jämföra livskvalitet hos

Sweden is often predicted to become the first cash-free society in the world. The digital possibilities for payments are increasing and payments are now made easily using just a mobile phone. One of the possible reasons for this is the way people choose to and want to pay. Another possible reason is that the state is not guaranteeing the possibility to use cash as a payment method. The Swedish par

Är det möjligt för konsumenter att vara förändringen man vill se i samhället, och därmed bidra till en hållbarare framtid? Med hjälp av en modell baserad på Multi-Regional Input-Output (MRIO) analys undersöks den miljömässiga potentialen av olika livsstilar i EU. Europeiska hushålls fotavtryck för koldioxid, toxicitet, vatten och land beräknas för olika konsumtionsmönster. Modellen som används innIs it possible for the EU consumer to ‘Be the Change’ and set society on a more sustainable pathway by a change of lifestyle? Using a Multi-Regional Input-Output (MRIO) model this research investigates the environmental impact reduction potential of different lifestyles in the EU, for footprints of carbon, toxicity, water, and land. 12 lifestyles are found that offer significant reduction potentia