Disputas- Master i sosiologi Kristin Synnøve Voie

Avhandlingen er tilgjengelig her!  The doctoral thesis! Prøveforelesning holdes kl. 09.15, samme sted:  “Reviewing negative narratives of ageing and ageing populations to advance health systems development”. Prøveforelsesningen strømmes her/The trail lecture will be streamed here. Disputasen starter 11.15. Auditoriet er åpent for publikum. Disputasen vil strømmes her, og et opptak vil være tilgjengelig i et døgn. The auditorium is open to the public. The defense will still be streamed, and a recording of the disputation will be available for 24 hours.

Populærvitenskapelig sammendrag av avhandlingen:

Many older adults live alone, receive home care and experience frailty, which in this thesis is considered a subjective, relational and dynamic experience. Through exploring continuity and change in the everyday lives of older adults living with frailty, as well as how older adults and home care professionals navigate frailty, the overarching aim of this thesis is to create spaces for broader and more inclusive master narratives about ageing and frailty.

Empirical data generated through focus group discussions with home care professionals, and individual interviews with older adults, each of whom was interviewed three times at four-month intervals, were analyzed using thematic analysis, combined with narrative positioning analysis.

Through the lens of a life course perspective, the results of this thesis challenge the ideas that frailty cannot also involve strength, that older adults’ stories are mainly about the past, and that ageing is either about success or decline. In home care, storytelling can provide insight into older adults’ various experiences of frailty, strengths and vulnerabilities.

Hovedveileder
Førsteamanuensis Kjersti Sunde Mæhre, Institutt for helse og omsorgsfag, UiT Norges arktiske universitet. 

Biveileder
Margrethe Kristiansen, UiT.

Bedømmelseskomité
Dosent Marie Ernsth Bravell, Institutet för gerontologi, Jönköping University – 1. opponent.
Dosent Fredrik Snellman, Department of Social Work, Umeå University – 2. opponent.
Filip Maric, Institutt for helse og omsorgsfag, UiT Norges arktiske universitet – leder av komité.

Disputasleder: Førsteamanuensis Hilde Laholt, Institutt for helse og omsorgsfag, Det helsevitenskapelige fakultet, UiT Norges arktiske universitet.