ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2021
Breaking Up and a New Beginning When One's Partner Goes into a Nursing Home: An Interview Study.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- How Do Spouses Experience Living Alone After Their Partner With Dementia Moves Into a Care Home?Journal of clinical nursing · 2025Pooled it
- Experience of Conjugality Among Older People in Long-Term Care Facilities: A Scoping Review.Journal of applied gerontology : the official journal of the Southern Gerontological Society · 2026Article
- Current state and future directions of health services and service management research on transitions in older age: a field-focused narrative review.BMC health services research · 2026Review
- End-of-life care at home: Dignity of family caregivers.Nursing ethics · 2025Article
- Caring and Health of Close Family Members of Frail Older Persons Recently Discharged from Acute Hospital Care: A Comparative Cross-Sectional Study.Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy) · 2024Article
- Paid caregivers' experiences of falls prevention and care in China's senior care facilities: A phenomenological study.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Building a new life: a qualitative study of how family carers deal with significant changes.BMC geriatrics · 2022Article
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Abstract
In aging societies worldwide, spouses take on great responsibility for care when their partner continues to live at home. Nursing home placement occurs when the partner becomes too frail due to multimorbidity, and this will cause a change in the spouse's life. This study aimed to explore the spouse's experience of their partner's move to a nursing home. Two interviews were conducted at 9-month intervals within the project entitled "Implementation of Knowledge-Based Palliative Care in Nursing Homes". Thirteen spouses from both urban and rural areas were included, with an age-range of 60-86 years (median 72). Qualitative content analysis was performed. The main findings were captured in two themes: Breaking up of close coexistence and Towards a new form of daily life. The first encompassed processing loneliness, separation and grief, exhaustion, increased burden, and a sense of guilt. The second encompassed a sense of freedom, relief, acceptance, support and comfort. Professionals in both home care and nursing home care need to develop and provide a support programme conveying knowledge of the transition process to prevent poor quality of life and depression among the spouses. Such a programme should be adaptable to individual needs and should ideally be drawn up in consultation with both partners.
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