”…det fina finns liksom kvar.” : En kvalitativ studie om hur vårdpersonal på särskilt boende uppmärksammar tecken på gerotranscendens.

Sammanfattning: The aim of this study was to investigate whether or not nursing staff working in a care home notice and, if they do, how they interpret signs of gerotranscendence in the residents and how they approach the residents that exhibited those signs. The study was conducted with qualitative semi-structured interviews with nursing staff active in a Swedish care home.  The theoretical approach was hermeneutic and the study was conducted due to the author’s view that the current research on gerotranscendence is sparse. The conclusion of this study is that the nursing staff were able to notice some signs connected to gerotranscendence in the residents but not all. Notification and interpretation of the signs were varied and residents were approached differently by the nursing staff due to the nursing staff’s varying theoretical and working background.