JOURNAL PRESENTATION

Presented by
D Jagadeswari
M.Sc. (N) I Year Student
College of Nursing
Madras Medical College
 CITATION

• This article is taken from the journal, International Journal of

Nursing Studies, 24 November 2022

• The authors of the study are Kristiina Toivonen, Andreas

Charalambous, Riitta Suhonen .

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 TITLE

A caring and living environment that supports the spirituality of

older people with dementia: A hermeneutic phenomenological

study

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 INTRODUCTION

Meeting spiritual needs is an important part of the quality of nursing for

older people living with dementia. The spirituality-supportive caring and
living environment has rarely been studied, even though the
environment plays an important role in supporting the well-being of
older people with dementia.

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OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

To further understand about the spirituality-supportive elements of a

caring and living environment from the perspective of older people with

dementia and their family members.

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 METHODOLOGY

APPROACH Qualitative

RESEARCH DESIGN Phenomenological design

Home care and long-term care

SETTING
settings in Southern Finland
Older people with dementia and their
POPULATION
family members

SAMPLING TECHNIQUES Purposive sampling

Ten older people with dementia and

SAMPLE SIZE
their nine family members
An interview-based study was
TOOL FOR DATA COLLECTION conducted using photography to
collect the data.

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CONT’D

INCLUSION CRITERIA
Older people with dementia or their family members:
1.should be diagnosed with dementia.
2.should have capacity to consent (assessed by the individual, their
family members, nurses, and researchers) and
3.have an interest in sharing their experiences about their spirituality
support

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EXCLUSION CRITERIA:
1.With other comorbidities
2.Age less than 75 yrs
3.Admitted in acute care settings

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RESULTS

• Spirituality was seen as a continuum within human life, manifested

through the environment even if older people with dementia were
unable to express themselves.

• The spirituality experiences of the participants within the caring and

living environment were summarized into three themes: “Where do I
belong?”, “What remains of me in the world?” and “Where am I
going?”

• The older people, their family members and other people involved in
their care provided a caring and living environment that supported
spirituality with opportunities to seek answers to these questions
through to the meaning of their life

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DISCUSSIONS AND CONCLUSION

• This hermeneutic phenomenological study provides a new insight

into the environment that supports the spirituality of older people
with dementia.
• Spirituality is worth of considering when planning a caring and living
environment that supports what is important to the personhood of
older people with dementia

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Thank You

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