All Outputs (40)

Migrants’ Healthcare Experience: A Meta‐Ethnography Review of the Literature. (2018)
Journal Article
Luiking, M., Heckemann, B., Ali, P., Dekker-van Doorn, C., Ghosh, S., Kydd, A., …Patel, H. (2019). Migrants’ Healthcare Experience: A Meta‐Ethnography Review of the Literature. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 51(1), 58-67. https://doi.org/10.1111/jnu.12442

Purpose: Worldwide, more than 214 million people have left their country of origin. Such unprecedented mass migration impacts on health care in host countries. This paper explores and synthesizes literature on the health care experiences of migrants.... Read More about Migrants’ Healthcare Experience: A Meta‐Ethnography Review of the Literature..

Migrants’ healthcare experience: a meta-ethnography review of the literature (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Macedo, S. P., Patel, H., Ali, P., Heckemann, B., Ghosh, S., Watson, R., …Dekker-van Doorn, C. M. (2018, July). Migrants’ healthcare experience: a meta-ethnography review of the literature. Paper presented at 29th International Nursing Research Congress

Purpose: Worldwide, more than 214 million people have left their country of origin. Such unprecedented mass migration impacts on health care in host countries. This paper explores and synthesizes literature on the health care experiences of migrants.... Read More about Migrants’ healthcare experience: a meta-ethnography review of the literature.

Ageism in the Third Age (2018)
Book Chapter
Kydd, A., Fleming, A., Gardner, S., & Hafford-Letchfield, P. (2018). Ageism in the Third Age. In L. Ayalon, & C. Tesch-Roemer (Eds.), Contemporary Perspectives on Ageism. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73820-8_8

In the developed world, later life has brought more opportunities to contribute to society and pursue personal goals outside the role of paid work, combined with less stigma and greater recognition of the worth of older people. These values do not ne... Read More about Ageism in the Third Age.

What makes a nursing home homely? A Scottish based study, using Q methodology of the perceptions of staff, residents and significant others (2018)
Journal Article
Fleming, A., & Kydd, A. (2018). What makes a nursing home homely? A Scottish based study, using Q methodology of the perceptions of staff, residents and significant others. Journal of Research in Nursing, 23(2-3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1744987118757837

Background: A ‘homely’ nursing or care home is of international interest and comes from a wide variety of academic disciplines and from policy makers and charities. However, ‘homeliness’ is a dynamic and complex concept and one worthy of further in... Read More about What makes a nursing home homely? A Scottish based study, using Q methodology of the perceptions of staff, residents and significant others.

An inquiry into what organised difficult advance care planning conversations in a Scottish Residential Care Home using Institutional Ethnography (2018)
Journal Article
Reid, L., Kydd, A., & Slater, B. (2018). An inquiry into what organised difficult advance care planning conversations in a Scottish Residential Care Home using Institutional Ethnography. Journal of Research in Nursing, 23(2-3), https://doi.org/10.1177/1744987118756477

This paper provides an institutional ethnographic analysis of how discussions and advance decisions about serious illness, hospital admission and Do Not Attempt Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation forms have been systematically placed into the hands of Se... Read More about An inquiry into what organised difficult advance care planning conversations in a Scottish Residential Care Home using Institutional Ethnography.

Flag Procession (2017)
Digital Artefact
Kydd, A. (2017). Flag Procession

No abstract available. Report of the flag procession at the 44th Biennial Convention of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International.

Living with an indwelling urethral catheter in a community setting: Exploring triggers for unscheduled community nurse “out-of-hours” visits (2017)
Journal Article
Mackay, W. G., MacIntosh, T., Kydd, A., Fleming, A., O'Kane, C., Shepherd, A., …McIver, V. (2018). Living with an indwelling urethral catheter in a community setting: Exploring triggers for unscheduled community nurse “out-of-hours” visits. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 27(3-4), 866-875. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.14117

Aims and Objective: To explore the experiences of community patients living with a urethral catheter and those caring for them. Background: Living at home with an indwelling urethral catheter often results in consequences that create a double-edge... Read More about Living with an indwelling urethral catheter in a community setting: Exploring triggers for unscheduled community nurse “out-of-hours” visits.

Dignity in nursing care: What does it mean to nursing students? (2017)
Journal Article
Mullen, R. F., Kydd, A., Fleming, A., & McMillan, L. (2017). Dignity in nursing care: What does it mean to nursing students?. Nursing Ethics, https://doi.org/10.1177/0969733017720825

Background: Despite growing interest in the potential of nursing education to enhance dignity in nursing care, relatively little is known about what dignity means to nursing students. Research question: What meaning does dignity in nursing care have... Read More about Dignity in nursing care: What does it mean to nursing students?.

Prescribing for the Oldest Old (2017)
Journal Article
Kydd, A., & Fleming, A. (2017). Prescribing for the Oldest Old. Journal of Palliative Care & Medicine, 7(5 (supp.)), https://doi.org/10.4172/2165-7386-C1-010

Given the global increase in people over the age of 85, there is a growing body of literature looking at treating the oldest old. However much of this work is confined to the literature specialising in geriatrics and the more generic health care pap... Read More about Prescribing for the Oldest Old.

Defining Old (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Fleming, A., Paoletti, I., Hvalic Touzery, S., & Kydd, A. (2017, July). Defining Old. Paper presented at International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics, San Francisco, USA

The number of people classed as the ‘oldest old’ is growing at a faster rate than any other age group. Projections globally show that the numbers of those classed as the ‘oldest old’, those aged 85 and over are the fastest growing cohort Yet, much of... Read More about Defining Old.

Ageism (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Kydd, A., Fleming, A., Gardner, S., & Hafford-Letchfield, T. (2017, July). Ageism. Paper presented at International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics

The developed world has an increasing number of people who are classed as the ‘old’, with the largest increase being those aged over eighty-five years. Population ageing is a worldwide phenomenon. The “oldest old” (people aged 85 or older) constitute... Read More about Ageism.

Care homes: The developing ideology of a homelike place to live (2017)
Journal Article
Fleming, A., Kydd, A., & Stewart, S. (2017). Care homes: The developing ideology of a homelike place to live. Maturitas, 99, 92-97. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2017.02.013

This paper reports on part of a doctoral study which explored stakeholder perceptions of the importance of a homelike environment in a care home and which factors contributed to this. The changes in institutional care for older people have evolved fr... Read More about Care homes: The developing ideology of a homelike place to live.

Ageism from the third age to the fourth age (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Kydd, A. (2017, February). Ageism from the third age to the fourth age. Presented at Cost Action on Ageism, Jagellonian University, Poland

No abstract available.

Gerontology as a specialty (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Kydd, A. (2017, January). Gerontology as a specialty. Presented at Winterschool, Winterthur Switzerland

No abstract available.

Management of indwelling urethral catheters in community settings (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Kydd, A., MacKay, W., MacIntosh, T., McIver, V., & O'Kane, C. (2016, October). Management of indwelling urethral catheters in community settings. Paper presented at 5th European Nursing Congress, Rotterdam

Introduction: This paper presents part of a larger study which examined callout patterns of people with catheters in the community, explored stakeholder experiences and developed a shared training resource to address identified problems. The study wa... Read More about Management of indwelling urethral catheters in community settings.

Defining the oldest old (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Kydd, A., Fleming, A., Paoletti, I., & Hvalic Touzery, S. (2016, October). Defining the oldest old. Paper presented at 5th European Nursing Congress, Rotterdam

Background: It is an incontrovertible fact that the world has an increasing number of people who are classed as the ‘oldest old’ and sometimes referred to as the ‘fourth age’. This group of people are usually identified as those aged 85 and over. The... Read More about Defining the oldest old.

Culture change in care homes: development and facilitation (2016)
Journal Article
Wild, D., & Kydd, A. (2016). Culture change in care homes: development and facilitation. Nursing Older People, 28(8), 31-37. https://doi.org/10.7748/nop.2016.e790

This article is the second of a two-part series that explores a programme of culture change in care homes. In this article, the authors describe their independent development and facilitation of a flexible learning programme for care homes, designed... Read More about Culture change in care homes: development and facilitation.

Culture change in care homes: a literature review. (2016)
Journal Article
Wild, D., & Kydd, A. (2016). Culture change in care homes: a literature review. Nursing Older People, 28(7), 35-39. https://doi.org/10.7748/nop.2016.e789

This article is the first of a two-part series that explores a programme of culture change in care homes. A UK care home company sought the authors’ expertise to design and facilitate an independent programme of learning to encourage and support staf... Read More about Culture change in care homes: a literature review..

Digital skills training in care homes: achievement: In the second of their two-part series, Deidre Wild and colleagues describe the successes and challenges of introducing training for staff with the help of ‘IT champions’ (2016)
Journal Article
Wild, D., & Kydd, A. (2016). Digital skills training in care homes: achievement: In the second of their two-part series, Deidre Wild and colleagues describe the successes and challenges of introducing training for staff with the help of ‘IT champions’. Nursing Older People, 28(5), 31-36. https://doi.org/10.7748/nop.28.5.31.s26

This article describes digital skills training (DST) for staff and later, residents, as part of a programme of culture change in a large care home with nursing in Glasgow. It presents the successes and challenges arising from DST from the perspective... Read More about Digital skills training in care homes: achievement: In the second of their two-part series, Deidre Wild and colleagues describe the successes and challenges of introducing training for staff with the help of ‘IT champions’.

What doctors need to know: Prescribing or not for the oldest old (2016)
Journal Article
Kydd, A., & Fleming, A. (2016). What doctors need to know: Prescribing or not for the oldest old. Maturitas, 90, 9-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2016.05.003

Given the global increase in the number of people over the age of 85, there is a growing body of work concerning this group, termed the oldest old. Much of this work is confined to the literature specialising in geriatrics and the more generic health... Read More about What doctors need to know: Prescribing or not for the oldest old.