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Table 2 Structured matrix

From: ‘One feels somewhere that one is insignificant in that system’ – older multimorbid patients’ between lifeworld and system in healthcare

 

Communication, Frustration, Expectation in the healthcare process

Relations to healthcare providers

Objectification of the patient

Lack of ‘consensual coordination of action’

Understanding of what is possible in the care process and being frustrated

Expectations were not aligned

Changes in care were not communicated

No existing relationship to providers

Busy staff

Feelings of not being involved in care

Feeling like an object not a person

Feelings of being a stranger in their own home