Opportunities to live a good and dignified life for single, older people with high levels of home support needs

National policy documents emphasize that the care of older people should support a dignified life. This research focuses on the possibilities of living a good and dignified life among single people aged 80 or over living at home with the highest level of care (level four).

Issues of well-being and good life are highlighted from the perspective of older people, as well as from the perspective of people in various management and governance roles. One of the studies focuses specifically on widows living alone and their accounts of opportunities and constraints for a good and dignified life in the present.