Since February 2018, I have had the pleasure of working in the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care (CoE AgeCare) in the sub-project New technologies, ageing and care, led by Dr Sakari Taipale. I am currently living in Tampere, Finland.
In my work, I explore what aspects are essential in lived care relations and what these aspects might mean for current and future practical caring phenomena. My research draws on the tradition of care ethics (as in the feminist moral philosophy), phenomenology, philosophies of embodiment, science and technology studies, as well as qualitative analyses of care of older persons.
PhD dissertation thesis
Hämäläinen, A. (2024). Encountering the other : care ethics and the technologisation of care of older persons. University of Jyväskylä. JYU Dissertations, 782. 978-952-86-0152-4_vaitos18052024.pdf
Scientific articles and book chapters
- Hämäläinen, A., Leinonen, E., & Era, S. (2024). Attunement as a practice of encountering dementia time in long-term eldercare work. Time and Society, 33(2), 170–190.https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X231215945
- Hämäläinen (2022) The epistemological complexity of ideal care – LTC professionals’ perspectives, International Journal of Care and Caring. https://doi.org/10.1332/239788221X16382572220893
- Hämäläinen, A. & Hirvonen, H. (2020). Electronic Health Records reshaping the socio-technical practices in Long-Term Care of older persons, Technology in Society, 62, 101316. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2020.101316
- Hämäläinen, A. (2020). Responses to vulnerability: care ethics and the technologisation of eldercare, International Journal of Care and Caring 4(2), 167-182. https://doi.org/10.1332/239788220X15833753877589
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- Hirvonen, H., Tammelin, M., Hämäläinen, A., & Taipale, S. (2021). Group‐based instant messaging in Finnish residential elder care work: Taming the technology or vice versa? New Technology, Work and Employment.
- Tammelin, M., Hirvonen, H., Hämäläinen, A., & Hänninen, R. (2021). Sense of belonging in a digitalised care work community. In Digital Transformations in Care for Older People (pp. 128-144). Routledge.
- Oinas, T., Karhinen, J., Tammelin, M., Hirvonen, H., Hämäläinen, A., & Taipale, S. (2021). Teknologisten laitteiden ja sovellusten käyttö vanhustyössä: työn piirteiden ja yksilötekijöiden vaikutusten tarkastelua. Yhteiskuntapolitiikka, 86(2).
- Van Aerschot, L.; Hämäläinen, A. & Pirhonen, J. (2020). Robotiikasta apua hoivaankin? Teoksessa Särkikoski, T.; Turja, T. & Parviainen, J. (toim.) Robotin hoiviin – Yhteiskuntatieteen ja filosofian näkökulmia palvelurobotiikkaan.Tampere: Vastapaino.
- Taipale, S.; Oinas, T.; Karhinen, J.; Hämäläinen, A.; Tammelin, M. (2020). Luottamus teknologiaan on koetuksella.Vanhustyö, 2020 (2), 14-15.
- Karhinen, J., Taipale, S., Tammelin, M., Hämäläinen, A., Hirvonen, H. & Oinas, T. (2019). Vanhustyö ja teknologia. Jyväskylän yliopiston vanhustyön kyselytutkimus 2019 : Katsaus tutkimusaineistoon.
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