Ageing and comparative care policy (CoE AgeCare, RG1)

Overview

Core fields of research

Languages, culture and society

Physical activity, health and wellbeing

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Department

Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy

Research group description

Research Group 1 ‘Ageing and Comparative Care Policy’ is led by the Director of CoE AgeCare, Professor Teppo Kröger. RG1 is located in the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä. Its research focuses on care policies in Finland, Europe and globally, and their consequences for older people, their family members and care workers.

Current

Projects

Groups

Members

Research group

Group leaders

Teppo Kröger

Professor

Members

Emilia Leinonen

Postdoctoral Researcher

Jiby Mathew Puthenparambil

Senior Researcher

Sher-E- Khoda

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ulla Halonen

Postdoctoral Researcher

Postdoctoral Researcher

Salla Era

Postdoctoral Researcher

Paula Vasara

Postdoctoral Researcher

External members

Tiina Sihto

University of Helsinki

Motoko Ishikawa

University of Helsinki

Publications

Publication

2024

Narratives of Everyday Life During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Finland

Biographical Perspectives on Lives Lived During Covid-19. Springer.

Vasara, Paula

Publication

2024

Not Free at All : Home Care User Fees in a Nordic Care System

Social Policy and Society.

Ilmarinen, Katja

Van Aerschot, Lina

Kröger, Teppo

Publication

2024

Policy-makers and Population Ageing in Bangladesh : A Dearth of Attention

Journal of Population Ageing.

Khoda, Md. Sher E

Kröger, Teppo

Publication

2024

Reimagining boundaries : policies, concepts and everyday life at the intersection of disability and old age

JYU Dissertations.

Era, Salla

Publication

2024

Residing in communal senior housing : situating the ageing self within debates of the universal welfare state

Ageing and Society.

Vasara, Paula

Publication

2024

The other side : sketching the landscape of care?

Ikääntymisen ja hoivan tutkimuksen huippuyksikön blogi.

Vasara, Paula

Sihto, Tiina

Publication

2024

The Personal and Societal Benefits of Social Activities for Older Adults in Russia : Experts’ Perspectives

Journal of Population Ageing.

Martynova, Liliya

Publication

2024

Towards the caring or the uncaring state? : A social policy perspective on long-term care trends

A Research Agenda for Ageing and Social Policy. Edward Elgar.

Kröger, Teppo

Publication

2023

Being able to provide sufficiently good care for older people : care workers and their working conditions in Finland

International Journal of Care and Caring.

Mathew Puthenparambil, Jiby

Publication

2023

Hoivan pimeä puoli

Gaudeamus.

Sihto, Tiina

Vasara, Paula

Publication

2023

Hoivapalveluiden finansialisaatio Suomessa

Hoivan pimeä puoli. Gaudeamus.

Karsio, Olli

Zechner, Minna

Näre, Lena

Hoppania, Hanna-Kaisa

Vaittinen, Tiina

Publication

2023

Internalization of negative societal views on old age into self-perceptions of aging : exploring factors associated with self-directed ageism

Frontiers in Sociology.

Ishikawa, Motoko

Ageing and comparative care policy (CoE AgeCare, RG1)

Research group description

Living with Dementia

DACO - Daily life and care in old age

NORDCARE - Hoivatyön arkipäivä Pohjoismaissa

Media and robot literacies of people over 65 years of age (MediaRoboLit 65+)

Case Management with Older Adults in Wellbeing Counties – Developing customer-safe and effective case management in changing places and spaces (IPO-hanke)

Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care