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

Postdoctoral Researcher

Salla Era

Postdoctoral Researcher

Paula Vasara

Senior Researcher

External members

Tiina Sihto

University of Helsinki

Motoko Ishikawa

University of Helsinki

Publications

Publication

2021

The Most Invisible Maternal Experience? : Analysing How Maternal Regret Is Discussed in Finland

Women’s Lived Experiences of the Gender Gap. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer.

Sihto, Tiina

Mustosmäki, Armi

Publication

2021

Unmet care needs are common among community-dwelling older people with memory problems in Finland

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health.

Aaltonen, Mari S.

Van Aerschot, Lina H.

Publication

2021

Use of antidepressants among Finnish family caregivers : a nationwide register-based study

Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology.

Mikkola, Tuija M.

Kautiainen, Hannu

Mänty, Minna

von Bonsdorff, Mikaela B.

Koponen, Hannu

Kröger, Teppo

Eriksson, Johan G.

Publication

2021

Yksin asuminen – pelkkää huono-osaisuutta?

Alusta!

Sihto, Tiina

Publication

2021

Ylikuormitusta, lähijohtajan tuen puutetta vai vääränlaisia tehtäviä : miksi yhä useammat vanhustyöntekijät harkitsevat työnsä lopettamista?

Yhteiskuntapolitiikka.

Olakivi, Antero

Van Aerschot, Lina

Mathew Puthenparambil, Jiby

Kröger, Teppo

Publication

2020

Opposite Ends : widows' narratives of contemporary late life

International Journal of Ageing and Later Life.

Vasara, Paula

Publication

2020

Robots responding to care needs? : A multitasking care robot pursued for 25 years, available products offer simple entertainment and instrumental assistance

Ethics and Information Technology.

Van Aerschot, Lina

Parviainen, Jaana

Publication

2020

Time to care? : Temporal variations of agency of the Finnish adult foster carers

Journal of Aging Studies.

Leinonen, Emilia

Publication

2019

Care poverty : unmet care needs in a Nordic welfare state

International Journal of Care and Caring.

Kröger, Teppo

Puthenparambil, Jiby Mathew

Aerschot, Lina Van

Publication

2019

Motions with Emotions? : A Phenomenological Approach to Understanding the Simulated Aliveness of a Robot Body

Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology.

Parviainen, Jaana

Van Aerschot, Lina

Särkikoski, Tuomo

Pekkarinen, Satu

Melkas, Helinä

Hennala, Lea

Publication

2019

Placing women? : how locality shapes women's opportunities for reconciling work and care

JYU Dissertations.

Sihto, Tiina

Publication

2018

Distances and proximities of care : Analysing emotio-spatial distances in informal caring

Emotion, Space and Society.

Sihto, Tiina

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