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- Nyqvist, Fredrica, 1972-, et al.
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Active ageing : Results from Western Finland
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Ingår i: Research on Finnish Society. - Turku : Society of Social and Economic Research in the Universities of Turku. - 1796-8739 .- 2490-0958. ; 12, s. 55-66
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Active Ageing Index (AAI) can be applied across countries to compare active aging outcomes, evaluate the current situation regarding ageing, and identify the most desired directions for policy action. While the AAI-EU is addressed on a national level, it can also be used for assessing active ageing policies on the municipal level, which is the case in this study. The aim of this article was to assess active ageing amongst older people in western parts of Finland by adapting the methodology used for the AAI-EU. We used GERDA data (n=5,011) collected from people aged 66, 71, 76, 81 and 86 for our descriptive analyses. The results showed that the municipalities differed in their active ageing outcomes, and that men and Swedish speakers generally scored higher on the index, which is something that warrants further investigation. Based on the results, we argue that AAI could potentially be used as a tool to monitor various dimensions of active ageing on a regional level and that gender and ethno-linguistic characteristics should be a central concern for a discussion on ageing in our study region.
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- Snellman, Fredrik, 1975-
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GERDA - Gerontological Regional Database: Overview and findings from a multinational and multidisciplinary research project
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Ingår i: Symposium at the 23rd Nordic Congress of Gerontology, Tampere, Finland, June 19-22, 2016.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Aim to present: an overview of the past, present and future activities within the multidisciplinary cross-country GERDA project, and, research findings based on empirical GERDA data published in international journals. The GERDA project started in 2000, at that point titled Umeå 85+ study, and has since then collected empirical data among older people in four waves. Data was collected in two ways (home visits to people 85 years of age and older and postal surveys to people 65, 70, 75 and 80 years of age). The two most recent waves of data collection were conducted in 2005 and 2010, a new wave of home visits started in spring 2015 and longitudinal data-collection will be carried out during autumn 2015 with a third wave of the GERDA survey. A high number of international publications originate from GERDA home visits (several listed on web-page: http://web.novia.fi/gerda/Rapporter/resultat.html), and two of the studies (nr. 2 and 4) will be presented in the session. At present 11 publications are based on GERDA survey data, two of which will be presented in the session (nr. 3 and 5). Other GERDA publications will be listed for overview.
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- Snellman, Fredrik, 1975-
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Normative, empiricist and interpretive considerations in the ageism research process
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Ingår i: Contemporary perspectives on ageism. - Cham : Springer. - 9783319738192 - 9783319738208 ; , s. 409-424
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter reflects on the normative, empiricist, and interpretive considerations researchers face in the process of researching ageism. The chapter is based on a doctoral dissertation that triangulated data, methods, and theory to explore how ageism is manifested and sustained in the lives of older people. Little attention has previously been devoted to the philosophy of science aspects explicitly related to ageism. An increasing number of ageism publications report on empirical data, but these publications are rarely explicitly related to epistemological and ontological questions. Consequently, there is a gap in what we know about the wide scope of challenges in researching ageism and in how we view and understand ageism in our world. Focusing on the different types of considerations researchers face is a way to show how the choices we are forced to make in the process enable us to or prevent us from making claims about the phenomenon of ageism. Delving into a wider study of epistemological and ontological questions while simultaneously examining ageism definitions and studies can hopefully guide future researchers to make better informed choices on a variety of ways to do research on ageism. Overlapping normative, empiricist, and interpretive contexts can be a way to identify novel research questions, design studies triangularly, and enable new knowledge about ageism, its origins, consequences, and practices.
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- Snellman, Fredrik, 1975-
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Whose ageism? : The reinvigoration and definitiopns of an elusive concept
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Ingår i: Nordic Psychology. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1901-2276 .- 1904-0016. ; 68:3, s. 148-159
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article deals with a critical conceptual understanding of ageism. It does so foremost by prob- lematizing some of the inadequacies in a previously published article that introduces a new defi- nition of the concept ageism. Attention is devoted to (i) the prima facie that the ageism concept is repeatedly underscored as a concept for older people exclusively and the "us-them" distinction; (ii) what the concept ageism means and different ways of defining ageism; and, (iii) different ways in which we desire to study ageism. The article finishes with a simple example in which age- ism is compared to a box of chocolates. The example is used to illuminate how we can carry out anti-ageist work more effectively in society. That is, to help us understand and sometimes avoid the different and relative inferiorities that follow with different ages, in order to come to grips with the different and relative inferiorities that is often assumed to come with old age.
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