Participation of persons living with dementia in research: A means to address epistemic injustice.

Epistemic injustice refers to wronging or mistreating individuals in terms of their capacity as knowers, based on prejudices or negative attitudes. Excluding people with dementia from research is a form of epistemic injustice. In this article, we discuss epistemic injustice associated with data collection processes and the participation of people with dementia in scientific research.

Community-dwelling older adults and their informal carers call for more attention to psychosocial needs - Interview study on unmet care needs in three European countries.

Background: Unmet care needs are usually defined in terms of receiving sufficient help in instrumental activities and activities of daily living. Research on unmet needs is mostly based on quantitative data. Older persons' and informal carers' views and experiences have received less attention.

Care Poverty Within the Home Space: Exploring the Emotional Experiences of Unmet Care Needs.

Older adults face inequalities in care. The concept of care poverty has been developed to point out how unmet care needs are not just an individual issue but a phenomenon linked to social and economic disadvantage and societal inequality. In this paper, we approach the question of care poverty by focusing on its intertwinement with emotions and the home space.

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

Ageing in place has become a policy priority. Consequently, residential care has been reduced, and more older people with multiple care needs reside at home with the help of informal care and home care services. An increasing share of these people has memory disorders.

Finnish healthcare professionals' attitudes towards robots: Reflections on a population sample.

Aim: To answer the question: 'How prepared healthcare professionals are to take robots as their assistants in terms of experience and acceptance?'

Background: The ageing population, increasing care needs and shortage of healthcare professionals pose major challenges in Western societies. Special service robots designed for care tasks have been introduced as one solution to these problems.

Design: A correlative design.

Users of home-care services in a Nordic welfare state under marketisation: the rich, the poor and the sick.

Stricter access to public services, outsourcing of municipal services and increasing allocation of public funding for the purchase of private services have resulted in a marketisation wave in Finland. In this context of a Nordic welfare state undergoing marketisation, this paper aims to examine the use of Finnish care services among older people and find out who are using these new kinds of private services. How wide is their use and do the users of private care services differ from those who are using public services? How usual is it to mix both public and private care services? The questionnaire survey data set used here was gathered in 2010 among the population aged 75 and over in the cities of Jyväskylä and Tampere (N = 1436).