Kirsi Lumme-Sandt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3930245 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirsi Lumme-Sandt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirsi |
| FAMILY NAME | Lumme-Sandt |
| SIGNATURE | LUMME-SANDT K |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
No place to go? Older people reconsidering the meaning of social spaces in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic
Under COVID-19 restrictions, older people were advised to avoid social contact and to self-isolate at home. The situation forced them to reconsider their everyday social spaces such as home and leisure time places. This study approached the meaning of social spaces for older people by examining how older people positioned themselves in relation to social spaces during the pandemic. The data were drawn from the Ageing and social well-being (SoWell…
Turning age into agency
Despite existing laws prohibiting age discrimination in employment and hiring practices, ageism creates inequalities between jobseekers because of their age. Deeply manifested ageist practices take place in everyday interactions within the labor market, complicating changes in career trajectories during late working life. Bringing the time dimension into studies on ageism and individual agency, we narratively examined qualitative longitudinal int…
Vaccination coverage and the factors influencing routine childhood vaccination uptake among communities experiencing disadvantage in Vellore, southern India
Vaccination coverage among children from the surveyed communities in Vellore was suboptimal. Our findings suggest the need to target children from Narikuravar families and conduct periodic community-based health education campaigns to improve parental awareness about and trust in childhood vaccines among the communities experiencing disadvantage in Vellore
Old but not that old’
Autonomy is a pervasive concept in Western lifestyles today. However, people in the fourth age are assumed not to be autonomous but dependent on other people. The data of this study consisted of interviews with Finnish community-dwelling 90–91-year-old people. The study aim was to examine how these people see their own autonomy in their everyday lives. The analysis was based on membership categorisation analysis. Our respondents considered their …
Perceptions by the oldest old of successful aging, Vitality 90+ Study
Transnational connections of later-life migrants
Images of ageing in a 50+ magazine
Interpretative repertoires of medication among the oldest-old
Interpretative repertoires of medication among the oldest-old
Images of ageing in a 50+ magazine
Transnational connections of later-life migrants
Old but not that old’
Autonomy is a pervasive concept in Western lifestyles today. However, people in the fourth age are assumed not to be autonomous but dependent on other people. The data of this study consisted of interviews with Finnish community-dwelling 90–91-year-old people. The study aim was to examine how these people see their own autonomy in their everyday lives. The analysis was based on membership categorisation analysis. Our respondents considered their …
Perceptions by the oldest old of successful aging, Vitality 90+ Study
No place to go? Older people reconsidering the meaning of social spaces in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic
Under COVID-19 restrictions, older people were advised to avoid social contact and to self-isolate at home. The situation forced them to reconsider their everyday social spaces such as home and leisure time places. This study approached the meaning of social spaces for older people by examining how older people positioned themselves in relation to social spaces during the pandemic. The data were drawn from the Ageing and social well-being (SoWell…
Turning age into agency
Despite existing laws prohibiting age discrimination in employment and hiring practices, ageism creates inequalities between jobseekers because of their age. Deeply manifested ageist practices take place in everyday interactions within the labor market, complicating changes in career trajectories during late working life. Bringing the time dimension into studies on ageism and individual agency, we narratively examined qualitative longitudinal int…
Interpretative repertoires of medication among the oldest-old
Images of ageing in a 50+ magazine
Transnational connections of later-life migrants
Perceptions by the oldest old of successful aging, Vitality 90+ Study
Old but not that old’
Autonomy is a pervasive concept in Western lifestyles today. However, people in the fourth age are assumed not to be autonomous but dependent on other people. The data of this study consisted of interviews with Finnish community-dwelling 90–91-year-old people. The study aim was to examine how these people see their own autonomy in their everyday lives. The analysis was based on membership categorisation analysis. Our respondents considered their …
Vaccination coverage and the factors influencing routine childhood vaccination uptake among communities experiencing disadvantage in Vellore, southern India
Vaccination coverage among children from the surveyed communities in Vellore was suboptimal. Our findings suggest the need to target children from Narikuravar families and conduct periodic community-based health education campaigns to improve parental awareness about and trust in childhood vaccines among the communities experiencing disadvantage in Vellore
No place to go? Older people reconsidering the meaning of social spaces in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic
Under COVID-19 restrictions, older people were advised to avoid social contact and to self-isolate at home. The situation forced them to reconsider their everyday social spaces such as home and leisure time places. This study approached the meaning of social spaces for older people by examining how older people positioned themselves in relation to social spaces during the pandemic. The data were drawn from the Ageing and social well-being (SoWell…
Turning age into agency
Despite existing laws prohibiting age discrimination in employment and hiring practices, ageism creates inequalities between jobseekers because of their age. Deeply manifested ageist practices take place in everyday interactions within the labor market, complicating changes in career trajectories during late working life. Bringing the time dimension into studies on ageism and individual agency, we narratively examined qualitative longitudinal int…
Sociology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Gerontology (3 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Qualitative research (3 works)