Paula Vasara
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 875817 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Paula Vasara |
| NOMBRES | Paula |
| APELLIDO | Vasara |
| FIRMA | VASARA P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Jyväskylä |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5209-7495 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Mapping the dark side of care
Robotour for Seniors – A Co-Learning Model to Enhance Robot Literacy among Older Adults in the Care Home Context
This study presents “Robotour for Seniors” (RTS), a co-learning model designed to enhance robot literacy among older adults (75+) living in care homes. The RTS consists of a series of workshops involving group discussions, interactions with various social robots (Paro, Nao, Furhat, Pepper, and QT), and activities designed to improve understanding and familiarity with social robots. The study aims to assess RTS’s feasibility for enhancing robot li…
Outreach work with older adults in three Finnish cities
Addressing human needs
The purpose of this article is to explore, through the lens of Tronto’s ethics of care, the narrative accounts of care encounters that take place within outreach work in Finland. The article employs thematic narrative analysis to investigate care encounters in outreach work. The findings highlight the necessity for constant vigilance and the ability to attune to others, situationality, and everyday ethics in care encounters and social work practi…
Residing in communal senior housing
Currently, Nordic welfare societies are at a crossroads. Ongoing demographic changes – such as ageing, accompanied by challenges in financing adequate services for all – have highlighted the need to consider the roles of citizens and the state in a novel way. Balancing rights and responsibilities has always been at the core of universalism, even though, traditionally, trust in the welfare state's ability to fulfil its basic function of providing …
The trouble with vulnerability. Narrating ageing during the Covid-19 pandemic
In this paper, we have used the exceptional circumstances created by the COVID-19 pandemic as a window for investigating the ambivalent, stereotypical and often-incongruent portrayals of exceptional vulnerability and resilient self-management that define the self-constructions available for older adults. From the onset of the pandemic, older adults were publicly and homogenously presented as a biomedically vulnerable population, and the implement…
Not ageing in place
Not ageing in place
The trouble with vulnerability. Narrating ageing during the Covid-19 pandemic
In this paper, we have used the exceptional circumstances created by the COVID-19 pandemic as a window for investigating the ambivalent, stereotypical and often-incongruent portrayals of exceptional vulnerability and resilient self-management that define the self-constructions available for older adults. From the onset of the pandemic, older adults were publicly and homogenously presented as a biomedically vulnerable population, and the implement…
Not ageing in place
The trouble with vulnerability. Narrating ageing during the Covid-19 pandemic
In this paper, we have used the exceptional circumstances created by the COVID-19 pandemic as a window for investigating the ambivalent, stereotypical and often-incongruent portrayals of exceptional vulnerability and resilient self-management that define the self-constructions available for older adults. From the onset of the pandemic, older adults were publicly and homogenously presented as a biomedically vulnerable population, and the implement…
Residing in communal senior housing
Currently, Nordic welfare societies are at a crossroads. Ongoing demographic changes – such as ageing, accompanied by challenges in financing adequate services for all – have highlighted the need to consider the roles of citizens and the state in a novel way. Balancing rights and responsibilities has always been at the core of universalism, even though, traditionally, trust in the welfare state's ability to fulfil its basic function of providing …
Robotour for Seniors – A Co-Learning Model to Enhance Robot Literacy among Older Adults in the Care Home Context
This study presents “Robotour for Seniors” (RTS), a co-learning model designed to enhance robot literacy among older adults (75+) living in care homes. The RTS consists of a series of workshops involving group discussions, interactions with various social robots (Paro, Nao, Furhat, Pepper, and QT), and activities designed to improve understanding and familiarity with social robots. The study aims to assess RTS’s feasibility for enhancing robot li…
Outreach work with older adults in three Finnish cities
Addressing human needs
The purpose of this article is to explore, through the lens of Tronto’s ethics of care, the narrative accounts of care encounters that take place within outreach work in Finland. The article employs thematic narrative analysis to investigate care encounters in outreach work. The findings highlight the necessity for constant vigilance and the ability to attune to others, situationality, and everyday ethics in care encounters and social work practi…
Mapping the dark side of care
Gerontology (4 obras) · Medicine (4 obras) · Psychology (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · Aging and Gerontology Research (3 obras) · Computer Science (2 obras) · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (2 obras) · Health disparities and outcomes (2 obras) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (2 obras) · Narrative (2 obras)