Lina Van Aerschot
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 875816 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lina Van Aerschot |
| PRENOMES | Lina |
| SOBRENOME | Van Aerschot |
| ASSINATURA | VAN AERSCHOT L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Jyväskylä |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8493-4166 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Adaptable and shared
While contemporary ageing policies emphasise the importance of supporting older people’s agency, research on how people living with dementia themselves perceive and articulate agency remains limited. Existing studies have often focused on the loss of agency or on external factors that enable or constrain it, leaving a gap in understanding the subjective, lived experience of agency as dementia progresses. This study examines the sense of agency am…
Care Deliberations of Family Carers of People Living With Dementia—Applying an Affective‐Discursive Practices Approach
Dementia is the leading cause of care needs for older adults in Finland, with significant care contributions from families. Although not legally obliged, families often provide care driven by emotional bonds, moral obligations and practical considerations. Even though previous research has extensively explored the reasons why families provide care, analyses of their affective dimensions remain scarce. This study aims to explore these by examining…
Family carers’ experiences of moral distress when caring for a person living with dementia
This article examines moral distress among Finnish carers of people living with dementia, based on group interviews with 24 carers, including adult children and spouses. Moral distress arises from decisions conflicting with the autonomy and self-determination of the person living with dementia and from perceived care inadequacies. Carers experience restricted moral agency, feeling unable to act according to their moral values, resulting in emotio…
Outreach work with older adults in three Finnish cities
Carers of persons with dementia and the social consequences of caring
Caring affects the social relationships of unpaid carers and the families of those being cared for in multiple ways. Care for a person with dementia often becomes demanding and requires reconciliation of caring with a personal life, work and social relationships. Carers are also prone to care poverty. In this article, we examine the social consequences of providing care for a person with dementia. Based on 21 diaries written by carers, and using …
Bridging Communication Gaps
As global populations age, the prevalence of dementia is increasing, highlighting the need for research that prioritizes the voices and perspectives of those living with the disease. Historically underrepresented, people with dementia offer unique insights and valuable narratives, despite the cognitive changes that impact their communication. Obstacles remain, however, for people with dementia to participate in research, a number of which have be…
Not Free at All
In Finland, older persons are entitled to needs-tested public home care services. Home care mainly assists with personal care, activities of daily living and medical needs. It is complemented with auxiliary services that offer help with instrumental activities of daily living. In Finland, municipalities are responsible for organising public home care services. These services are mainly tax-funded, but user fees are also charged. In this article, …
Care Poverty Within the Home Space
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. We analyze how the presence, or more commonly absence, of care shapes interviewees' des…
Psychophysical burden and lack of support
Long‐term care of older adults is currently suffering from a shortage of trained personnel and high turnover rates. Care work is poorly paid, demanding, increasingly time‐bound and both mentally and physically burdensome. In this study, we examined the individual, organisational and economic factors that predict professional care workers’ intentions to leave their current employment, using the NORDCARE survey data (2015, N = 3801) collected in De…
Robots responding to care needs? A multitasking care robot pursued for 25 years, available products offer simple entertainment and instrumental assistance
Twenty-five years ago, robotics guru Joseph Engelberger had a mission to motivate research teams all over the world to design the ‘Elderly Care Giver’, a multitasking personal robot assistant for everyday care needs in old age. In this article, we discuss how this vision of omnipotent care robots has influenced the design strategies of care robotics, the development of R&D initiatives and ethics research on use of care robots. Despite the expecta…
Care poverty
This article introduces the concept of care poverty, defined as inadequate coverage of care needs resulting from an interplay between individual and societal factors, and examines its level and predictors among the 75+ population in Finland. The data come from a survey conducted in 2010 and 2015. Despite the universalistic goals of the Finnish care system, 26 percent of respondents with limitations in daily activities faced care poverty with rega…
Towards Ethical Guidelines of Using Telepresence Robots in Residential Care
Robotic telepresence is a potential technology to help alleviating the loneliness of elderly people. The impacts of long-term use of telepresence robots in residential care are not well known. We were interested in how using a telepresence robot influences the resident, family members and care workers at a facility, and what challenges and solutions there are for wider adoption of such robots in residential care. With a telepresence robot Double,…
Users of home-care services in a Nordic welfare state under marketisation
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…
The link between socio-economic background and Internet use
The digital divide affects low socio-economic status groups in particular. According to previous research and survey results of the ELOST project (e-Government for Low Socio-Economic Groups), socio-economic factors – especially age and level of education – play a role in determining whether a person is an Internet user or non-user. This article presents the findings of the survey, as well as those of focus group discussions organized within the f…
Care poverty
This article introduces the concept of care poverty, defined as inadequate coverage of care needs resulting from an interplay between individual and societal factors, and examines its level and predictors among the 75+ population in Finland. The data come from a survey conducted in 2010 and 2015. Despite the universalistic goals of the Finnish care system, 26 percent of respondents with limitations in daily activities faced care poverty with rega…
Users of home-care services in a Nordic welfare state under marketisation
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…
Towards Ethical Guidelines of Using Telepresence Robots in Residential Care
Robotic telepresence is a potential technology to help alleviating the loneliness of elderly people. The impacts of long-term use of telepresence robots in residential care are not well known. We were interested in how using a telepresence robot influences the resident, family members and care workers at a facility, and what challenges and solutions there are for wider adoption of such robots in residential care. With a telepresence robot Double,…
Robots responding to care needs? A multitasking care robot pursued for 25 years, available products offer simple entertainment and instrumental assistance
Twenty-five years ago, robotics guru Joseph Engelberger had a mission to motivate research teams all over the world to design the ‘Elderly Care Giver’, a multitasking personal robot assistant for everyday care needs in old age. In this article, we discuss how this vision of omnipotent care robots has influenced the design strategies of care robotics, the development of R&D initiatives and ethics research on use of care robots. Despite the expecta…
Psychophysical burden and lack of support
Long‐term care of older adults is currently suffering from a shortage of trained personnel and high turnover rates. Care work is poorly paid, demanding, increasingly time‐bound and both mentally and physically burdensome. In this study, we examined the individual, organisational and economic factors that predict professional care workers’ intentions to leave their current employment, using the NORDCARE survey data (2015, N = 3801) collected in De…
Carers of persons with dementia and the social consequences of caring
Caring affects the social relationships of unpaid carers and the families of those being cared for in multiple ways. Care for a person with dementia often becomes demanding and requires reconciliation of caring with a personal life, work and social relationships. Carers are also prone to care poverty. In this article, we examine the social consequences of providing care for a person with dementia. Based on 21 diaries written by carers, and using …
Not Free at All
In Finland, older persons are entitled to needs-tested public home care services. Home care mainly assists with personal care, activities of daily living and medical needs. It is complemented with auxiliary services that offer help with instrumental activities of daily living. In Finland, municipalities are responsible for organising public home care services. These services are mainly tax-funded, but user fees are also charged. In this article, …
The link between socio-economic background and Internet use
The digital divide affects low socio-economic status groups in particular. According to previous research and survey results of the ELOST project (e-Government for Low Socio-Economic Groups), socio-economic factors – especially age and level of education – play a role in determining whether a person is an Internet user or non-user. This article presents the findings of the survey, as well as those of focus group discussions organized within the f…
The link between socio-economic background and Internet use
The digital divide affects low socio-economic status groups in particular. According to previous research and survey results of the ELOST project (e-Government for Low Socio-Economic Groups), socio-economic factors – especially age and level of education – play a role in determining whether a person is an Internet user or non-user. This article presents the findings of the survey, as well as those of focus group discussions organized within the f…
Users of home-care services in a Nordic welfare state under marketisation
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…
Care poverty
This article introduces the concept of care poverty, defined as inadequate coverage of care needs resulting from an interplay between individual and societal factors, and examines its level and predictors among the 75+ population in Finland. The data come from a survey conducted in 2010 and 2015. Despite the universalistic goals of the Finnish care system, 26 percent of respondents with limitations in daily activities faced care poverty with rega…
Towards Ethical Guidelines of Using Telepresence Robots in Residential Care
Robotic telepresence is a potential technology to help alleviating the loneliness of elderly people. The impacts of long-term use of telepresence robots in residential care are not well known. We were interested in how using a telepresence robot influences the resident, family members and care workers at a facility, and what challenges and solutions there are for wider adoption of such robots in residential care. With a telepresence robot Double,…
Robots responding to care needs? A multitasking care robot pursued for 25 years, available products offer simple entertainment and instrumental assistance
Twenty-five years ago, robotics guru Joseph Engelberger had a mission to motivate research teams all over the world to design the ‘Elderly Care Giver’, a multitasking personal robot assistant for everyday care needs in old age. In this article, we discuss how this vision of omnipotent care robots has influenced the design strategies of care robotics, the development of R&D initiatives and ethics research on use of care robots. Despite the expecta…
Care Poverty Within the Home Space
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. We analyze how the presence, or more commonly absence, of care shapes interviewees' des…
Psychophysical burden and lack of support
Long‐term care of older adults is currently suffering from a shortage of trained personnel and high turnover rates. Care work is poorly paid, demanding, increasingly time‐bound and both mentally and physically burdensome. In this study, we examined the individual, organisational and economic factors that predict professional care workers’ intentions to leave their current employment, using the NORDCARE survey data (2015, N = 3801) collected in De…
Not Free at All
In Finland, older persons are entitled to needs-tested public home care services. Home care mainly assists with personal care, activities of daily living and medical needs. It is complemented with auxiliary services that offer help with instrumental activities of daily living. In Finland, municipalities are responsible for organising public home care services. These services are mainly tax-funded, but user fees are also charged. In this article, …
Outreach work with older adults in three Finnish cities
Carers of persons with dementia and the social consequences of caring
Caring affects the social relationships of unpaid carers and the families of those being cared for in multiple ways. Care for a person with dementia often becomes demanding and requires reconciliation of caring with a personal life, work and social relationships. Carers are also prone to care poverty. In this article, we examine the social consequences of providing care for a person with dementia. Based on 21 diaries written by carers, and using …
Bridging Communication Gaps
As global populations age, the prevalence of dementia is increasing, highlighting the need for research that prioritizes the voices and perspectives of those living with the disease. Historically underrepresented, people with dementia offer unique insights and valuable narratives, despite the cognitive changes that impact their communication. Obstacles remain, however, for people with dementia to participate in research, a number of which have be…
Adaptable and shared
While contemporary ageing policies emphasise the importance of supporting older people’s agency, research on how people living with dementia themselves perceive and articulate agency remains limited. Existing studies have often focused on the loss of agency or on external factors that enable or constrain it, leaving a gap in understanding the subjective, lived experience of agency as dementia progresses. This study examines the sense of agency am…
Care Deliberations of Family Carers of People Living With Dementia—Applying an Affective‐Discursive Practices Approach
Dementia is the leading cause of care needs for older adults in Finland, with significant care contributions from families. Although not legally obliged, families often provide care driven by emotional bonds, moral obligations and practical considerations. Even though previous research has extensively explored the reasons why families provide care, analyses of their affective dimensions remain scarce. This study aims to explore these by examining…
Family carers’ experiences of moral distress when caring for a person living with dementia
This article examines moral distress among Finnish carers of people living with dementia, based on group interviews with 24 carers, including adult children and spouses. Moral distress arises from decisions conflicting with the autonomy and self-determination of the person living with dementia and from perceived care inadequacies. Carers experience restricted moral agency, feeling unable to act according to their moral values, resulting in emotio…
Medicine (8 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes (6 obras) · Dementia (5 obras) · Economic growth (5 obras) · Economics (5 obras) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (5 obras) · Business (4 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras)