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Kirsi Lumme-Sandt

Researcher at University of Tampere

Publications -  23
Citations -  428

Kirsi Lumme-Sandt is an academic researcher from University of Tampere. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Employability. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 19 publications receiving 373 citations. Previous affiliations of Kirsi Lumme-Sandt include RMIT University.

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Images of ageing in a 50+ magazine

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied what kind of ageing identity is constructed and what kinds of roles in old age are available for the readers of magazines aimed at readers over 50 years of age.
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Perceptions by the oldest old of successful aging, Vitality 90 + Study

TL;DR: To discover how 90-91-year-olds see a good old age and identify the dimensions of good and successful aging that appear in their talk, life-story interviews with 45 community-dwelling nonagenarians are conducted.
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Interpretative repertoires of medication among the oldest-old.

TL;DR: This study set out to explore the views of the oldest-old on their medication with narrative interviews with people aged 90 or over to look for different culturally shared interpretative repertoires used by the interviewees as they gave descriptions and accounts of their drug use and presented themselves as users of medical drugs.
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Lonely older people as a problem in society – construction in Finnish media

TL;DR: This article examined how the loneliness of older people is portrayed in mass media and found that loneliness was rarely seen solely as a lack of companionship and many negative attributes were connected to it, including low status of older adults in society, inhumane practices in elderly care, lack of meaning in life and neglect by relatives.
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Older people in the field of medication

TL;DR: This Finnish study conducted five focus group discussions with a total of 34 participants whose ages ranged from 65 to 85 and analysis of the data employed the concepts developed by Pierre Bourdieu.