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Author Naskali, Päivi

Title Ageing, Wellbeing and Climate Change in the Arctic : an interdisciplinary analysis
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (275 pages)
Series Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
Routledge advances in climate change research.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: ageing in the Arctic ; Part I Position of older people and policies in the Arctic; 1. How ageism undermines older people's human rights and social inclusion: revisiting advocacy, agency and need in later life; 2. Tracing gender in political ageing strategies and the press in Finnish Lapland; 3. Policies of Arctic countries to promote volunteering in old age; 4. New moving patterns among middle-aged and elderly people in Norway; Part II Elderly people and climate change
5. Climate change in Lapland and its role in the health of the elderly and rural populations6. Gender differences of older people in the changing Arctic; Part III Wellbeing of elderly people; 7. What is wellbeing for the elderly?; 8. Elderly Sami and quality of life: creative strategies applied by the elderly within a Swedish Sami context; 9. Elderly homecare recipients' experiences of homecare: client centered or not?; Part IV Local traditions of Arctic communities; 10. "Wanting Greenlandic food": a story of food, health, and illness in the life of an elderly Greenlandic woman
11. 'Our forest': ageing, agency and 'connection with nature' in rural Tornedalen, northern Sweden12. Towards a broader inclusion of heritage language and traditional knowledge in the Vepsian revival movement: cultural, ideological and economic issues; 13. A room with a view: navigating continuity and rupture within the traditional healing repertoire of Northern Troms; Conclusion; Contributors; Index
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Subject Older people -- Arctic regions.
Climatic changes -- Arctic regions
Climatic changes
Older people
Arctic Regions
Form Electronic book
Author Seppänen, Marjaana
Begum, Shahnaj
ISBN 9781315709437
1315709430