List of figures and tables ..................................... ix
Acknowledgements ............................................... xi
Introduction: ageing in the Arctic .............................. 1
PART I
Position of older people and policies in the Arctic ............. 9
1 How ageism undermines older people's human rights and social
inclusion: revisiting advocacy, agency and need in later
life ........................................................ 11
JOAN HARBISON
2 Tracing gender in political ageing strategies and the
press in Finnish Lapland .................................... 30
SEIJA KESKITALO-FOLEY AND PÄIVI NASKALI
3 Policies of Arctic countries to promote volunteering in
old age ..................................................... 49
ANASTASIA EMELYANOVA AND ARJA RAUTIO
4 New moving patterns among middle-aged and elderly people
in Norway ................................................... 69
MARIT AURE AND SINDRE MYHR
PART II
Elderly people and climate change .............................. 91
5 Climate change in Lapland and its role in the health of
the elderly and rural populations ........................... 93
BARBARA SCHUMANN
6 Gender differences of older people in the changing Arctic .. 110
SHAHNAJ BEGUM
PART III
Wellbeing of elderly people ................................... 131
7 What is wellbeing for the elderly? ......................... 133
ELINA VAARA, ILKKA HAAPOLA, MARJAANA SEPPÄNEN, AND ANTTI
KARISTO
8 Elderly Sami and quality of life: creative strategies
applied by the elderly within a Swedish Sami context ....... 147
MARIANNE LILIEQUIST
9 Elderly homecare recipients' experiences of homecare:
client centered or not? .................................... 164
EIJA JUMISKO
PART IV
Local traditions of Arctic communities ........................ 179
10 "Wanting Greenlandic food": a story of food, health, and
illness in the life of an elderly Greenlandic woman ........ 181
TRINE KVITBERG AND RUNE FLIKKE
11 'Our forest': ageing, agency and 'connection with nature'
in rural Tornedalen, northern Sweden ....................... 196
TARJA TAPIO
12 Towards a broader inclusion of heritage language and
traditional knowledge in the Vepsian revival movement:
cultural, ideological and economic issues .................. 213
LAURA SIRAGUSA
13 A room with a view: navigating continuity and rupture
within the traditional healing repertoire of Northern
Troms ...................................................... 231
MONA ANITA KIIL
Conclusion .................................................... 248
Contributors .................................................. 251
Index ......................................................... 255
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