Ageing, Wellbeing and Climate Change in the Arctic

Päivi Naskali is Professor of Women’s Studies in the Department of Gender Studies and serves as Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Lapland, Finland.Marjaana Seppänen is Professor of Social Work at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Shahnaj Begum is a PhD candidate and researcher at the Unit for Gender Studies in the Faculty of Education at the University of Lapland, Finland.

• Introduction 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 populations 6. 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 Sweden 12. 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