Browsing Administrative Staff Authors (Scholarly Publications) by Author "Timonen, Virpi"
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Doing intergenerational friendship: Challenging the dominance of age homophily in friendship
Timonen, Virpi; Elliott O'Dare, Catherine; Conlon, Catherine (2021)This article challenges the dominance of age homophily in the literature on friendship. Using findings from a recent study on intergenerational friendship, we put forward a new conceptualisation of a homophily of doing-and-being ... -
Family, state, class and solidarity: Re-conceptualising intergenerational solidarity through the Grounded Theory approach
Timonen, Virpi; Conlon, Catherine (2013)The relationship between class and intergenerational solidarities in the public and private spheres calls for further conceptual and theoretical development. This article discusses the findings from the first wave of a ... -
Fortunate and fearful: Emotions evoked by home care policies for older people in Ireland
Timonen, Virpi; Lolich, Luciana (2020)This article examines the emotions of fear and feeling fortunate experienced by key actors in home care services in Ireland. We take a relational approach to emotions, that is to say, an understanding that emotions are ... -
The Need for a Social Revolution in Residential Care
Timonen, Virpi (2015) -
Policies for active ageing and their family-related assumptions and consequences
Timonen, Virpi (Oxford University Press, 2022)Active ageing has become the dominant paradigm governing the direction of public policies concerning older people in the Western world. There are many definitions of active ageing, but the central features of its approach ... -
Retirement pathways and pensions inequality in China: A grounded theory study
Timonen, Virpi (2021)Purpose: Existing research focuses on the pension systems and reforms in China from a macro-level and financial perspective. The expectations of mid-life Chinese people regarding their retirement and pensions have been ... -
The Role and Future Development of Meals-on-Wheels Services for Older People in Ireland
Timonen, Virpi (National Council on Ageing and Older People, 2008)In recent years, the National Council on Ageing and Older People (NCAOP) has noted the increased recognition of the importance of the meals-on-wheels services in improving older people?s nutritional status, health and ... -
"Time is more important than anything else": Tensions of time in home care of older adults in Ireland
Timonen, Virpi (2019)This article explores perceptions of time reported by service users, family carers, care workers, nurses, social workers and agency managers across home support services for older adults in Ireland. The findings are organised ... -
Turning the 'problem' into the solution: Hopes, trends and contradictions in home care policies for ageing populations
Timonen, Virpi (Information Age Publishing, 2018)