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Beyond Mannheim: Conceptualising how people 'talk' and 'do' generations in contemporary society
TIMONEN, VIRPI; CONLON, CATHERINE (2015)In the 1920s, Karl Mannheim developed the concept of generation in a treatise entitled ‘The Problem of Generations’ (1952/1928). His conceptualisation pertained to what Pilcher (1994) calls ‘social generations’, that is, ... -
'Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt': Solidarity between generations in the Irish crisis
CONLON, CATHERINE; TIMONEN, VIRPI (2014)Ireland has gained a reputation for peaceable acceptance of austerity following a European Union/International Monetary Fund bailout in 2010. While proponents of austerity praise Ireland’s stoicism, critics of global ... -
Breaking the Mould: New Trajectories in the Domiciliary Care of Older People in Ireland
TIMONEN, VIRPI; DOYLE, MARTHA (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008)This article reviews the development of domiciliary care services for older people in Ireland over the last decade. It reveals three central developments, namely (i) the first steps, in the Irish context, towards a ... -
Care revolutions in the making? A comparison of cash-for-care programmes in four European countries.
TIMONEN, VIRPI; CONVERY, JANET; CAHILL, SUZANNE (Cambridge University Press, 2006)This article describes and evaluates cash-for-care programmes for older people in four European countries, namely Home-Care Grants in Ireland, Direct Payments in the United Kingdom (England), Service Vouchers in Finland ... -
Caring and Collaborating Across Cultures? Migrant Care Workers' Relationships with Care Recipients, Colleagues and Employers
TIMONEN, VIRPI; DOYLE, MARTHA (2010)The literature on migrant care workers has tended to place little emphasis on themultiple relationships thatmigrant carers formwith care recipients, employers/managers and work colleagues. This article makes a contribution ... -
Changing Generations - Findings from new research on intergenerational relations in Ireland
TIMONEN, VIRPI; CONLON, CATHERINE (Trinity College Dublin and National University of Ireland Galway, 2013) -
Comparing home care policies across Europe
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Consumption of care and intergenerational relations in the Irish context
TIMONEN, VIRPI; CONLON, CATHERINE (2014)An ageing demographic and changing family practices in Western societies raise the question as to what kind of care landscape will emerge. An Irish study explores practices, experiences and meanings of relations between ... -
Depressive symptoms among older adults: The impact of early and later life circumstances and marital status
TIMONEN, VIRPI (2013)Objective: This article contributes to the literature on depression and the life course by examining the impact of both early and later life circumstances on depressive symptoms among men and women aged 65 and over in ... -
The Different Faces of Care Work: Understanding the Experiences of the Multi-Cultural Care Workforce
TIMONEN, VIRPI; DOYLE, MARTHA (2009)An increased demand for long-term care services coupled with the decreased availability of informal (family) carers in many industrialised countries has led to the employment of growing numbers of `migrant care workers ... -
The differential impact of subjective and objective aspects of social engagement on cardiovascular risk factors
WHELAN, BRENDAN JAMES; TIMONEN, VIRPI; KAMIYA, YUMIKO; KENNY, ROSE ANNE (2010)Background: This article provides new insights into the impact of social engagement on CVD risk factors in older adults. We hypothesized that objective (social participation, social ties and marital status) and subjective ... -
Divorce and Intergenerational Support: Comparing the Perceptions of Divorced Adults and Their Parents
TIMONEN, VIRPI (2012)Many studies have indicated that intergenerational support may be required when people separate from their spouse. However, the difference between the younger and older generation's experience of such intergenerational ... -
Early-life circumstances and later-life loneliness in Ireland
TIMONEN, VIRPI (2014)Purpose of the Study: This article examines the impact of early- and later-life circumstances on loneliness among people aged 65+ in Ireland. Design and Methods: Data are from the first wave of the Irish Longitudinal Study ... -
'Emergent Reconstruction' in Grounded Theory: Learning from Team-Based Interview Research
TIMONEN, VIRPI; CONLON, CATHERINE (2015)Constructivist grounded theory (CGT) methods render an interpretive portrayal, a construction of reality, strengthened when the process of construction is acknowledged. An Irish team study uses CGT to explore intergenerational ... -
Expanded but not regulated: Ambiguity in home care policy in Ireland
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Fifty plus in Ireland 2011: First results from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
NORMAND, CHARLES; BARRETT, ALAN; O'SULLIVAN, VINCENT; WHELAN, BRENDAN JAMES; O'REGAN, CLAIRE; MATY, SIOBHAN; KAMIYA, YUMIKO; SAVVA, GEORGE; LAYTE, RICHARD; MOSCA, IRENE; KENNY, ROSE ANNE; TIMONEN, VIRPI (Trinity College Dublin, 2011)The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) is a large-scale, nationally representative study of people aged 50 and over in Ireland. It is the most ambitious study of ageing ever carried out in Ireland and represents ... -
From the workhouse to the home. The historical origins and development of domiciliary care services for older people in Ireland
TIMONEN, VIRPI; DOYLE, MARTHA (2008)Purpose: Care of older persons in their own homes has in recent years received much attention in Ireland. The proponents of domiciliary care draw on both economic and quality of life arguments, many of which are identifiable ... -
'Grandparental agency after adult children's divorce
TIMONEN, VIRPI (Policy Press, 2012)This chapter focuses on grandparenting in families where members of the middle generation have divorced or separated. Grandparents’ roles in divorced and separated families range from intensive co-parenting to situations ... -
Grandparenting
TIMONEN, VIRPI (Routledge, 2015)Grandparenting is a dynamic family practice that varies over time and between cultural contexts, and is shaped by material and structural factors such as social class, demographic change, and the welfare state context. ... -
'Grandparenting in the twenty-first century: New directions'
TIMONEN, VIRPI (Policy Press, 2012)