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Background: A living will document is known to be an important tool for preparing for future care together with healthcare professionals. A living will supports an older person’s selfdetermination and autonomy. Only a ...

Aim: To describe long-term care (LTC) use in Finland and Sweden in 2020, by reporting residential entry and exit patterns including hospital admissions and mortality, compared with the 2018–2019 period and community-living ...

The ageing of society is a worldwide phenomenon, particularly in industrialised countries, like Finland. To tackle the challenges of swiftly rising healthcare and social welfare costs and a new type of demand for related ...

This paper contributes to the study of residents’ and civil servants’ transformative agency in urban development with the aid of the framework of cultural-historical activity theory. The aim is to ...

Previous studies have found a link between the social disadvantage of families and child welfare involvement. Through financial support, a range of psychosocial problems in the families (or their escalation) can be prevented, ...

The digitization of society creates both challenges and opportu-nities for prisons. Previous studies show that prisons’ digitization affects interaction between incarcerated people, prison culture and reduces recidivism, ...

Aims: This paper analyses the factors that influence home care employees’ intention to introduce robots. Background: The introduction of different kinds of care robots is a topical issue in elderly care now and in the ...

In the context of social work, the importance of social interaction and the client-employee relationship in helping the client and supporting their desistance from crime are highlighted issues. Disengagement from crime ...

In order to meet the needs of employers and to make students more employable Laurea University, Finland has developed an “experiential” educational model through project-based learning in English based around real business ...