Seminar: Living with dementia
Event details
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Tuesday 14 October 2025 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Description
We are delighted to virtually welcome Dr. Emilia Leinonen from the University of Jyväskylä to present a seminar on the ‘Living with Dementia‘ project.
Date: 14th October 2025
Time: 12:30-13:30 UK time
Online event, please click here to register using a Google form.
About the seminar
The rapidly growing number of people with dementia has created an urgent need to develop socially sustainable care and to engage persons living with dementia and their informal carers in defining it. In this project, a consortium of researchers from the University of Jyväskylä, the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare and Tampere University outline socially sustainable care for persons living with dementia and their informal carers. Based on qualitative and quantitative data, we examine what it means to live with dementia, what kind of social and institutional barriers and risks of care poverty are faced by persons with dementia and their family carers, and how their participation and agency should best be supported on the level of daily life, social participation and care services. In addition, we contribute to the theoretical research on the social relational model of dementia, which is used as a basis for definitions of socially sustainable care for persons with dementia.
About the presenter
Emilia Leinonen has a PhD in social and public policy. She works as a postdoctoral researcher and coordinator in the Centre of Excellence in Research on Ageing and Care at the University of Jyväskylä and is an affiliated researcher at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She is also working in the Living with dementia -project. Her main research interests include care, temporalities, spaces, identities, housing, critical dementia and disability studies, and the interplay between policies and the everyday lives of older persons.
Emilia’s profile page: https://www.jyu.fi/en/people/emilia-leinonen
CoE AgeCare: https://www.jyu.fi/en/research/centres-of-excellence/centre-of-excellence-in-research-on-ageing-and-care
Living with dementia: https://www.muistisairaatyhteiskunnassa.fi/in-english
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