The number of people living with dementia is increasing rapidly, and questions about organizing care and support in socially sustainable ways are extremely timely in society.
The SOREMO consortium focuses on studying the challenges related to inclusion, decision-making, and coping among people with dementia and their families, as well as the availability of adequate, high-quality services, and what we can do to promote them.
Goals
Researchers at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), together with researchers from the Universities of Jyväskylä and Tampere, investigate what socially sustainable care looks like for people with dementia.
The project studies:
- What is it like to live with dementia
- What social and institutional barriers and risks of inadequate services do people with dementia and their caregivers face
- How their inclusion and decision-making should be supported so that it is realized both in everyday life and in services.
The social scientific research goal is to develop a social-relational theory of dementia that can serve as a foundation for sustainable care.
Implementation
THL researchers primarily analyse THL’s registry data, particularly the RAI (Resident Assessment Instrument) database.
We also participate in analysing qualitative interview data collected by researchers from Tampere and Jyväskylä Universities.
Funding
Research Council for Culture and Society of the Research Council of Finland, Kone Foundation
Partners
University of Jyväskylä, Tampere University
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