Mari Aaltonen
Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Mari Aaltonen
Mari Aaltonen (PhD in Gerontology, Adjunct Professor in Public Policy) currently works as a Chief Researcher at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL). Her work focus on aging, longevity, memory disorders and dementia, end of life care, health care, long-term care, health and social care policy, and informal care. She has done quantitative and qualitative research. Her specialty is the use of register-based data and administrative data in research. Currently she is a visiting researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences (Health Sciences) and Gerontology Research Center, Tampere University.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Countries | Finland; |
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Topics | Access to care; Ageing in place; Autonomy; Care Homes; Care inequalities; Care integration/ coordination; Care needs poverty and deprivation; Care trajectories; Dementia care and support; End-of-life care and LTC; Evaluation of LTC systems and services; Gender and care; Healthcare access in LTC; Living arrangements; Loneliness among older people; LTC Policy; LTC Systems; New models of care; Outcomes for unpaid/informal carers; Person-centered care; Prevention and rehabilitation and LTC; Relationship between LTC use and hospital use; Research gaps and priorities in LTC; Residential LTC services; Unmet needs; Unpaid / informal care; |
Methods | Analysis of administrative data; Assessment tool development; Longitudinal data analysis; Mixed methods; Panel data analysis; Qualitative studies; Quantitative data analysis; |
Role | Research; |
Interest Groups | Ageing and Place; Community-based approaches to dementia care; Long-Term Care Policy; |
ORC.ID | 0000-0002-6620-4968 |
GOOGLE SCHOLAR | https://scholar.google.fi/citations?user=8jIQZ54AAAAJ&hl=en |
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marisaaltonen |