EQualCare: Alone but connected? Digital (in)equalities in care work and generational relationships among older people living alone ; white paper

Miranda Leontowitsch; Rafaela Werny; Smilla Henning; Frank Oswald; Charlotta Niemistö; Hanna Sjögren; Jeff Hearn; Aivita Putnina; Ilze Mileiko; Camilla Malm; Marcus Andersson; Clary Krekula

doi:10.21248/gups.70657

EQualCare: Alone but connected? Digital (in)equalities in care work and generational relationships among older people living alone ; white paper

Miranda Leontowitsch^*
, Rafaela Werny
, Smilla Henning
, Frank Oswald
, Charlotta Niemistö
, Hanna Sjögren
, Jeff Hearn
, Aivita Putnina
, Ilze Mileiko
, Camilla Malm
, Marcus Andersson
, Clary Krekula

^*Corresponding author for this work

Management and Organisation, Helsinki

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Abstract

This white paper is published on the completion of the project “Alone but connected?
Digital (in)equalities in care work and generational relationships among older people
living alone”, supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research,
the Research Council of Finland, the Latvian Ministry of Education and Science,
FORTE Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare and the funding organisations of the Joint Programming Initiative “More Years, Better Lives”. It
provides a synthesis of the main results of the project.

Original language	English

Place of Publication	Frankfurt am Main
Publisher	Frankfurter Forum für interdisziplinäre Alternsforschung, Goethe-Universität
Number of pages	27
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21248/gups.70657
Publication status	Published - 2025
MoE publication type	D4 Published development or research report or study

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

Keywords

514,2 Social policy
age
ageing
care
digitalisation
policy
Participatory action research

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Leontowitsch, M., Werny, R., Henning, S., Oswald, F., Niemistö, C., Sjögren, H., Hearn, J., Putnina, A., Mileiko, I., Malm, C., Andersson, M., & Krekula, C. (2025). EQualCare: Alone but connected? Digital (in)equalities in care work and generational relationships among older people living alone ; white paper. Frankfurter Forum für interdisziplinäre Alternsforschung, Goethe-Universität. https://doi.org/10.21248/gups.70657

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EQualCare: Alone but connected? Digital (in)equalities in care work and generational relationships among older people living alone ; white paper. / Leontowitsch, Miranda; Werny, Rafaela; Henning, Smilla et al.
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