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CONTENTS

Introduction: Starting points for the study of ageing. Maija Könönen, Sinikka Vakimo, Anna Kinnunen

I REPLICATING AND CHALLENGING VIEWS ON OLD AGE

1 Old age and otherness. Horrible old babas as an archetype in Russian literature Irina Savkina

2 Escape routes from ageism and stereotypes of old age in Russian literature Jane Gary Harris

3 Transitions of ideas of dementia in time. Sinikka Vakimo

4 Dementia or senility? How we talk about dementing illnesses? Maija Könönen

II GRANDPARENTHOOD IN MOTION

5 Multiple grandparenthoods, changing grandfatherhood. Ilkka Pietilä, Hanna Ojala

6 Transnational babuškas. Grandmothers and the maintenance of family relations between Russian Karelia and Finland. Tatiana Tiaynen-Qadir

III FORMS AND LOCATIONS OF CARE

7 Key-actors of eldercare in today’s Russia. Oksana Parfenova

8 Old age in Finland. Well-being and scarcity of care. Lina Van Aerschot, Tiina Sihto

9 Worlds of institutional care. Co-existence and conflicts in a Petersburg carehome. Jelena Zdravomyslova, Alija Nizamova

IV CONSTRUCTING AGENCIES

10 Ageing men in local community. Elisa Tiilikainen, Hanna Ojala, Ilkka Pietilä, Marjaana Seppänen

11 Views of elderly Russians on sex and intimate life. Julija Zelikova

12 Steel ladies and activist grannies. Mediacultural transformations of ageing women. Hanna Varjakoski Changing old age? Perceptions and conclusions. Maija Könönen, Sinikka Vakimo

Endnotes

References and Literature

Contributors