Here you can read articles about the project’s publications.
Xu, W., Zechner, M., Viknaraj Sivabalan, T., Leng Low, L., Shon, C., Chen, H., Reuter, A., Turner, D., Tiilikainen, E., Kiyota, E. & Iwarsson, S. (2025). Towards evidence-based approaches to monitoring and evaluating age-friendly cities and communities: Reflections from the Western Pacific and Nordic Regions. Urban Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980251375852
Park, Y., Timonen, V. & Zechner, M. (2025). Four Dimensions of Sustainability in Long-term Care. Journal of Aging & Social Policy, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/08959420.2025.2568432
Vaalavuo, M., Holster, T., Skogberg, N., Kuusinen, H. (2025). Health care use as an aspect of immigrant integration? An analysis of health care cost convergence among new immigrants and natives in Finland. Journal of Migration and Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmh.2025.100386
Paukkeri, T. & Ravaska, T., (2026). Labour supply responses to reducing the risk of losing disability insurance benefits. Economica, 93(369), pp. 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.70005
Heikkurinen, P. & Uotinen, J. (2025). Sufficient Population? Checklist for a More Proper Discourse on the Degrowth of Human Numbers in Affluent Societies. In: Ruuska, T. & Nyfors, T. (eds) Sufficiency–From Growth and Overshoot to Enoughness. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. 226–251. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004746404
Kauppinen, T. & Nevanto, M. (2025). Regional Variation in the Association Between the Changes of the Old-age and Low-income Rates. Nordic Yearbook of Population Research, Vol 58 (2025): 1–26. https://journal.fi/nypr/article/view/161380/119346
Uotinen, J., Vaalavuo, M. & Martela F. (2025). Well-being and its distribution across age groups: an integral part of social sustainability in ageing welfare states. In: Vaalavuo, M. & Nelson, K. & Kuitto, K. (eds) Social Sustainability in Ageing Welfare States. Edward Elgar Publishing. 14–35. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035318377.00008
Juuti, T. & Kanninen, O. (2025). The fall in absolute intergenerational mobility: consequences for subjective well-being. In: Vaalavuo, M. & Nelson, K. & Kuitto, K. (eds) Social Sustainability in Ageing Welfare States. Edward Elgar Publishing. 78–97. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035318377.00011
Zechner, M. & Näre, L. (2025). Inequalities in social care as barriers to social sustainability: towards care justice. In:Vaalavuo, M. & Nelson, K. & Kuitto, K. (eds) Social Sustainability in Ageing Welfare States. Edward Elgar Publishing. 121–139. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035318377.00013
Kuitto, K. & Lee, K. (2025). How to make extending working lives in ageing welfare states socially sustainable. In: Vaalavuo, M. & Nelson, K. & Kuitto, K. (eds) Social Sustainability in Ageing Welfare States. Edward Elgar Publishing. 140–165. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035318377.00014
Vaalavuo, M. & Rask, S. (2025). Immigration: a necessity for economic sustainability, a challenge for social sustainability? In: Vaalavuo, M. & Nelson, K. & Kuitto, K. (eds) Social Sustainability in Ageing Welfare States. Edward Elgar Publishing. 186–206. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035318377.00016
Bridgen, P. & Saikkonen, P. (2025). Integrated sustainability: what is it and what are its implications for social care in ageing welfare states? In: Vaalavuo, M. & Nelson, K. & Kuitto, K. (eds) Social Sustainability in Ageing Welfare States. Edward Elgar Publishing. 229–249. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035318377.00018
Vaalavuo, M., Nelson, K & Kuitto, K. (2025). Social Sustainability in Ageing Welfare States. Edward Elgar Publishing. Open access.
Auvinen, T., Uotinen, J. & Vaalavuo, M. (2025). (Un)happy Together—The Interrelated Life Satisfaction of Older Couples. Soc Indic Res. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-025-03699-3
Kiviholma, S. & Karhunen, H. (2025). Labor Policies and Immigrant Employment. Journal of Economic Surveys. https://doi.org/10.1111/joes.70010
Goma, H., Tanaka, S., Matsuoka, T., Shimizu, H., Shimizu, S., Zen, Y., Adachi, E., Ishikawa, M. & Silventoinen, K. (2025). Cognitive performance from infancy to adulthood in Japan from 1998–2001 to 2014–2019: A study using the Kyoto Scale of Psychological Development. Intelligence 111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2025.101937
Riekhoff, A.-J., Kuitto, K., Möhring, K., & Palomäki, L.-M. (2025). A long arm of adversity? Financial hardship during the life course and income in retirement. European Societies 27(3): 545–579. https://doi.org/10.1162/euso_a_00007
Mathies, C., Karhunen, H. & DesJardins, S.L. If You Charge Them, Will They Come? The Effect of Levying Tuition Fees on International Students. Res High Educ 66, 34 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-025-09855-5
Salmensuu, O., Hyttinen-Huotari, V., Isotalo, J., Rijken, M. Linnosmaa, I., Kaarakainen, M. (2025). Systematic Review of Effects of Medication Dispenser Use by Home-Dwelling Older Adults. Nursing Research. https://doi.org/10.1097/NNR.0000000000000824
Åkerman, S., Nyqvist, F., Zechner, M., Nygård, M., & Olofsson, B. (2025). Using the Andersen Behavioural Model to explore formal support use among older informal carers in Finland and Sweden. International Journal of Social Welfare, 34(2), e70000. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.70000
Sihto, T., & Zechner, M. (2024). Revisiting the Concept of Gender Contract. NORA – Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2024.2431059
Vaalavuo, M., Rask, S. (2024). Earnings development among new immigrants in Finland: does a native-born partner enhance economic integration? European Sociological Review, jcae038, https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcae038
Auvinen, T., Linnosmaa I. & Rijken, M. (2024). Do people’s health, financial and social resources contribute to subjective wellbeing differently at the age of fifty than later in life? Wellbeing, Space and Society, 7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2024.100219
Linnosmaa, I., Nguyen, L., Jokimäki, H. et al. (2024). Quality of life outcomes for informal carers of long-term care service users in Austria, England and Finland. Qual Life Res 33, 2477–2488. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-024-03711-2
Jøranson, N., Zechner, M., Silva, R., Korkmaz, Yaylagul, N. & Thygesen, H. (2024). A case study on experiences with integrated technologies in a care home for older adults. Geriatric Nursing, Volume 61, 121–128, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gerinurse.2024.10.059
Riekhoff, A.-J. & Kuitto, K. (2024). Educational Expansion as a Driver of Longer Working Lives? : Regression Decomposition Analysis of Changes in Labour Force Participation at Older Ages in Twenty-first Century Europe. Comparative Population Studies, 49. https://doi.org/10.12765/CPoS-2024-06
Ilmakunnas, I., Uotinen, J., Vaalavuo, M. (2024). Association Between Age and Subjective Economic Hardship Across the Income Distribution in Europe. Social Indicators Research, online 22 May 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-024-03351-6
Aaltonen, K., & Vaalavuo, M. (2024). Financial burden of medicines in five Northern European countries: A decommodification perspective. Social Science & Medicine, 347: 116799. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116799
Seittu, H.A.-M., Hujala, A. and Kaarakainen, M. (2024). Older patients’ experiences of person-centred integrated care: joint replacement surgery as a case. Journal of Integrated Care, 32:5, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1108/JICA-08-2023-0062
Zechner, Minna & Sihto, Tiina (2023). The concept of generational contract: A systematic literature review. International Journal of Social Welfare, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijsw.12636
Kyyrä, T. & Tuomala, J. (2023). The Effects of Employers’ Disability and Unemployment Insurance Costs on Benefit Inflows. Labour Economics, 85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2023.102434
Zechner, M. & Rossi, E. (2023). Narrated social distance: generational ties. In Begum, S., Harbinson, J.R., Naskali, P. & Zechner, M. (eds) Distance, Equity and Older People’s Experiences in the Nordic Periphery: Centering the Local. Routledge, London. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003280330
Begum, S., Naskali, P., Zechner, M. & Harbison, J. (2023). Introduction: The Multiple meanings of distance and the centrality of the periphery. In: Begum, S., Harbinson, J.R., Naskali, P. & Zechner, M. (eds) Distance, Equity and Older People’s Experiences in the Nordic Periphery: Centering the Local. Routledge, London. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003280330
Begum, S., Harbinson, J.R., Naskali, P. & Zechner, M. (2023). Distance, Equity and Older People’s Experiences in the Nordic Periphery: Centering the Local. Routledge, London. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003280330
Hyttinen, V., Kortelainen, L., Rantsi, M., Jyrkkä J. & Linnosmaa, I. (2023). Impact of the publication of the Finnish Meds75+ database on the use of potentially inappropriate medications in older persons. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 89:10. https://doi.org/10.1111/bcp.15811
Riekhoff, A.J. (2023). Employers’ Retirement Age Norms in European Comparison. Work, Aging and Retirement. https://doi.org/10.1093/workar/waad015
Saikkonen, P. & Ilmakunnas, I. (2023). Reconciling welfare policy and sustainability transition – A case study of the Finnish welfare state. Environmental Policy and Governance, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.2055
Zechner, M. (2022). Economization of Care for Older Adults. In: Baikady, R., Sajid, S., Przeperski, J., Nadesan, V., Rezaul, I., Gao, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Problems. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68127-2_300-1
Gruber, Jonathan, Kanninen, Ohto & Ravaska, Terhi (2022). Relabeling, retirement and regret. Journal of Public Economics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2022.104677
Hoppania, Hanna Kaisa, Karsio, Olli, Näre, Lena, Vaittinen, Tiina & Zechner, Minna (2022). Financialization of Eldercare in a Nordic Welfare State. Journal of Social Policy https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279422000137
Vabø, Mia, Zechner, Minna, Stranz, Anneli, Graff, Lea & Sigurðardóttir, Sigurveig H. (2022) Is Nordic eldercare facing a (new) collaborative turn? Social Policy & Administration https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12805