Hello you and welcome to join our journey to “keep up with the elderly”! We are 3 social service students diving into hot topics concerning the elderly and learning what life is like in an elderly home. Hopefully, we are able to gain as much knowledge on this topic to share with you readers! Our […]
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Behind the blog are three 2nd year Social Services students. We are using this platform to blog and raise awareness about seeking an asylum in Finland and to discuss the Finnish asylum policy. Asylum is a legal process that allows anyone who feels their life is in danger in his or her home country to seek refuge in a safer country.
Alienated – Introduction Read More »
All our blog posts written in Maria’s or Joonatan’s point of view are partly based on the interview we did with our working life representative “I haven’t been able to go anywhere in soooo long time. My mom says it’s not just because of my illness anymore but also because there is this other disease called corona that has made many people sick. She seems pretty stressed about
Informal Care – Child’s perspective Read More »
All our blog posts written in Maria’s or Joonatan’s point of view are partly based on the interview we did with our working life representative ”Corona has affected our, and everybody’s lives greatly, but in different ways. Generally, people have had to change their methods of working, or at least be a lot more careful
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-The concerning rise in drug deaths- In an era where retrieving drugs can be more or less, as simple as an order from the internet, a delivery to your doorstep like pizza, getting your hands on drugs is easier than ever. Considering even this revelation alone, the boost in drug-related deaths might not come as
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Informal care, or omaishoitajuus, is when a person looks after a relative in need of special care. The most common situation is when a person ages to the point of not being able to take care of themselves anymore, and the spouse or other loved one takes the responsibility of being the caregiver instead of
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In this blog, we are going to tell you about refugees coming to Finland. How the process works from the beginning, when they were still in refugee camps and how they got the chance to come to Finland, etc. The main subjects we will focus on in the blog are:
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We are three second year students studying social services in Tikkurila’s campus. Our topic for this blog is informal care for children. We chose this topic because working with children is important to all of us and within all informal care cases, being caregiver to one’s own child is only 15%. Elderly informal care is
Hotel Sveitsi is a modern conference and experience center located in Hyvinkää. The hotel has 182 accommodation rooms and more than 30 different conference rooms. In addition to conference and accommodation services, you can also find Sveitsi swimming hall, BioRex Cinemas, FitPark Sveitsi fitness centre, beauty center Salon-Ki Sveitsi as well as Superpark for younger people and WayOut Sveitsi escape rooms, all under the same roof.
Hotel Sveitsi – Towards a safer future! Read More »
What you’re about to read is an open-minded exploration of the world of disabilities.We want information to be easily digestible for the general public.We bring the blog live to promote inclusion in the society and bring our contribution to de-stigmatisation of life with disabilities.Welcome to our blog!