• Balancing within various discourses - the art of being old and living as a Sami woman 

      Aléx, Lena; Hammarström, Anne; Norberg, Astrid; Lundman, Berit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2006)
      The aim of this part of the Umeå 85+ Study was to explore how indigenous women narrate their lives and their experience of being old as Sami women. Interviews with 9 old Sami women were analyzed using grounded theory. The ...
    • Experiences of well-being among Sami and Roma women in a Swedish context 

      Aléx, Lena; Lehti, Arja (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      Our aim was to explore the experiences of well-being and lack of well-being among middle-aged and older women belonging to two national minority groups in Sweden. Interviews from nine older Sami women and four middle-aged ...
    • Resilience among old Sami women 

      Aléx, Lena (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      There is lack of research on old indigenous women’s experiences. The aim of this study was to explore how old women narrate their experiences of wellbeing and lack of wellbeing using the salutogenetic concept of resilience. ...