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areas, as experienced by both care receivers and care providers. Elsewhere in this project, oldest old people describe
their experiences. Findings in one sub-study show that nurses still use subtle colonialism techniques in
their relationships with old south Sami people [1]. A second sub-study showed that being an oldest old man living
alone in a rural area could be interpreted as being in a struggle between a dependent existence and a desire to
be independent [2]. The third paper implied that being an oldest old woman living alone in a rural area meant
living in the intersection between embracing the present in solitude and fearing the future with additional declining
health