iäkkäällä

iäkkäällä is a Finnish adjective form that conveys the sense of being elderly or aged. It is the adessive singular form of the adjective iäkäs, which describes someone or something as advanced in age. The word is used to refer to people or populations distinguished by age, and it appears in contexts such as healthcare, sociology, journalism, and formal writing.

Grammatically, iäkkäällä follows the pattern of ordinary Finnish adjectives and forms the adessive singular, iäkkäällä, to indicate a state or location related to the elderly. Other case forms exist similarly to other adjectives (for example, iäkkäässä, iäkkään, iäkkäille, iäkkääseen, etc.), and the plural adessive form is iäkkäillä. The base adjective is iäkäs, meaning elderly or aged.

Usage notes: In everyday speech Finns more commonly use terms like vanha or vanhempi when referring to age. iäkkäs and its inflected forms, including iäkkäällä, tend to carry a more formal, neutral, or clinical tone and are frequent in official statistics, policy discussions, medical literature, and academic writing. They are appropriate for describing the elderly as a demographic group or in discussions about aging and related services.

See also: iäkäs, vanhuus, ikäihminen, ikävuodet.

Examples of usage: iäkkäiden potilaiden hoidon tarve kasvaa. iäkkäässä väestössä on monia terveysriskejä. These phrases illustrate the adjectival use to describe elderly people and aging-related contexts in Finnish prose and reporting.