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Workshop on Healthy Ageing and Adult Caregiving

Co-organised by the Ageing and Health Incentives Lab (AHIL) at LSE & the Population Aging Research Center (PARC) at UPenn


October 25-26, 2023 (Online)

We are pleased to invite submissions for a Workshop on Healthy Ageing and Caregiving, examining questions on the economics, demography and policy in high-, middle- and low-income settings.

Population ageing is profoundly transforming societies across the globe, implying growing -- and often unmet -- demands for caregiving for older persons through families, communities, and private and governmental institutions. Yet tremendous variation exists in how families, societies and governments have responded to this challenge, within high-income countries and across the socioeconomic development spectrum. Challenges for societies range from facilitating healthy ageing, thereby allowing individuals to live productive and independent lives until advanced ages, to understanding the financial and wellbeing consequences of population ageing and creating sustainable social support systems for a growing older population. Covid-19 has highlighted the additional strains that an unexpected rise of infectious diseases can provide for caregiving systems in ageing societies, and a growing body of comparative research has highlighted the diverse trajectories of individual and population ageing in high-, middle and low-income countries and the complexity of the required health systems and social responses to population ageing across the globe.

 This workshop will focus on the intersection between healthy ageing and caregiving, including discussions of the effects of (un)healthy ageing on later life behaviours, intergenerational interactions, labour markets, family caregiving, non-family support for older persons, as well as health, household and financial decisions of care at old age.

Research from high-, middle- and low-income contexts is suitable, as are comparative caregiving studies across ageing societies.

Application & Selection Process

*The Call for submission of abstracts closed on 31 July 2023. 

The proposal would be in the form of an academic abstract and will be reviewed by a panel of academic experts.

Successful applicants will be notified by 1 September 2023 and will be invited to submit a longer paper, outlining in detail their proposed presentation.

To apply for participation in the Workshop on Healthy Ageing and Adult Caregiving please send your proposal via e-mail to n.raut@lse.ac.uk

Key themes

  • Predicted health, morbidity, and mortality and the demand for caregiving
  • Demographic shifts impacting demand/supply of formal and informal caregiving
  • The caregiving workforce
  • Caregiving decisions of families and communities
  • Intergenerational family and non-family transfers
  • Behavioural Economics of caregiving
  • Mental health and long-term care
  • Financing long-term care
  • Employment and long-term care
  • Wealth and long-term care
  • Technological change and caregiving
  • Policy interventions and social programs to alleviate the unmet caregiving demands in ageing societies
  • Diverse patterns of ageing and caregiving across societies

Organisers and Keynote speaker

Joan Costa-Font, LSE

Tiziana Leone, LSE

Nilesh Raut, LSE

Norma B. Coe, University of Pennsylvania

Hans-Peter Kohler, University of Pennsylvania

Keynote: Courtney Van Houtven, Duke University

Workshop Programme

The workshop programme is available here.

 

       

 

 

 

 

 

 

Co-organisers:

LSE Health

 Ageing and Health Incentives Lab

University of Pennsylvania

Population Aging Research Center

Keywords:  caregiving, healthy ageing, family care, intergenerational transfers, old age health, old age health shocks, global ageing. 

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Check out the Programme

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