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Please join us TODAY for the hybrid PARC Aging Chat!

🧠 The ADRD Biomarker Pilot Project

with @ilianakohler.bsky.social & Corey T. McMillan

March 6th from 12-1 pm in 403 McNeil (PSC Commons) & on Zoom (code is in the image)

See details: https://www.aging.upenn.edu/events/parc-aging-chats

The Lancet Commission on a citizen-centred health system for India India stands at a pivotal moment in its journey towards universal health coverage—a crucial component of the government's Viksit Bharat vision to elevate it to the status of a developed country by 204...

🎉Congratulations to LDI Fellow @atulllguptaa.bsky.social and fellow members of Lancet Commission on a Citizen-Centred Health System for India on the publication of their evidence-based recommendations for advancing the country’s health system toward universal health coverage! bit.ly/3ZHbFrV

Happy Chinese New Year!

Chin & Miller, in “Health, Wealth & Racial Welfare Gaps Among Older Americans,” find that much of the gap is determined by age 60 initial conditions & suggest that policies to close “gaps in late life may be more efficient if targeted earlier in the life cycle." read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

Negotiating Dance Dramaturgies of Aging
NANAS Intersectional Age Studies Seminar with Dr. Nanako Nakajima
🗓 Monday, Feb 23, 2026
⏰ 5:00–6:00pm PT
📍 Zoom

#ubc #healthyaging

In “A Profile of Great-Grandparenthood in the U.S.,” R. Margolis & A. Verdery find that rates of great-grandparenthood for older cohorts are stable bc of ↑ life expectancy & postponed fertility, but rates for younger cohorts are lower. @westernu.ca @pop.psu.edu read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

How are temporal physical activity (PA) patterns associated with Alzheimer's risk?

New research in A&D demonstrates:
🟣Lower complexity of daily PA was linked to poorer cognition
🟣Early dementia may reduce complexity of activities
#AlzResearch

alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The Risk of Compressed Modernity The Risk of Compressed Modernity, Focusing on South Korea and other Asian countries, this book presents a critical account of compressed modernity and its key structural risks. These include endemic p...

Book Detail www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Developing a Multi-Agent AI System for Explaining Lab Results to Older Adults YouTube video by PennAITech

Learn more about our Year 5 Pilot Awardee Dr. Zhe He from Florida State University and his project "Developing a Multi-Agent AI System for Explaining Lab Results to Older Adults" here:

youtu.be/BpOhl3i2PY8?...

Call for Interested Authors | Thematic Issue on Environmental Health, Aging, and Public Policy

The deadline for applications for the Shannex Graduate Scholarship in Aging and Nutrition is approaching. January 31 is the deadline for Applied Human Nutrition and February 15 for Aging and Family Science. www.msvu.ca/shape-the-fu...

Listen to Dudley Poston. He knows what he’s talking about.

Apply to attend the Summer Data Immersion Program hosted by the Michigan Center for Contextual Factors in Alzheimer's Disease

The application portal is now open for the 2026 Summer Data Immersion Program, hosted by the Michigan Center for Contextual Factors in Alzheimer's Disease, using #PSIDdata. Join us at @umisr.bsky.social in May. #Umich #AcademicSky #PSID

Apply by Feb. 2: myumi.ch/mRWPj

📣Calls of Abstracts‼️Second International Workshop on Life Course Analysis
Theory, methods, & applications
📅August 18-19, 2026
🗺️Hertie School, Berlin
https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/calendar_1921/second_international_workshop_on_life_course_analysis_14953
Christian Dudel Carla Rowold

The Age of Scientific Wellness: Translating AI-Driven Insights into Human Healthspan YouTube video by PennAITech

If you missed our January webinar with Dr. Nathan Price from the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, you can watch the recording on our YouTube Channel here:

youtu.be/rInqd-YSQNY?...

Volume 62 Issue 6 | Demography | Duke University Press

In the Dec issue: commentaries, 3 notes, 15 articles & an acknowledgment of reviewers. Includes research on deportation & Latino segregation, dementia burden in China, racial disparities in obesity, union formation & religious boundaries, LARCs & FP goals & more. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/i...

New #DADM Special Issue is Live!

Objective measures of instrumental activities of daily living and neuropsychiatric symptoms in aging and early-stage Alzheimer's disease (non-cognitive)

Explore the full collection here: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social UMKelloggEye affiliate Kenneth M. Langa Joshua Ehrlich in BMC Public Health

Validation of cognitive and psychosocial tools in Kenya: findings from the LOSHAK feasibility pilot

myumi.ch/2reVb

We are looking forward to seeing you at #PAA2026 in St. Louis, Missouri, next May for a full and rigorous scientific conference! Registration is now open! buff.ly/Ro4j9s0

Upcoming RCCN Webinar! In this webinar, the speakers will discuss how potential bias in the data used to train AI models can potentially negatively impact outputs, and how to address data bias. Learn more and register here: bit.ly/440SQ5C

Please join us for the hybrid PARC Aging Chats in Spring 2026!

We have an exciting lineup of speakers & topics!

2/2 Hospice Care
3/6 The ADRD Biomarker Pilot Project
4/6 The Growing Issue of Homelessness/Housing Insecurity & Aging

See details: https://www.aging.upenn.edu/events/parc-aging-chats

Please read the December 2025 Penn Population Studies Newsletter, ushering us into the new year.

Contents include:
📚 Publications
📒 New Working Papers
🏆 Awards & Accolades
📅 Events
🎥 Colloquia Videos

https://mailchi.mp/pop/december-2025-newsletter

Long-term care is an expensive problem for older adults, their caregivers, and the broader health care system.

How did we reach this point—and what policy solutions could chart a better path forward?

Check out the latest #PolicyBrief from LDI. https://bit.ly/3MriUka

Alice Tang - University of California, San Francisco Alice Tang is on Forbes' 2026 30 Under 30 - Science list. Read more about Alice Tang, their experience, their asset summary, and more here.

Congrats Alice Tank on being a Forbes 30 Under 30 - Scientist! www.forbes.com/profile/alic... "Tang is using AI computational tools to understand & diagnose complex diseases like Alzheimer's..." @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social @ucsfmac.bsky.social @ucsfmedicine.bsky.social

Another highly cited article from JMF's 2020 Decade in Review: "Pathways to Parenthood in Social and Family Contexts: Decade in Review, 2020": tinyurl.com/2rahers5 by @karenguzzo.bsky.social & @srhayford.bsky.social

#ThrowbackThursday #TBT #FamilyScience #SocialSciences #SocialScienceResearch

How does life course exposure to contextual disadvantage accelerate biological aging? The role of psychological symptoms AbstractObjectives. Recent research has found that life course exposure to contextual socioeconomic disadvantage may accelerate biological aging, providing

Christina Kamis, Wei Xu, Amy Schultz, Joseph Clark, Michal Engelman, and Kristen Malecki published "How Does Life Course Exposure to Contextual Disadvantage Accelerate Biological Aging? The Role of Psychological Symptoms" in The Journals of Gerontology Series B. doi.org/10.1093/gero...

A graphic promoting the latest episode of "Dementia Matters". On the right are headshots of guest Dr. Deling He. On the left is text reading "New Podcast Episode" alongside the podcast logo. Underneath the logo is the episode title, "Talking TBI: The Impact of Traumatic Brain Injuries on Cognitive Decline"

🧠 Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) affect roughly 1 in 8 older adults in the U.S., impacting both short-term and long-term brain function. Dr. Deling He joins #DementiaMatters to discuss what TBIs are and the connections between TBI, speech pathology and cognition. Listen 🎧 go.wisc.edu/481khw

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Join our team as 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭. 🚀

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