2016 Activities and News

SLLS in Bamberg, October 5-8, 2016

Researchers from the SIA-project presented their research at a symposium during the sixth annual conference of the Society for Longitudinal and Life-course Studies (SLLS) in Bamberg, Germany, October 5-8, 2016

Inequalities in Ageing and Retirement
Convenor & Chair: Johan Fritzell, Stockholm University, Sweden

Health and Retirement Age: Investigating Birth Cohort and Gender Differences in Sweden
Harpa Sif Eyjólfsdóttir, Stockholm University, Sweden

Retirement – The Great Equalizer: Socioeconomic Status, Gender and Health
Maja Weemes Grøtting, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway

Retirement for Better or Worse?
Carin Lennartsson, Stockholm University, Sweden

Who Benefits From Retirement? Socio-Economic Differences in Behavioural Change
Neda Agahi, Stockholm University, Sweden

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June

23rd Nordic Congress of Gerontology (NKG) will be held June 19-22 in Tampere, Finland.
Researchers from Social Inequalities in Ageing will present their research during a symposium and with posters.

Symposium at the NKG Conferance

Social change and health inequalities in old age
Symposium organizer: Stefan Fors
Presentations by Linda Enroth, Maja Weemes Grøtting, Charlotte Juul Nilsson, Stefan Fors

Presentations

Early life circumstances and physical performance in late midlife
Gitte Lindved Petersen, Erik Lykke Mortensen, Naja Hulvej Rod, Theis Lange, Jolene Lee Masters Pedersen, Rikke Lund

Intergenerational effects of body size on inflammation among offspring in late middle age
Jolene Masters Pedersen, Erik Lykke Mortensen, Rikke Lund

Social relations, loneliness and physical capability
Rikke Lund, Marie Pil Jensen, Jørgen Holm Petersen, Jelena Laban, Charlotte Juul Nilsson

Does socioeconomic position modify the effect of education to preventive home visitors on mobility limitations in older people?
Charlotte Juul Nilsson, Anne Friis Krarup, Volkert Siersma, Mikkel Vass, Kirsten Avlund

Time trend in Alzheimer diagnoses and the association between geographical distance to an Alzheimer clinic and Alzheimer diagnoses: A Danish nationwide study
Terese Sara Høj Jørgensen, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Gunnar Gislason, Charlotte Andersson, Ellen Holm

Posters

Health and retirement: Investigating birth cohort and gender difference
Harpa Sif Eyjólfsdóttir, Neda Agahi, Johan Fritzell & Carin Lennartsson

Socioeconomic differences in mobility impairment and psychological distress over the life course – do inequalities increase or level out?
Neda Agahi, Stefan Fors and Benjamin Shaw

Stressful social relations, social support and low grade inflammation
Rikke Lund, Signe Hovmand Nørgaard, Else Foverskov, Per Kragh Andersen, Charlotte Juul Nilsson

The next SIA steering group meeting will also take place in Tampere during the conferance on June 20.

2015

July

The SIA-project officially starts July 1st, 2015, according to the main contract with NordForsk.
http://ki-su-arc.se/agreement-on-29-msek-to-sia-project-signed/

 October

SIA-project´s 1st Steering committee meeting will be held (Skype), October 27, 2015

Kick-off for the health and welfare programme, October 22, 2015

December

Kick-off meeting in Stockholm, December 14-15, 2015