The Gateway is at #PAA2024 ! Come visit us at booth 400 to learn more about the work we do to facilitate cross-national and longitudinal studies on #aging using the international network of #health and #retirement studies.
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Last week we hosted a Stress and Emotional Well-being webinar with UCSF Stress Measurement Network, which provided an overview of using #harmonized stress and emotional well-being measures in the Health and Retirement Study family of studies in #research .

Watch the recording here: youtube.com/watch?v=jXGWjn…

Join us Thursday, April 18th for our next LTC Seminar! Meghan Skira of UGA will present 'Genetic Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias: Cognition, Economic Behavior, and Clinically Actionable Information.'

Register at g2aging.org/ltcseminar

A study recently published in PNAS Nexus found that the interviewer effect on blood pressure measurements was small but statistically significant in IFLS, NIDS, and Longitudinal Ageing Study in India data.

Read here: doi.org/10.1093/pnasne…

📣 #ApplyNow Summer Institute on Ageing (June 3-7, 2024)

Join our #SummerSchool to have an interdisciplinary view of the recent advances in research on the ageing process.

🔶Application deadline: April 19, 2024
👉🏻shorturl.at/ABJQV

A study recently published in MDPI #Geriatrics found muscle strength slightly moderates the relationship between #depressive symptoms and cardiovascular events among middle-aged and older adults using data from Wave 8 of SHARE_MEA.
Read here: doi.org/10.3390/geriat…

📢The Gateway is looking for a project specialist to join our CESR #policy team! Candidates finishing Masters programs in #PublicHealth , public policy, #economics , or in other quantitative social sciences are encouraged to apply.
More info: tinyurl.com/y87n4jz9

An article published in BMJ Global Health using RTI-COVID data found that during later stages of the pandemic, symptoms of poor mental health worsened after subsequent waves of infection in middle-aged or older adults.

Read here: gh.bmj.com/content/9/1/e0…

A new article written by our team is now available on Oxford Academic. Using LASI-DAD and RTI-COVID data, the authors found lower #cognition and #dementia pre #COVID19 were associated with worse mental health during later stages of the pandemic.

Read here: doi.org/10.1093/gerona…

Swing by booth 400 to visit Gateway to Global Aging Data Gateway to Global Aging Data during #PAA2024 in Columbus! populationassociation.org/paa2024/exhibi…

📢The Gateway is looking for a #programmer analyst to join our CESR team! Candidates finishing Masters programs in #epidemiology , #biostatistics , #economics , or in other quantitative social sciences are encouraged to apply. More info: tinyurl.com/2u4tejnu

Join us on 4/2 for the Stress and Emotional Well-being webinar hosted in conjunction with the UCSF Stress Measurement Network to learn about using #harmonized stress and emotional well-being measures in the Health and Retirement Study family of studies.

Register here: tinyurl.com/2ukbatuw

Watch a recent presentation Rich Jones of Brown University gave to the #HCAP group on Mild #Cognitive Impairment ( #MCI ) and how various definitions have been operationalized in different areas of #research .

Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=pI0SJJ…

We're pleased to announce a new data release for Longitudinal Ageing Study in India! This new data contains imputations of #dementia status for respondents who did not participate in the LASI-DAD.

Download here: g2aging.org/lasi-dad/downl…

A study just published by PLOS ONE found the weighted prevalence of mild and major neurocognitive disorder in LASI-DAD using the DSM-5 criteria to be 17.6 and 7.2%, respectively. The criteria were concordant with Clinical #Dementia Ratings.

Read at: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

New to using #HRSData ? Sign up for our 2024 summer workshop introductory course! hrs.isr.umich.edu/news/general-a…

Join us on Thursday, February 15th for our next LTC Seminar! Helena M. Hernandez-Pizarro of UPF Barcelona will present 'Unravelling Hidden Inequities in a Universal Public Long-Term Care System.' 8 AM PT | 11 AM ET | 5 PM CET

More info & register at g2aging.org/ltcseminar

We are excited to announce the launch of the Gateway's new #Environmental #Exposome Dashboard! This site showcases the #harmonized environmental measures we are linking to survey #data from the Health and Retirement Study International family

Visit our new site at exposome.g2aging.org

#GSA2024 Submit abstracts for our
Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Symposium “Health Impacts of the Social and Physical Environment in Global and Cross-National Studies.' We're accepting abstracts using our harmonized #data till Feb. 26. More info here: tinyurl.com/2hwddcsp #healthresearch