Workshop on Healthy Ageing and Adult Caregiving

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.