8:30 – 9:00 AM

9:00 – 9:20 AM

9:20 – 9:50 AM

Registration

9:50 – 10:50 AM

Session 1: Disability in a Global Context

Effects of Early-Life War Trauma and Subsequent Post-Traumatic Stress on Disability in Old Age Among Vietnamese Wartime Survivors, Zachary Zimmer, Mount Saint Vincent University.

Cross National Comparisons of Disability (ADL, IADL, Mobility) in Latin American Older Adults, Margarita Osuna, University of Southern California.

The Role of Ethnic Enclaves in Healthy Life Expectancy for Mexican Americans, Phillip Cantu, University of Texas Medical Branch.

Moderator: Saito Yasuhiko

10:50 – 11:20 AM

Coffee Break

11:20 – 12:20 PM

Understanding Sex and Gender Differences in Mortality and Longevity: Can Biomarkers Help? Eric Klopack, University of Southern California

Gender Differences in Healthy Life Expectancy: a Study using Health and Mortality Register data from Catalonia, Aida Solé-Auró, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

How Paradoxical Is The “Gender And Health Paradox?”, Marc Luy, Vienna Institute of Demography

Moderator: Rahul Malhotra

12:20 – 12:30 PM

12:30 – 2:00 PM

Group Photo

Lunch

2:00 – 3:20 PM

Educational Inequalities in Dementia Incidence and Healthcare Utilisation in Italy, Agostino Cristofalo, Sapienza University of Rome.

The Influence of Environmental Factors on Health Among Older Mexican Americans, Sadaf Milani, University of Texas Medical Branch.

Early Life Origins of Cognitive Health Inequalities in Brazil, Mateo Farina, University of Texas-Austin.

Sex Differences in the Relationship Between APOE-4, Cognitive Decline, and Dementia, Katrina Walsemann, University of Maryland.

Moderator: Yuan Zhang

3:20 – 3:50 PM

Coffee Break

3:50 – 4:50 PM

New Methods for Modeling Mortality with Repeated Cross-Sectional Data Without Observed Death Information, Scott Lynch, Duke University.

Discrete-Time Multistate Models and The Markov Assumption, Christian Dudel, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.

Decomposing a Sullivan Expectancy: An Indirect Incidence-Based Approach, Timothy Riffe, Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU) and Ikerbasque (Basque Foundation for Science).

Moderator: Enrique Acosta

4:50 – 5:00 PM

6:30 – 8:30 PM

Thursday May 23

9:00 – 10:00 AM

10:00 – 11:00 AM

Divergences in Life Expectancy in the Second Half of Life Between US and Other High-Income Countries: The Role of Cardiovascular Mortality, Octavio Bramajo, University of Texas Medical Branch.

Changes in the Modal Age at Death of Ageing- and Behaviour-Related Diseases in the US: A Multiple-Cause-Of-Death Approach, Jeroen Spijker, Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics.

Mortality in Europe and Daylight Saving Time Transition, François Herrmann, University of Geneva.

Moderator: Jean-Marie Robine

Exploration of Bone Density Transitions and Their Relationship to the Incidence of Sarcopenia, Carlos Márquez, Universidad de La Frontera, INTA, Universidad de Chile.

Risk Factors of Frailty in the Elderly Population: A Study Based on SHARE Data, Manuela Scioni, University of Padua.

Longitudinal Deprescribing in Skilled Nursing Facilities Promotes Prescription Reassessment in Older Adults, Katarina Sako, SUNY Upstate Medical University.

Moderator: Moisés Sandoval

11:00 – 11:30 AM

Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:30 PM

Cause-specific Decomposition of Short-term Mortality Disturbances: Application to the Analysis of Mortality Disturbances by Income Level across Countries in 2020, During the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Enrique Acosta, Centre for Demographic Studies (CED).

Arriaga Meets Kitagawa: Life Expectancy Decompositions Including Population Subgroups, Timothy Riffe, Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU) and Ikerbasque (Basque Foundation for Science).

New Challenges in Estimating Multistate Models, Nicolas Brouard, French Institute for population studies (INED).

Moderator: Hiram Beltrán-Sanchez

12:30 – 2:00 PM

Lunch

2:00 – 3:00 PM

Changes Over Time in Working Life Expectancy at Older Ages in Singapore: Comparison of Two Cohorts, Abhijit Visaria, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.

Working Life Expectancy Among Older Adults in the Philippines and Viet Nam, Yasuhiko Saito, Nihon University.

Socioeconomic Inequalities and Smoking-Related Differences in Healthy Working Life Expectancy: An Examination Using U.S. Population-based Estimates from the Health and Retirement Study at Age 50, Alessandro Feraldi, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.

Moderator: Aïda Solé-Auró

3:00 – 3:40 PM

The Burden of Osteoarthritis in Older Chileans, Cecilia Albala, Universidad de Chile.

Expansion of Morbidity in the United States, Solveig Cunningham, Emory University.

Moderator: Zachary Zimmer

3:40 – 4:00 PM

Coffee Break

4:00 – 5:30 PM

Friday May 24

9:00 – 10:20 AM

Projecting Mortality Trends by Cause of Death and Deprivation: Will Inequalities Widen in England, Andrés Villegas, School of Risk and Actuarial Studies and ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR), UNSW Sydney; Associate of the Colombian Actuarial Association.

Where Are People Dying the Most? Detecting Territorial Patterns of High Mortality Risk: A Case Study from Northeastern Italy, Pietro Belloni, University of Padova.

Ethnic Disparities in Mortality by Gender and Socioeconomic Status at Adult and Older Ages in Chile 2016-2023, Moises H. Sandoval, University of Chile.

Population Aging in Latin America: Well-Being and Health Inequalities Among Older Adults, Hiram Beltrán-Sanchez, University of California, Los Angeles.

Moderator: Mateo Farina

10:20 – 11:20 AM

Divergent Trends in Physiological Functioning and Cardiovascular Health Among Older U.S. Adults, Connor Sheehan, Arizona State University.

Personal Mastery at Older Ages is Associated With Higher Health Expectancy: A Longitudinal Study From Singapore, Rahul Malhotra, Duke-NUS Medical School.

Centenarians and Spatial Distribution of Exceptional Longevity in Mexico, Elder Lara-Castañeda, National Population Council of Mexico.

Moderator: Nicolas Brouard

11:20 – 11:50 AM

Coffee Break

11:50 – 12:50 PM

Longitudinal Association between Living Arrangements and Lonely Life Expectancy of the Chinese Older Adults, Jilei Wu, Institute of Population Research, Peking University.

Gender Differences in Living Arrangements and Mortality Among Brazilian Older Adults, Flavia Andrade, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Association Between Social Support Network, Gut Microbiome Diversity, and Mortality in a Sample of Long-Lived Individuals in Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica, Gilbert Brenes-Camacho, University of Costa Rica.

Moderator: Marc Luy

12:50 – 1:10 PM

1:10 PM