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Qixin Cai
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Research Fellow @pennaging.bsky.social
ABD @RUC
PI @superagingasia.bsky.social
PI @futureagetechlab.bsky.social
Global Aging, Generations & Families, Longitudinal Data, Gerontechnology
https://www.aging.upenn.edu/
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karenguzzo.bsky.social
Mass deportation is decimating the segment of the health care workforce that cares for our older population, just as the number of Baby Boomers with high-acuity needs grows. wapo.st/4rPxlyX
The business of caring for older Americans is in a deepening crisis
Government funding cuts, caregiver shortages and immigration limits are adding new strains to an industry that’s already hard-pressed to meet demand.
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December 7, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Special Issue: Technological Advancement and Global Ageing in Digital Society: Opportunities, Innovations and New Practices, Asia Pacific Journal of Social Work and Development, Volume 35, Issue 4 (2025)
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https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rswd20/35/4
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December 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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pennaitech.bsky.social
Congratulations to our Innovation Fellow & PhD Student Oonjee Oh for receiving the first prize for her poster "Artificial Intelligence in Hospice Dementia Care: Perspectives of Hospice Staff & Family Caregivers" in the "Design & Implement AI Solutions" Category of the Sylvan M. Cohen Annual Retreat
December 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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kefanxue.bsky.social
New paper out in The British Journal of Sociology!🎉 @lsesociology.bsky.social

Based on my doctoral research on young carers in China, we explore children’s emotional labour and the moral tensions that shape their everyday caregiving experiences.

🔗 Open access: doi.org/10.1111/1468...
November 30, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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nhats-nsoc.bsky.social
NHATS/NSOC Webinar

Fri., Dec. 5, 2025 at Noon ET

Zhiyong Lin (UT San Antonio)
& Zhuoer Lin (University of Illinois Chicago)

The Role of Social Isolation and Dementia in Exacerbating Unmet Care Needs among Older Adults

Register: tinyurl.com/NHATSNSOCweb...
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November 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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drjenndowd.bsky.social
"Population ageing is also a testament to human progress: we live longer, healthier & safer lives than ever before. Demographic change is not merely a challenge to be managed, but also a success to be valued & an opportunity to be shaped." www.niussp.org/individual-a... @iussp.bsky.social
Beyond the “demographic winter” - N-IUSSP
In Italy, as elsewhere, population ageing seems destined to create a series of daunting difficulties. However, as the new e-book edited by Daniele Vignoli and Gustavo De Santis shows, with ... Read mo...
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November 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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create-center.bsky.social
🎉 Congrats to CREATE alum Dr. Tina Nie, Dr. Renato Ferreira Leitao Azevedo, Dr. Dan Morrow (Scientific Advisory Broad member) & PI Dr. Wendy Rogers for winning the Best Human Factors and Ergonomics in Healthcare Article Award! 🏆
Read: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40051587/ #ASPIREHFES #HFES
Developing feedback visualizations to support older adults' medication adherence - PubMed
Evidence-based and user-centered approaches were effective for developing visualizations about adherence performance feedback in the MEDSReM app and provided insight into how the app can be made easy to understand and use by older adults with hypertension, which will be evaluated in future effective …
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November 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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um-src.bsky.social
November's Coffee and Donuts with the SRC Director was hosted by the @d3center.bsky.social. Billie Nahum-Shani and Shiyu Zhang chatted with SRC director @umpamdk.bsky.social about adaptive interventions and the integration of human and mobile delivered approaches myumi.ch/qZxd4
Coffee with d3c
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
caiqixin.bsky.social
Professor Liu argues that changes in Chinese family life have entailed the adaptation and “re-serving” of traditional ideas and practices to produce a bricolage of modern and traditional elements.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Embedded Generations
An interconnected, nuanced, and nonlinear view of Chinese family life since 1949
press.princeton.edu
November 24, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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lseinequalities.bsky.social
💡 Our Perceptions of Inequality programme is advancing our understanding of how people view and react to inequality.

Highlights include:
🔴 An international workshop (May 2025)
🔴 Two special journal issues
🔴 A new PhD & ECR Visiting Programme

More on p.16 ⬇️
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November 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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gerontechnologist.bsky.social
'Smart Ageing in Urban China: Power, Markets and the Everyday Politics of Care' by Yi Yu
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Smart Ageing in Urban China
This book provides an in-depth study of community and home eldercare in modern China, examining its integration with urban community governance.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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ryomogi.bsky.social
I'm looking forward to speaking at @nestauk.bsky.social & @bitglobal.bsky.social on 26 November, diving into Japan’s approach to healthy ageing – and what the UK can learn.
Join me in London or online, alongside experts from Japan and the UK in health and social care: bit.ly/3XA1iVv
November 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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isspsurvey.bsky.social
🎉 Call for submissions for the 4th ISSP User Conference on Health and Healthcare!
🗓️ Date: November 24, 2025
🕧 Time: 12:30 – 16:30 CET
📌 Submission Deadline: October 20, 2025
📄 Details & guidelines: lnkd.in/e5-3dzwB
August 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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uvichealthresearch.bsky.social
🎉Congrats to six IALH Student Affiliates who presented at the Excellence in Graduate Research Symposium! Excellent job disseminating your work and building public speaking skills.👏

⭐ Heather Hollman
⭐ Matilde Cervantes Navarrete
⭐ Tara Cooper
⭐ Heather Kwan
⭐ Yanxin Xu
⭐ Emiko Osborne

#UVic #KT
November 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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mpidr.bsky.social
Call for Papers!

Submit your paper for the conference: 'Kinship Structures, Dynamics and Inequalities', taking place on 8 and 9 June 2026 @mpidr.bsky.social in Rostock organized by @demography.bsky.social, @iussp.bsky.social +coll.
Deadline: 21 January 2026
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/kinship-conference
November 6, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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pennaging.bsky.social
🆕Turbocharging Profits? Contract Gaming and Revenue Allocation in Healthcare

By PARC Research Associate Atul Gupta with Ambar La Forgia, Adam Sacarny

in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (Forthcoming)
Turbocharging Profits? Contract Gaming and Revenue Allocation in Healthcare
(Forthcoming Article) - Firms often exploit weaknesses in government contracts to boost revenues, yet little is known about how they allocate these funds. We study how hospitals allocated $3 billion…
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October 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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nhats-nsoc.bsky.social
New work using NHATS/NSOC data by Mina Hwang and Yeji Hwang in Geriatr Nurs:

Do different factors affect anxiety in persons with dementia based on their cognitive status?

Read the research: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40752284/
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October 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
caiqixin.bsky.social
Looking forward to this workshop.
pennaitech.bsky.social PennAITech @pennaitech.bsky.social · Oct 29
We are excited to partner with the Institute on Aging at the University of Pennsylvania for the Sylvan M. Cohen Annual Retreat on November 21, 2025 with the theme "Aging Reimagined: Innovation in the Era of AI." We have an exciting line up of speakers.

To register, click here:
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October 30, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Measuring the hidden costs of disadvantage: Biological aging and opportunity
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Measuring the hidden costs of disadvantage: Biological aging and opportunity
Biology shows that disadvantage can accelerate aging, undermining not only health, but also children’s chances in school, their future work, and overall well-being
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October 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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mpidr.bsky.social
Job Offer: PhD Student Position
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the
@mpidr.bsky.social +
@imprs-phds.bsky.social
invite applications for a 4-year PhD position. The studentship is not limited to specific topics. Apply until November 17!
www.demogr.mpg.de/en/career_61...
October 22, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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superagingasia.bsky.social
Welcome to join SuperAging in Asian Megacities (SAAM) Research Group! We invite researchers specializing in aging studies, public health, social policy, urban planning, and related fields—to join this initiative.
😊Please fill out the following form:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
October 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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In this article, @jadynpark.bsky.social et al find that emotionally arousing moments during a narrative are associated with heightened integration across functional brain networks, which in turn predict how well those moments are then remembered.
Emotional arousal enhances narrative memories through functional integration of large-scale brain networks - Nature Human Behaviour
Park et al. find that emotionally arousing moments during a narrative are associated with heightened integration across functional brain networks, which in turn predicts how well those moments are subsequently remembered.
www.nature.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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We are very happy to have the support of our peers.
October 14, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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😀Welcome to join SuperAging in Asian Megacities (SAAM) Research Group! If you are interested in joining, please fill out the following form.
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Welcome to join SuperAging in Asian Megacities (SAAM) Research Group
Asia's megacities, including Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Mumbai, are experiencing rapid population aging. In Tokyo, nearly 30% of the population will be 65 or older by 2025, whil...
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October 10, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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polizzan.bsky.social
✍️ Just out: Annette Baudisch & I delve into the formal demography of fertility, birth, & reproduction timing. 👶 We use methods from mortality research to summarize when in the parental life course children are born. 📆 1/n
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@sdu.dk @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @mpidr.bsky.social
Fertility, birth, reproduction: Connecting formal demographic frameworks
The conventional framework of fertility research conceptualizes childbirth from the mother’s perspective. From her perspective, birth is an uncertain and potentially recurring event. In contrast, t...
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October 7, 2025 at 12:51 PM