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Gateway to Global Aging Data @g2aging.bsky.social · 22d

New on the Gateway blog: highlights from the Education, Aging & Global Health Conference 2025, where 50+ researchers explored how education policy shapes health outcomes.

Key themes & findings here: g2aging.org/blog/post/a7...

#Aging #HealthPolicy #EducationResearch #GlobalHealth

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Gateway to Global Aging Data @g2aging.bsky.social · Sep 3

As demand for long-term care rises, researchers are generating new evidence to guide policy. Our latest blog highlights a Health Economics special issue with 8 open access papers on caregiving, LTC insurance, home-based care, and more.

Read here: g2aging.org/blog/post/23...

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Gateway to Global Aging Data @g2aging.bsky.social · Aug 27

How do compulsory schooling laws shape long-term outcomes?

Our newest Gateway blog highlights our updated USA Compulsory Schooling Policy Details Document, a new and improved resource for studying policy impacts across generations.

Read the post: g2aging.org/blog/post/d6...

Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of diabetes in India: a nationally representative survey of adults aged 45 years and older

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Gateway to Global Aging Data @g2aging.bsky.social · Aug 8

New paper from the LASI team in the @thelancet.com GH: a study of Indian adults aged 45+ finds that 1 in 5 had #diabetes in 2019, highlighting the urgent needs in prevention, detection, and care — especially in developing regions of India.

Read more here: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Our findings emphasise the urgent need to scale up policies to better prevent, detect, manage, and control diabetes among middle-aged and older adults in India.

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Gateway to Global Aging Data @g2aging.bsky.social · Jul 29

The Gateway team is at #AAIC25! Come by booth 640 to hear about our tools and initiatives for #aging and #dementia researchers. Find us between 10:30am and 4:15pm, today and tomorrow. @alzassociation.bsky.social

Gateway to Global Aging Data @g2aging.bsky.social · Jul 28

Join us tomorrow, July 29, at @alzassociation.bsky.social #AAIC25 for Session 3-24-FRS-A: "Risk Factors and Biological Mechanisms for Cognitive Decline and Dementia in India"

Time: 2:00–3:30 pm
Location: Convention Center, Room 801

We'll share findings on #aging and #dementia in India.

Immigration, acculturation, and diabetes: A comparative study of diabetes prevalence among Asian Indian immigrants living in the United States and native-born populations in India and the United State...

Gateway to Global Aging Data @g2aging.bsky.social · Jul 21

A new paper using LASI and HRS data compares diabetes rates among Indian immigrants in the US, Indians in India, and the general US population — findings suggest cultural factors may help explain higher prevalence.

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Despite evidence that Indian immigrants in high-income countries have higher diabetes risk, few studies have directly compared Indian immigrants to bo…

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Gateway to Global Aging Data @g2aging.bsky.social · Jul 14

New Gateway-supported research: This @nature.com Aging article uses Harmonized US and UK data to study the pace of #aging, #healthspan, and lifespan in older adults. The work builds on a talk from our GSA workshop.

Read the article: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Pace of Aging analysis of healthspan and lifespan in older adults in the US and UK - Nature Aging

Adapting their Pace of Aging method across two population studies of older adults, Balachandran and colleagues find that a faster aging rate puts older adults at risk for early onset of disability and...

Insights into bridging disciplines and building measures from the Gateway Exposome Coordinating Center workshop - Nature Aging

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Gateway to Global Aging Data @g2aging.bsky.social · Jul 8

Our new meeting report from the GECC workshop highlights how researchers across disciplines are advancing #exposome and #aging research — by identifying gaps, setting data priorities, and planning for dissemination.

Read the full report @nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

This Meeting Report summarizes the 2025 Gateway Exposome Coordinating Center workshop, which brought together over 80 experts to shape a research agenda that bridges exposome science with Alzheimer’s ...

Gateway to Global Aging Data @g2aging.bsky.social · Jul 1

Read our newest blog post about the 2025 Gateway Writing Retreat at @ucl.ac.uk, which brought together researchers to work on manuscripts analyzing how exposures affect #aging-related outcomes within and between HRS-INS cohorts.
Read here: tinyurl.com/36848v5f

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Gateway to Global Aging Data @g2aging.bsky.social · Jun 27

Using data from a Gateway Hackathon, the paper, "Lifespan exposures to rural–urban conditions and later-life cognitive function," found that rural residence, esp. during childhood, is linked to poorer later-life #cognitive outcomes.

Read here: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Gateway to Global Aging Data @g2aging.bsky.social · Jun 25

The Gateway Exposome Coordinating Center and Alzheimer's & Dementia journal invite submissions for a special issue on the #exposome and #Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and AD-Related Dementias risk, resilience, and disparities.

Read the full call at: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...

Alzheimer's & Dementia Call for Papers: The Exposome and Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer’s Disease Related Dementias

Submissions open July 1, 2025. The submission deadline is December 31, 2025. All papers will undergo peer review and are subject to the standard author guidelines.

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Multinational evaluation of AnthropoAge as a measure of biological age in the USA, England, Mexico, Costa Rica, and China: a population-based longitudinal study - npj Aging

Gateway to Global Aging Data @g2aging.bsky.social · Jun 24

A new @nature.com NPJ aging study found a biological age metric and accelerated #aging predicted higher mortality risk and age-related health decline using Gateway #Harmonized HRS, @elsa-study.bsky.social, MHAS, CRELES, and CHARLS #data.
Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

npj Aging - Multinational evaluation of AnthropoAge as a measure of biological age in the USA, England, Mexico, Costa Rica, and China: a population-based longitudinal study

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Introduction to the Harmonized HRS Life History Data. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Gateway to Global Aging Data @g2aging.bsky.social · Jun 19

The Gateway HCAP team had the opportunity to participate in the Center for Effective Global Action's Africa HCAP meeting in Nairobi last week — thanks to all who made it a productive and insightful gathering!

Gateway to Global Aging Data @g2aging.bsky.social · Jun 16

Join us on Thursday, June 19, for the "Introduction to the Gateway Harmonized HRS Life History Data" webinar, which will provide an overview of the Gateway Harmonized Life History Mail Surveys and show examples of analysis using the data.
Register here: tinyurl.com/yppmb2ce

This webinar will provide an introduction for researchers interested in conducting sequenced life history research using the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Utilizing the Gateway to Global Aging Da...

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Gateway to Global Aging Data @g2aging.bsky.social · Jun 13

The workshop was followed by the Institute’s annual lecture, delivered by Michelle Dyson, Director General of Adult Social Care, who discussed the role of technology in social care, its impact on the care workforce, and opportunities to provide more effective support.

Gateway to Global Aging Data @g2aging.bsky.social · Jun 13

This week, in collaboration with @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, the Gateway hosted a workshop to discuss how social care data could be leveraged to inform long-term care policymaking, with presentations from the @cpeclse.bsky.social, @elsa-study.bsky.social, @giacomopasini.bsky.social and more.

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Gateway to Global Aging Data @g2aging.bsky.social · Jun 12

A team of researchers across the HRS-INS met in London this week for the Spring 2025 Gateway Writing Retreat to make progress towards manuscripts analyzing environmental exposome data from individual cohorts & cross-country comparisons.

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Gateway to Global Aging Data @g2aging.bsky.social · Jun 2

Call for papers! @Nature_NPJ #Dementia is seeking submissions on studies assessing and validating tools used to evaluate #cognitive #aging in older adults globally. The deadline for submission is January 28th, 2026.

More info here: www.nature.com/collections/...

This collection invites original papers informing the development and validation of assessment methods related to cognitive health in diverse aging populations globally.

Associations between oral health measures and cognitive function in middle aged and older Indian adults - Scientific Reports

Gateway to Global Aging Data @g2aging.bsky.social · May 23

A recently published article in @nature.com's Scientific Reports found that tooth loss was associated with poorer #cognitive function in the middle-aged and older Indian population using LASI #data.

Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Scientific Reports - Associations between oral health measures and cognitive function in middle aged and older Indian adults

Chapter 2: The Rise of the Silver Economy: Global Implications of Population Aging

Gateway to Global Aging Data @g2aging.bsky.social · May 14

Check out the World Economic Outlook by International Monetary Fund, which uses our harmonized #data in their evaluation of the economic impact of global population #aging and provides policy recommendations to promote labor force participation among the aging population.

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Abstract The latest World Economic Outlook reports a slowdown in global growth as downside risks intensify. While policy shifts unfold and uncertainties reach new highs, policies need to be calibrated...

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Gateway to Global Aging Data @g2aging.bsky.social · May 12

Join us Thursday, May 15th for our next #LTC Seminar!
Jun Li of @syracuseu.bsky.social will present, "Wage Pass-Through Policies, Direct Care Worker Compensation, and Labor Supply in the Home Health Care Sector."

Register at g2aging.org/ltcseminar

Examining Longitudinal Relationships between Social Support and Strain in Relationships with Children and Older Adults’ Cognitive Functioning - Jennifer Caputo, Linda Waite, Kathleen A. Cagney, 2025

Gateway to Global Aging Data @g2aging.bsky.social · May 8

A new study using @hrsisr data finds that more support from adult children is linked to better later-life #cognitive function, while more strain has the opposite effect. @jofhsb.bsky.social

Read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Relationships with children are often highly salient to older adults and can be characterized by both social support and strain. Although research suggests that...

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