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GBA Future AgeTech Lab
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GD-HK-MO GBA Future AgeTech Lab is a cross-border hub uniting Guangdong, Hong Kong, and Macao to develop smart technologies and research for healthy, active aging through innovation, collaboration, and policy integration.
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“Does Changing Late-Life Activity Impact Older Adults’ Help to Their Adult Children?”: Siren & Amilon used Danish Longitudinal Study of Ageing data & found that a shift to more active aging & extended working “does not weaken social connectedness btw generations.” read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
December 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Congrats Alice Tank on being a Forbes 30 Under 30 - Scientist! www.forbes.com/profile/alic... "Tang is using AI computational tools to understand & diagnose complex diseases like Alzheimer's..." @ucsanfrancisco.bsky.social @ucsfmac.bsky.social @ucsfmedicine.bsky.social
Alice Tang - University of California, San Francisco
Alice Tang is on Forbes' 2026 30 Under 30 - Science list. Read more about Alice Tang, their experience, their asset summary, and more here.
www.forbes.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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December 11, 2025 at 1:46 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
'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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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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Trainee spotlight! Dr. Shyleen Frost is currently as a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Alice Kane's lab. She is studying epigenetic patterns, including DNA methylation and histone modifications, and their relationship with frailty and sex differences in aging.
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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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
wol.iza.org
October 26, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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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