European Interdisciplinary Council on Ageing

VIU Summer Institute on Ageing

June 4/9, 2018
Venice International University
San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy
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The VIU Summer Institute on Ageing offers a “state-of-the-art” program which will provide the students with a thorough understanding of the ageing process, ranging from recent advances of the medical and epidemiological literature, to an extensive treatment of the economic dimension (pensions and long term care) and of the sociological dimensions (intergenerational transfers, role of family networks). Special attention will be given to the use of large micro-data sets, such as SHARE (Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe) and sister surveys: the HRS, ELSA, TILDA, CHARLS.

This edition of the VIU Summer Institute will have a focus on Gender Issues in an Ageing Society

INTRODUCTION

The VIU Summer Institute on Ageing will:

  • provide students and trainees with a thorough understanding of the ageing process, offering notions of the medical and epidemiological recent literature to the socio-economic advances in this research area;
  • enhance the multidisciplinary approach for researchers who work on ageing;
  • provide “hands on” experience on the micro data-sets;
  • increase the mobility and the interconnectivity of PhD students, researchers, teaching staff and policy makers, hence favouring the creation of research networks.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
  • participants will gain special insight into the recent advances of the ageing process from a theoretical and practical point of view and will be able to perform impact evaluation (e.g. health care costs);
  • participants will learn how to use the data in this area of research;
  • participants will be offered the opportunity to share their ideas in a poster-sessions and during social events;
  • participants will develop transversal competences based on a multidisciplinary approach. Specific training sessions, such as “mentoring sessions”, will take place;
  • policy makers and people involved in public policy and public services will be able to learn how to connect issues between the health dimension of ageing and the socio-economic dimension of ageing.
INFO

CONGRESS VENUE
VIU – Venice International University
San Servolo Island
30133 Venice – Italy
Tel. (+39) 041 2719511
Fax (+39) 041 2719510
Web www.univiu.org

SPONSORS
This event is supported by Ca’ Foscari University through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with the project “Integrating Information about Ageing Surveys: Novel Integration of Contextual Data to Study Late-Life Cognition and Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia and Dementia Care”; PTE Federal Award No: 2R01AG030153-17; Subward No: SCON-00003464 PI: Jinkook Lee – University of Southern California.