Conference program
Wednesday, 14th May
9.00 Opening of the conference (Reves executive board & conference organizers)
9.15 Session 1: Ageing, Health, and Mortality Inequalities: Evidence from Finnish Registers Using Life Table Metrics
Moderator: Marja Jylhä
Pekka Martikainen: Social Inequalities in Health: Life Table Approaches to Research on Aging Populations Using Register-Based Data
Margherita Moretti: Widowhood lifespan and the evolution of widowhood expectancy in Finland over the last three decades
Kaarina Korhonen: Future Trends in Dementia Incidence and Mortality: Projecting the Burden of Dementia on Long-Term Care in Finland by 2040
10.30 Coffee and tea (posters)
10.50 Session 2: Social inequality in life and health expectancy
Moderator: Marc Luy
Emmanuelle Cambois: Trends health expectancies in France: to what extent the social disparities in healthy ageing have been reshuffled over the 2010’s?
Tianyu Shen: Educational Inequalities in Life Expectancy and Disabled Life Expectancy in the U.S.: An Intersectional Cohort Analysis by Race and Sex
Jilei Wu: Gender Differences based on Self-Rated Health Expectancies of Elderly among Provinces of China with a Decade Socioeconomic Development
David Sinclair: Disability Free Life Expectancy: Narrowing the gap between rich and poor
Mateo Farina: Education and Longevity in Older Brazilians: Uncovering Gender Differences in Mortality Patterns
12.20 Group photo
12.30 Lunch (posters)
13.30 Session 3: Mental health and frailty
Moderator: Aïda Solé-Auró
Silvia Loi: Understanding Differential Physical and Mental Health Trajectories of Refugees and Migrants
Stefan Fors: The effect of loneliness on depressive symptoms in the 65+ European population: A longitudinal observational study using SHARE data
Pauliina Halonen: The association between socioeconomic status and dementia in the oldest old – a time series analysis between 2001 and 2022
Yvanna Simon: Association between loneliness profiles and risk of dementia in the Paquid cohort
Anna Tirkkonen: Cognitive Performance in Late Midlife as a Predictor of Frailty over 17 Years: A Longitudinal Birth Cohort Study
15.00 Coffee and tea (posters)
15.30-16.45 Session 4: Methods
Moderator: Zachary Zimmer
Erika Banzato: Modeling multimorbidity: exploring diseases interactions and their connection to frailty outcomes
Nicolas Brouard: Challenges in estimating multi-state expectancies from large-scale cross-longitudinal surveys
Rustam Tursun-zade: A demographically motivated index of within-population health inequality
Pietro Belloni: Measuring frailty in the elderly: an indicator based on a combination of classifiers
18.00 Reception at the City Hall (Keskustori 10, 33200 Tampere)
19.30 Conference dinner at Restaurant Tampella (Kelloportinkatu 1, 33100 Tampere)
Thursday, 15th May
9.00 Session 5: Stagnation in life expectancy
Moderator: Sari Stenholm
Leah Abrams: Birth Cohort Contributions to Stalling U.S. Mortality Improvements
Hong Mi: Re-estimating Urban-Rural Disparities in Disability Life Expectancy Among Older Population in China Based on Bayesian Methods
José Andrade: Cohort mortality forecasts indicate signs of deceleration in life expectancy gains
Octavio Bramajo: Catching up with stagnation: cause-specific dynamics of change in life expectancy at age 65 in the United States, Canada and Latin America, 2000-2019
Andrew Stokes: The Role of Rising Obesity in the Stagnation of U.S. Life Expectancy
10.30 Coffee and tea (posters)
10.50 Session 6: Support systems and personalized care
Moderator: Pauliina Halonen
Pamela Herd: Burden Reduction in a Social Safety Net Program Reduces Mortality
Giampaolo Lanzieri: Developing European statistics on long-term care
Outi Mäenpää: Rehabilitation needs of persons living with dementia
Anne-Marie Mäkelä: The possibilities of home care clients with dementia influencing their care through goal setting
Puneet Kaur Chehal: The Long-Term Impacts of Medicaid Exposure in Early Childhood on Aging
12.20 Lunch (posters)
13.20 Session 7: Life and health expectancy across populations
Moderator: Mikaela von Bonsdorff
Aïda Solé-Auró: The Unequal Healthy Life Expectancy of men and women.
Rahul Malhotra: Association of sleep and nap duration with total life expectancy, and life expectancy with and without cardiovascular diseases among older adults: A longitudinal population-based study
Marc Luy: Extent of the health disadvantage of Roma people in Europe: Indirect estimations for 17 countries
Alessandro Feraldi: Healthy Working Life Expectancy: Measurements and Socio-Economic Inequalities
Milos Milovanovic: The Years Left Abroad: The impact of emigration on longevity in the Republic of Serbia
14.50 Coffee and tea (posters)
15.20 Session 8: Social inequality in health
Moderator: Linda Enroth
Madelin Gómez-León: Assessing Health Inequalities. Age and Cohort Trajectories Among Older Adults in Europe.
Sarah Åkerman: The role of socioeconomic resources for adhering to the “Blue Zone” lifestyle in contrasting regions in Western Finland and northern Sweden
Karine Pérès: Risk profiles for serious health events according to the first step of the WHO ICOPE approach
Gilbert Brenes-Camacho: Socioeconomic and institutional conditions associated to variance of age at death
Anastasia Lam: Health and wealth trajectories in childless families: how childlessness shapes cumulative inequalities over the life course
16.50 Bio break
17.00 George Myers honorary lecture
Moderator: Emmanuelle Cambois
Jean-Marie Robine: A journey through time over the past 80 years, from 1945 to 2025
18.15 General Assembly (Reves executive board)
Friday, 16th May
9.00 Session 9: Sociodemographic factors and morbidity
Moderator: Kaarina Korhonen
Nosraty Lily: Associations of migration-related and sociodemographic factors with functional mobility and depressive symptoms among midlife and older Russian-speaking migrants
Solveig Argeseanu Cunningham: Quantifying the Lifecourse of Multimorbidity: New Applications of Demographic Methods
Camille Ouvrard-Brouillou: Social vulnerability differently increases the risk of death in men and women: longitudinal analysis over 15 years in the Paquid Study
Emmanuelle Cambois: Gender- and social-specific contribution of chronic diseases to activity limitation in the 60+ population in France
Saara Marttila: Do epigenetic clocks predict future health outcomes in a middle-aged population, and how do they compare to traditional risk factors of cardiometabolic diseases?
10.30 Break
10.50 Session 10: Work, retirement and health
Moderator: Rahul Malhotra
Sari Stenholm: Association of behaviour-related health risk factors with working life expectancy in adults aged ≥50 years
Zachary Zimmer: Trends in productive life expectancy among older adults: An assessment of the expansion or contraction of productive aging
Anu Polvinen: Life course before and after receiving a fixed-term disability pension: an 8-year follow-up study
Thomas Arnhold: Exploring heterogeneities in cognitive functioning at older age: The role of employment histories across European welfare regimes.
Dorly Deeg: Work participation in times of rising state pension age: the decreasing role of health
12.20 Closing remarks (Reves executive board & next conference organizer)
12.30 Lunch
Poster presentations
Leah Abrams: How trends in working longer shape socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in healthy-working life expectancies in the United States
Florencia Bathory: Onset of depression among people with chronic diseases
Sherin Billy Abraham: Frequency and Predictors of Emergency Department Visits among the Oldest Old in Finland: the Vitality 90+ Study
Félix Blain: Healthy Working Life Expectancy across birth cohorts in the United States
Phillip Cantu: Differential Item Functioning of informant measures of cognitive functioning in the U.S. and Mexico
Laura Kananen: Predicting cardiovascular morbidity and mortality with SCORE2(OP) and Framingham risk estimates in combination with biological aging indicators
Anna Lahti: Associations between social vulnerability and functioning in older age, and the moderating and mediating role of optimism and self-efficacy
Marja Lönnroth: Experiences of Agency Among People with Dementia
Susanna Satuli-Autere: Risk factors predisposing to dementia in individuals with type 1 diabetes
Sini Stenroth: Adversity, perceived stressfulness, and resilience in older men and women – the role of socioeconomic status and functioning
Sara Suikkanen: Developing the customer journey and implementing the new ways of work in the health care and social services for older adults
Konsta Valkonen: Management of vascular risk factors and its association with cognition among older adults
Zixuan Wang: The Social Networks of Chronic Diseases
Jiao Zhang: The Construction and Empirical Research of Healthy City Indicator System from the Perspective of the Theory of Social Determinants of Health: Taking 54 Major Cities as Examples
Huiping Zheng: Decomposing Differences in Cohort Health Expectancy by Cause and Age with Longitudinal Data
Yan Zheng: Living longer in poorer health: Health expectancy in Israel between 2013 and 2022: a cross-national comparison with 15 European countries
Instructions for presentations
Oral presentation
The language of the meeting is English.
Oral communications will last in total 18 minutes, we recommend 15 minutes talk following 3 minutes questions and discussion. Time limits will be enforced.
We kindly ask you to send your presentation by May 12th to the meeting email address: reves2025@tuni.fi
The file should be named with the Session number and presenting author’s Last name. For example: Session 1 Smith.
In any case bring a copy of your presentation with you and provide it to the conference assistant in the meeting room during the break or for the morning session at least 15 minutes before the start of the session. However, we strongly recommend that you send your presentation in advance.
Poster presentation
Maximum poster size is 100 cm x 125 cm (width x height). Posters will be fixed on grids, clips will be provided.
Each poster will be displayed on two days, 14th and 15th May. Posters will be discussed and commented during the breaks.