Presentations in 2026

We’re excited to share a preview of our presentations and posters for 2026. Our team will present ongoing research at conferences, workshops, and lecture series throughout the year. We look forward to engaging discussions—hope to see many of you there!

Andrea Cass: “Pre-retirement working conditions and long-term care (LTC) need for the 80+ in Germany”

IAB 17th Interdisciplinary PhD Workshop

📍 Nürnberg, Jan 22–23

🔗 https://lnkd.in/gA54NU3p

Andrea Cass: “Pre-retirement working conditions and long-term care (LTC) need for the 80+ in Germany”

17th Conference of Young Demographers

📍 Prague, Feb 4–6

🔗 https://lnkd.in/gvuQ2Niv

Kübra Akkaya: “Is There a Penalty to Parenting? Family Transitions in Midlife and Their Consequences for Political Participation and Volunteering”

Joint International Family Sciences Conference 2026 – FACES PhD Workshop

📍 Munich, Feb 25–27

🔗 https://lnkd.in/gMgcyrgV

Klara Raiber & Ariane Bertogg: “Co- and Extra-residential Care and Perceived Caregiver Burden: Can the Gaps Be Explained by Care Intensity, Tasks and Motivations?”

Joint Spring Meeting of the DGS Section Aging and Society & DGGG FA Aging and Technology

📍 Kempten, Feb 26–27

🔗 https://lnkd.in/gEwVkFV5

Ariane Bertogg: “Unequal Impacts of Societal Transformation? Germany's Division and Reunification and Intersectional Inequalities in Cognitive Ageing”

Gateway to Global Aging Education Seminar Series

🌐 Online, Mar 12

🔗 https://lnkd.in/g8YUcumK

Ariane Bertogg: “Family Diversity and Care Contexts: Who Provides Family and Non-Family Care in Europe?”

Einstein Center Population Diversity Lecture Series

📍 Mar 19

🔗 https://lnkd.in/gGm3kM6w

Jianghong Li, Kübra Akkaya, Heiko Giebler, Rebecca Wetter & Bianka Alejandra Delgadillo: “A 24 hours/7 days economy and electoral participation in the UK”

In_equality Conference

📍 Konstanz, Apr 15–17

🔗 https://lnkd.in/gpe-DaZN

Ariane Bertogg: “Shifting Health Resources? The Role of Educational Expansion and Diversifying Partnership Biographies for Gendered Experience of Aging”

IAGG World Congress

📍 Amsterdam, Jul 5–9

Ariane Bertogg, Mareike Bünning & Michael Weinhardt: “Family Diversity and Care Contexts: Who Provides Non-Family Care?”

ESHMS Congress

📍 Hamburg, Aug 19–21

🔗 https://lnkd.in/gMtHdjCe

Kübra Akkaya: “Is There a Penalty to Parenting? Examining Midlife Family Transitions and Volunteering”

ESHMS Congress

📍 Hamburg, Aug 19–21

🔗 https://lnkd.in/gMtHdjCe

Stay tuned for updates—and feel free to reach out if you’d like to connect at any of these events!

Some publications to wrap the year up

During the past year, Ariane has collaborated with several renowned scholars on important topics on healthy aging: the role of becoming a caregiver for one's health in later life, and the impact of climate change. Three papers emerged from this research, all of which being available open access (see the links below).

Key takeaways:

👉🏽 Providing care for someone in later life can pose a risk for physical and mental health, particularly if it is to your (step-)parents(-in-law). However, providing support downwardly (to children, including looking after grandchildren) is not clearly associated with health, and might come with slight benefits. (w/ Anna Manzoni, based on SHARE data from 2004-2019)

👉🏽 Becoming a caregiver is not associated with worsening cognitive functioning. To the countrary we find a slight improvement in memory functioning, which remains after caregiving ends. The effect did not depend on the intensity of care, and allostatic load was not associated with becoming a caregiver for women. (w/ Patrick Präg & Klara Raiber, based on ELSA data)

👉🏽 Socio-environmental crises such as pandemics and climate change can accelerate cognitive aging. The exposure to warmer average summer temperatures was associated with slightly faster decrease in memory functioning. Exposure to lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic showed greater average memory decline than the baseline decline rate that would have happened during a non-pandemic period of the same length. (w/Martina Brandt, based on the German SHARE sample from 2004-2021)

Bertogg, Ariane and Anna Manzoni. Intergenerational Support and Later Life Health: Associations by Role, Type and Direction of Support. Journal of Marriage and Family, online first. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.70049

Bertogg, Ariane, Patrick Präg, und Klara Raiber. Dynamics of later-life caregiving and health. Insights from biomarker data and cognitive tests. Social Science Research, 131(103205). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2025.103205

Bertogg, Ariane and Martina Brandt. Socio-environmental crises and cognitive ageing. Exploring the cognitive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and climate crises on older adults’ memory and verbal fluency. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 77, 849–879. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11577-025-01028-7

New Publications on Social Aspects of Cognitive Ageing

Together with Giulia Tattarini & Damiano Uccheddu, Ariane has published an article in American Journal of Epidemiology.

Ariane has also teamed up with Jeffrey Stokes to publish an article about East-West differences in older Germans' cognitive functioning. The study was published in Research on Aging.

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