Symposium: Det sociala åldrandet
Samhälle & ekonomi
Symposium med Professor Merril Silverstein, Professor Kieran Walsh och Professor Sigurveig H. Sigurðardóttir.
Seminarium
Symposium med Professor Merril Silverstein, Professor Kieran Walsh och Professor Sigurveig H. Sigurðardóttir.
Var femte person i Sverige kommer att vara 60 år eller äldre om tio år. Den äldre befolkningen är en anmärkningsvärt heterogen grupp jämfört med yngre åldersgrupper. En aspekt av den äldre befolkningens heterogenitet handlar om äldres mångfald i livschanser när det gäller risker och möjligheter under hela livsloppet. Socialt åldrande belyser betydelsen av sociala relationer, som kan fungera som en skyddsfaktor under livets gång. Detta symposium kommer att belysa betydelsen av intergenerationella relationer, social utslagning och kritiska livsövergångar senare i livet.
Professor Merril Silverstein (professor i sociologi och socialt arbete) kommer att föreläsa om ömsesidigheten mellan generationer i den åldrande familjen.
Detta kommer också att vara temat för Sigurveig H. Sigurðardóttir (professor i socialt arbete), som kommer att prata om sociala relationer i ett föränderligt samhälle – farföräldrar och barnbarn. Sist av allt kommer Kieran Walsh (professor i Public Policy) att hålla en presentation om social utslagning och kritiska livsövergångar senare i livet.
Symposiet genomförs på engelska och har tre teman
Merril Silverstein, Professor, Sociology and Human Development and Family Science. Syracuse University US
Merril Silverstein is inaugural holder of the Marjorie Cantor Chair in Aging Studies at Syracuse University in the Maxwell School Department of Sociology and in Human Development and Family Science. He received his doctorate in sociology from Columbia University. In over 150 research publications, he has focused on aging in the context of family life, with an emphasis on life course and international perspectives. He serves as principal investigator of the Longitudinal Study of Generations and has had projects in China, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Israel. He is a Brookdale Fellow and Fulbright Senior Scholar and between 2010-2014 served as editor-in-chief of Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences.
Kieran Walsh, Professor of Ageing and Public Policy (Economics), Former Chair, ROSEnet COST Action CA15122, Director Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, Institute for Lifecourse and Society, NUI, Galway
Kieran Walsh is Acting Director of the Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, and Project Director of Project Lifecourse at the Institute for Lifecourse and Society in the National University of Ireland Galway.
Kieran has extensive experience in interdisciplinary social gerontology and life-course research. He has played a leading role in the development of mixed-method approaches for national and cross-national projects, and has led an international multi-site and interdisciplinary research programmes.
Kieran’s research interests and expertise focus on: social exclusion in later life; the relative nature of disadvantage in cross-national contexts; place and life-course transitions and trajectories; the influence of the institutional life course; and informal and formal infrastructures of care. Kieran is also Chair of the European COST Action CA15122 on ‘Reducing Old-Age Social Exclusion’ (ROSEnet), which has over 120 members from 37 different countries.
Sigurveig H. Sigurðardóttir, Professor at the Faculty of Social Work, University of Iceland
Sigurveig H. Sigurðardóttir graduated as a social worker from the University of Gothenburg and worked at the Geriatric department of the University Hospital in Iceland for several years. She received her doctorate in gerontology from the Institute of Gerontology, Jönköping University.
Her main research field is care of older people, both formal and informal care. She has also studied family relations and support between generations.
She has participated in different Nordic and European networks related to older adults and has published several research articles and book chapters.
Sigurveig Sigurðardóttir is the coordinator of the Nordic Master’s programme in Gerontology (NordMaG), which is a cooperation between four Nordic Universities in offering a joint degree in Gerontology. She is the former Head of the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Iceland.