Please save the dates for September 11-12 when the 2025 SIA workshop will take place in Stockholm – and note that this year we have a different arrangement and will meet both junior and senior members together. We will come back with more details soon.

We have the immense pleasure of announcing that the application to Forte that we submitted in the fall 2024 for a continuation of our network now has been accepted. The SIA network will receive the 446 000 SEK– in total over 3 years – that we applied for.“The new network grant enables us to continue with the capacity building and the strengthening of Nordic collaborations within social ageing research. Although a network grant, in terms of money, is smaller than typical research project I am convinced that we can have a great impact and continue our important mission. I am

The 2024 SIA junior workshop was held in Stockholm at the Långholmen hotel and conference center on September 2 to 3. Junior researchers from Denmark, Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands participated, presented manuscript drafts from their ongoing work (see Table 1 for a list of presenters and titles) and contributed to others’ work by reading each other’s papers and providing feedback. From left to right: Farzana Rahman, Robin Ramos Serrano and Isabelle von Saenger. Foto: Neda Agahi Table 1 List of titles of manuscripts presented Title Author Demographic and socioeconomic differences in home-based healthcare in Region Stockholm: A descriptive study

Junior researchers within the SIA network started to work on a symposium abstract to the 27th Nordic Congress of Gerontology during our junior workshop in September 2023. The abstract was subsequently submitted, and we are now proud to announce that the symposium idea was accepted by the organization committee. The symposium is titled ”Social inequalities and ageing in a Nordic setting – from working life to residential care” and consists of five presentations given by Pernilla Alencar Siljehag (Aging Research Center, Karolinska institutet and Stockholm Gerontology Research Center, Sweden), Mari Heitto (Programme in Health Sciences, Tampere University, Finland), Laura Pirhonen

Dear all SIA colleagues and friends, We have been reached by the sad news that Barbro Westerholm, 89, died a few days ago. May she rest in peace. Those who participated in the final conference of the SIA programme in September were extremely lucky to have Barbro as our final panel. She participated the whole day, glad to have a day off from the not-so-pleasant election campaign and instead focusing on an important aspect of ageing research. As always, she was full of energy and eager that we all should do our best to disseminate our research to the political

Johan Fritzell, PI for the large-scale project Social Inequality in Ageing (SIA), in an interview in connection with the project coming to an end. The article was published on 6 January 2023 on Nordforsk’s website, “Ageing population putting welfare state under pressure”. Link to the news: English: Ageing population putting welfare state under pressure Norwegian: Eldrebølgen setter velferdsstaten under press