2022-2023 Training year events

2023 CAnD3 Keynote Address

Aging across the Decades: Shifting Perspectives, Promising Directions, and Self-Reflections

June 12, 2023 (Hybrid event)

We are excited to welcome you to the 2023 CAnD3 Keynote Address! This hybrid event is the culmination of the 2022-2023 Training Program. It will be a moment to celebrate three cohorts of CAnD3 Fellows from 2020 to 2023. The event also marks the halfway point of the $2.5M Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) partnership grant that formed CAnD3.

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Research Opportunities with the Health and Retirement Study

May 10, 2023, 12:00 to 13:00 (Online event)

This session will discuss the potential of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) to shed light on complex questions surrounding aging, work, retirement, health, family connections, and others. The HRS is a nationally representative longitudinal survey of over 37,000 individuals over the age of 50 in the US. The survey aims to capture shifting health and economic circumstances at the individual and population levels and has been employed to understand adverse experiences over the lifecourse and cognitive impairment, among others.

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Are we adding more life to our years? Testing a compression of morbidity argument by examining activity-limiting pain in older adults using multistate life table methods

April 12, 2023, 12:00 to 13:00 (Online event)

The compression of morbidity argument contests that the burden of illness can be compressed into a shorter period of time before death, thereby improving the quality of life. In this Lunch&Learn session, Dr. Zachary Zimmer will discuss this hypothesis by examining activity-limiting pain in older adults through multistate life table methods (based on a paper being co-authored with CAnD3 Alum Feinuo Sun). Ultimately, this session will contend with the question of whether we are adding more life to our years—a nod to the 1974 Lalonde Report.

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Creating a Public Resource: O*NET Job Characteristics Dataset for Use with the Health and Retirement Study and Other Surveys

March 8, 2023, 12:00 to 13:00 (Online event)

The O*NET Program is the United States' primary source of occupational information and this dataset is essential to understanding the rapidly changing nature of work and how it impacts the workforce and economy. In this Lunch&Learn session, Dr. Dawn C. Carr and Rebekah Carpenter will present on how the O*NET job characteristics dataset can be applied to health and retirement studies. More research connecting health and retirement are warranted to understand retirement timing and its impacts on system finances, well-being, cognitive functioning, and aging.

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Internalized Colorism and Psychobiological Distress Among Black Americans 

February 8, 2023, 12:00 to 13:00 (Hybrid event)

Join our February Lunch&Learn event with Dr. Alexis Dennis, Assistant Professor of Sociology at McGill University, whose research investigates how and why structural and social stratification processes generate inequalities in health and well-being. Dr. Dennis will speak on the historical and social processes that produce and perpetuate colorism and internalized colorism and their links to health and well-being outcomes among Black Americans.  

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Sex- and gender-based analyses using existing data without a gender measure: Is it possible?

January 11, 2023, 12:00 to 13:00 (Online event)

While the analysis of administrative databases and surveys is vital to understanding population health and health inequalities, many of these datasets do not include gender measures. This session will explore the challenge of conducting sex- and gender-based analyses when self-reported gender measures are unavailable. Overcoming this challenge will be important for inclusive and accountable public health evidence-based decision-making.   

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Future of Home Care: Cross-National Perspectives

November 9, 2022, 12:00 to 13:00 (Online event)

This session will explore the future of care for older adults, including how to care for older persons with complex chronic conditions at home and in nursing homes and how we may identify older home care recipients' risk of unplanned hospital visits. Insights will be drawn from the EU-funded I-CARE4OLD project and the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.

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The Role of Information Technologies in Transportation Services: Promises and Perils of Big Data

October 12, 2022, 12:00 to 13:00 (Online event)

Our first Lunch&Learn session of the year features a lecture by Professor Manish Shirgaokar on how information technologies, including phone applications and social media, may be leveraged to enhance mobility and the accessibility of transportation services. We will explore both the opportunities and challenges that data from information technologies offer.

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2022-23 CAnD3 Training Program Kick-Off Event: The Many Faces of Population Aging

September 7, 2022, 12:00 to 13:00 (Online event)

Welcome to the first CAnD3 Training Session of 2022-23! We are 'Kicking Off' the year with a diverse panel of speakers to tackle questions including: What does population aging mean in different sectors and disciplines? How can different, unique disciplinary approaches to population aging contribute to research and policy to create more inclusive societies? 

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