Projects

Italian Ministry of Research (PRIN 2022). Duration: 2 years; PI: Bruno Arpino; Co-PIs: Marco Albertini, Cecilia Tomassini.


Funding for a PhD scholarship, Italian Ministry of Research, FSE REACT-EU; 2022-2024.


CREW is an interdisciplinary and cross-national project carried out by a consortium of six teams from five countries:   University Pompeu Fabra (UPF, Spain; Coordinator; PI: Bruno Arpino), the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic  Institute (NIDI, Netherlands; PI: Anne Gauthier), Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium; PI: Ester Rizzi), University of Florence (Italy; PI: Gustavo De Santis), University of Padua (Italy; PI: Maria Letizia Tanturri), University of Western Ontario (Canada; PI: Rachel Margolis). 

Its goal is to examine the interrelationships between care, work, health and  wellbeing at older ages. 

CREW is a project financed through the Joint Programming Initiative, More Years Better Lives 2017-2020). 

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Description:

Against the background of population ageing, researchers and policymakers are increasingly interested in the factors that can help people to age successfully. This project aims to bring the role of grandparenting in the discussion on successful ageing by analysing the consequences of this important family role for older people. The determinants of grandparenting and its effects on other generations have been widely studied. However, the effects of grandparenting on grandparents’ health remain under-investigated, and this project aims to fill this gap. More specifically, the project’s goals are:

1. To investigate the effects of grandchild care by analysing also dimensions such as cognitive functioning and social engagement that have been overlooked in past studies.

2. To improve understanding of the causal mechanisms linking grandparenting to health outcomes. This implies studying the heterogeneity of the effects of grandchild care and the potentially mediating and moderator factors, such as the combination of multiple roles.

3. To study how the effects of grandparenting vary across different normative and structural contexts.

 The project relies upon rich secondary longitudinal data from the Survey of Health Aging and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). The project is inter-disciplinary and will draw on theoretical insights from sociology, gerontology, demography and economics.


 La colaboración en particular tendrá los siguientes objetivos específicos:

 - Estudiar en qué medida las personas con alto riesgo de aislamiento participan en las actividades organizadas por la fundación, los factores que influyen en la  participación y los que podrían aumentarla.

- Analizar el efecto de intervenciones diseñadas para aumentar el nivel de actividad de las personas mayores con riesgo de aislamiento: Se pretende evaluar si  este tipo de intervención puede ser eficaz en:

                - estimular un mayor nivel de actividad de las personas mayores aisladas;

                - mejorar medidas de salud y bienestar físico y mental de las personas mayores.