New measures of age and ageing

International Conference

Vienna, 3 - 5 December 2014

3 December 2014

Opening Session

Chair: Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz

• Warren Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov
  A Unifying Framework for the Study of Population Aging
   
• Tim Riffe, Paul Chung, Jeroen Spijker, and John MacInnes
  Time-to-death patterns in markers of age and dependency  PDF
   
• Bernd Marin
  Prospective Age, Age Inflation, and Lifetime Indexing: Policy Implications of New Measures of Age and Ageing

Session 1: Measures based on biomarkers and cognition

Chair: Warren Sanderson

• David H. Rehkopf, Luis Rosero Bixby and William H. Dow
  A Crossnational comparison of biomarkers of aging between Costa Rica and the United States   PDF
   
• Daniela Weber
  Walking Speed as a Measure of Population Aging 
   
• Valeria Bordone, Sergei Scherbov and Nadia Steiber
  Smarter Every Day: The Deceleration of Population Aging in Terms of Cognition   PDF

4 December 2014

Session 2: Measures based on subjective life expectancy and survival probabilities

Chair: Andrew Noymer

• Jean Adams, Elaine Stamp, Daniel Nettle, Eugene MG Milne and Carol Jagger
  Does Greater Subjective Survival Affect Future Health Behaviour Patterns of Older English Adults: Analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing?   PDF
   
• Alberto Palloni and Beatriz Novak
  Subjective Survival Expectations and Observed Survival: How Consistent Are They?    PDF
   
• Zsolt Speder
  (Subjective) Ageing in Europe. Taking into consideration perceived old age lines in Europe 
   
• Arda Aktas
  Subjective Age

Session 3: Country Case Studies 1

Chair: Richard Gisser

• Stuart Basten
  Prospective ageing in developing countries   PDF
   
• Jelena Stojilkovic Gnjatovic and Mirjana Devedzic
  Characteristics of population ageing using prospective approach: Serbia as case study   PDF

Session 4: Economic implications of the new measures

Chair: Bernd Marin

• Jesus Crespo Cuaresma, Martin Lábaj and Patrik Pružinský
  Prospective Ageing and Economic Growth in Europe  PDF
   
• Mikkel Barslund and Marten v. Werder
  Measuring ‘old-age’ burdens using National Transfer Accounts   PDF
   
• Michaël Boissonneault, Joop de Beer and Leo Van Wissen
  Integrating the ability to work in the measurement of population ageing    PDF
   
• Bernhard Hammer, Jože Sambt, Elke Loichinger and Michael Freiberger, Alexia Prskawetz
  Economic Dependency Ratios    PDF

Session 5: Measures based on self-reported physical conditions

Chair: Sergei Scherbov

• Jacques Légaré, Yann Décarie and Alain Bélanger
  The Elderly Disability Dependency Ratio (EDDR): a new index  taking into account the specificity of elderly populations    PDF
   
• Jean-Marie Robine, Bernard Jeune, Wilma Nusselder, Herman van Oyen, Emmanuelle Cambois, Carol Jagger and the EHLEIS Group
  Health expectancies in the European Union, 2005-2012    PDF
   
• Toshiyuki Ojima, Jun Aida, Tatsuo Yamamoto, Katsunori Kondo and Shuji Hashimoto
  Healthy life expectancy with 20 or more teeth in Japan - An objective and internationally comparable health indicator for ageing 

5 December 2014

Session 6: Country Case Studies 2

Chair: Dimiter Philipov

• Elena Demuru and Viviana Egidi
  Controlling perspective age by health status: how to rejuvenate the population by improving health    PDF
   
• Anastasia Emelyanova and Arja Rautio
  Contextualization of population aging in the North Atlantic region: dynamics and demographic causes  PDF
   
• Gaiane Safarova, Anna Safarova and Alexander Lisenenkov
  Prospective measures of population ageing: gender differences  (the case of Saint-Petersburg)   PDF

Poster Session

• Jeroen Spijker, Tim Riffe and John MacInnes: Incorporating time-to-death (TTD) in health-based population ageing measurements    PDF
• Elke Loichinger and Daniela Weber:Trends in labor force participation and working life expectancy by education in Europe
• Daphne Nicolitsa: Mirror, mirror on the wall: am I young or am I old?    PDF
• Alla Ivanova and Elena Zemlyanova: Health status and social activity of the elderly in Russia    PDF
• Klaus Schömann and Christina Weiß: Competences and transitions into retirement - analyses using PIAAC and CiLL Data for Germany    PDF