{"id":16470,"date":"2025-01-15T07:14:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T07:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/cfpr\/?page_id=16470"},"modified":"2025-01-15T07:21:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T07:21:02","slug":"navigatingworkshop","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/cfpr\/navigatingworkshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Navigating Aging and Health with Limited Family Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\tWorkshop\n\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/cfpr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/01\/Navigating-Aging-and-Health-with-Limited-Family-Ties-Challenges-Opportunities-and-Policy-Responses-1-936x1024.png\" alt=\"Navigating Aging and Health with Limited Family Ties Challenges, Opportunities, and Policy Responses (1)\" height=\"1024\" width=\"936\" title=\"Navigating Aging and Health with Limited Family Ties Challenges, Opportunities, and Policy Responses (1)\" \/>\n\t<h3><strong>Navigating Aging and Health with Limited Family Ties: Challenges, Opportunities, and Policy Responses<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Date: 6-7 February 2025<\/p>\n<p>Time: 6 Feb (9am – 4:30pm) and 7 Feb (9:30am – 8pm)<\/p>\n<p>Venue: AS7-06-42 (NUS AS7 Level 6 Seminar Room)<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/cfpr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2025\/01\/Program_Navigating-Aging-Health-With-Limited-Family-Ties-Jan-14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tProgramme and Abstracts\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/nus.syd1.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_4ILKpcSKB5VqOua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRegister Here\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<h3>About the Workshop<\/h3>\n<p>Family ties play a vital role in facilitating various types of intra- and inter-generational transfers, including economic, instrumental, social, emotional, and care support. These ties are consistently linked to the health and well-being of older adults worldwide. However, recent demographic shifts-such as population aging, below-replacement fertility, and increased migration-alongside social, economic, and technological changes, have reshaped family structures and dynamics for current and future cohorts of older persons. Consequently, researchers are increasingly focusing on phenomena such as solo-living older adults, childless aging, “kinlessness”, sole family survivorship, elder orphans, and late-life friendships. As global trends toward smaller families and longer lifespans persist, there is an urgent need for additional empirical studies and theoretical development in this field.<\/p>\n<p>This international workshop brings together empirical research examining the complex dimensions of aging with limited family ties and their implications for care support, health, and well-being of older adults. Contributions cover a wide range of geographic regions, including East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Oceania, North America, Latin America, Europe, and Sub-Saharan Africa, ensuring a truly global perspective. The presentations feature research with diverse methodological approaches, including quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods studies, with both single-country and cross-national comparisons. The proceedings from this international workshop will contribute to a special issue of Social Science & Medicine on the same theme.<\/p>\nThe topics addressed include:<br \/>\n\u2022 Trends in limited kin availability (e.g., childlessness, kinlessness, sole family survivorship, one-child families, lifelong singlehood, solo living) and implications for health and well-being<br \/>\n\u2022 Long-term care, dementia care, and end-of-life care for older adults with restricted family ties<br \/>\n\u2022 Alternative support systems and innovations in care for older adults with minimal kin connections.<br \/>\n\u2022 The roles of social integration and social networks in supporting older adults with limited family ties and their implications for later-life health.\n<p> <\/p>\n<h3>Workshop Convenors\/Guest Editors<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology & Centre for Family and Population Research, National University of Singapore<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Christine A. Mair<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health & Center for Health and Equity, and Aging, University of Maryland Baltimore County<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>For more information: please email <a href=\"mailto:cfpr@nus.edu.sg\">cfpr@nus.edu.sg<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workshop Navigating Aging and Health with Limited Family Ties: Challenges, Opportunities, and Policy Responses Date: 6-7 February 2025 Time: 6 Feb (9am – 4:30pm) and 7 Feb (9:30am – 8pm) Venue: AS7-06-42 (NUS AS7 Level 6 Seminar Room) Programme and Abstracts Register Here About the Workshop Family ties play a vital role in facilitating …<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/cfpr\/navigatingworkshop\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Navigating Aging and Health with Limited Family Ties<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16470","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/cfpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/cfpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/cfpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/cfpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/cfpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16470"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/cfpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16478,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/cfpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16470\/revisions\/16478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/cfpr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}