KPA: Aging associated Diseases

The accelerating demographic change towards an increasingly aging society poses urgent socio-economic and health challenges with consequences across all sectors of public life. Addressing these interconnected dynamics requires new approaches and measures in society at large across the politics medicine, health care, economics etc. to ensure that future societies age in an equitable and sustainable way.

 This workshop brings together different expertise and disciplines from the UoC.The goal is to explore common interests and  potential novel interdisciplinary   interactions and  research directions and collaborations on demographic change.

PROGRAM

• 13:00–13:15
  Welcome: Carien Niessen and Björn Schumacher
   
• 13:15–13:35
  Matteo Bergami (CECAD): Rewiring of neuronal connectivity by environmental and social experience
   
• 13:35–13:55
  Lena Ansmann (Institute of Medical Sociology, Health Services Research and Rehabilitation Science, UoC): A sociological perspective on health and illness in an ageing society
   
• 13:55–14:15
  Frank Jessen (Dept. of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, UHC / CECAD / DZNE): Late-life depression: mechanisms, diagnosis and treatment
   
• 14:15–14:35
  Marc Tittgemeyer (MPI for Metabolism Research / CECAD): Endogenous routes to late-life depression: inflammation and metabolic resistance
   
• 14:35–14:55
  Jaroslava Zimmermann (ceres, UoC): Living environment and loneliness in older age
   
• 14:55–15:15
  Break
   
• 15:15–15:35
  Erik Dzwiza-Ohlsen (Husserl Archives Cologne / ceres, UoC): Embodied communication in dementia
   
• 15:35–15:55
  Kai Vogeley (Dept. of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; ceres group, UoC): Time experience and mortality salience
   
• 15:55–16:15
  Thomas Dohmen (Univ. Bonn, ECONtribute): The relevance of aging for economics
   
• 16:15–17:00
  Wrap-up and next steps

PARTICIPANTS

• Prof. Lena Ansmann, Institute of Medical Sociology, Health Services Research and Rehabilitation Science
• Prof. Matteo Bergami, CECAD 
• Prof. Thomas Dohmen, Univ. Bonn, ECONtribute 
• Dr. Erik Dzwiza-Ohlsen, Husserl Archives Cologne/ceres, UoC 
• Prof. Johannes Ehrenthal, Dep. Psychology, UoC 
• Prof. Frank Jessen, Dep. Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, UHC/CECAD/DZNE 
• Dr. Mathis Jording, Dep. Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, UHC/CECAD/DZNE 
• Jun. Prof. Nicole Kramer, Historical Institute, Dept. Recent History, UoC 
• Dr. Maria Marloth, Dept. of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, AG Social Cognition, UHC 
• David Meyer, CECAD 
• Prof. Carien Niessen, CECAD 
• Prof. Björn Schumacher, CECAD 
• Lisa Stockleben, Dep. of Special Education and Rehabilitation (DHR), UoC 
• Prof. Marc Tittgemeyer, MPI Metabolism Research/CECAD 
• Prof. Kai Vogeley, Dept. of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; AG Social Cognition, ceres group, UoC 
• Prof. Michael Wagner, Dep. of Sociology and Social Psychology, UoC 
• Prof. Susanne Zank, Dep. of Special Education and Rehabilitation (DHR), UoC 
• Dr. Jaroslava Zimmermann, ceres, UoC