Don't miss this month's virtual seminars from our Education and Long-Term Care Policy Seminar Series, fostering conversations between scholars on in-progress work in these growing fields.
Whitney Wells (University of California San Francisco) will be presenting her paper "The relationship between free preschool and parents’ wellbeing: Quasi-experimental evidence based on variation in generosity of US state-funded preschool programs"
October 8 at 8:00 AM PT/11:00 AM ET/5:00 PM CET.
Learn more about the talk and the Education Seminar Series(https://g2aging.org/edu/edu-seminar-series)
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Greta Pesaresi (University of Padova) will be presenting her paper "The labor market costs of parental dementia: evidence from the Health and Retirement Study"
October 15 at 8:00 AM PT/11:00 AM ET/5:00 PM CET. For more information, see here.
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We are excited to announce a new single sign-on (SSO) connection between the Gateway to Global Aging Data and the Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) Data Initiative. Users can now sign in to AD Workbench using their Gateway account or sign in to the Gateway using their AD Workbench account. This connection allows researchers to use an existing account across both platforms without having to manage another password.
AD Workbench is the AD Data Initiative’s secure, cloud-based platform where researchers can discover, share, and analyze data for research on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. This new SSO feature is part of our partnership with the AD Data Initiative to support research on aging and dementia by improving connections between our data resources.
You can still use your usual sign-in method to access both platforms. Access to individual datasets and research workspaces remains subject to the relevant application and approval requirements.
As part of this partnership, we plan to make AD Workbench an approved Gateway Data Enclave environment. This will provide researchers outside of the United States an additional environment to access and analyze data from participating studies. We will share more information about this initiative and its implications as work progresses.
We welcome your feedback on all of the Gateway’s expanding tools and resources. If you have questions about the new sign-in options, please contact us at help@g2aging.org.
We are pleased to announce a new data product, the Gateway Harmonized Chile-Cog, which is now accessible through the Gateway Data Enclave. The Chile-Cog is a Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol study using a subsample from the Social Protection Survey (SPS), the oldest and largest longitudinal panel survey in Chile, and its substudy, the Survey of Quality of Life of the Elderly (SPS-ENCAVIDAM).
While the SPS includes a nationally representative sample of around 16,000 individuals aged 18 and older in Chile, the Chile-Cog was designed to collect information on cognitive function from a representative sample of the Chilean population aged 60 and older. It was designed to have content in common with other HCAPs, and the Mex-Cog, the HCAP instrument fielded within the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS), in particular.
Harmonized Chile-Cog, Version A consists of Wave 1 variables, collected from 2019 to 2020. It also incorporates some demographic data from the Gateway Harmonized SPS-ENCAVIDAM.
This dataset is provided in Stata and SAS formats through the Gateway Data Enclave. The Gateway Data Enclave is a remote-access, secure data enclave hosted on the NIA's LINKAGE platform. By using the Gateway Data Enclave, users can analyze survey data from multiple HRS-INS studies on a single platform.
For more information, visit the Gateway Data Enclave website.
For more information about the Chile-Cog study, please see our Study Overview page or the information provided by the University of Pennsylvania.
The Gateway team is soliciting applications for a half-day research workshop focused on cross-country comparisons at the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Annual Scientific Meeting on November 4, 2026 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in National Harbor, Maryland. The goal of the workshop is to support new research projects using cross-country data resources available through the Gateway to Global Aging Data.
Available resources highlighted in this workshop will include two new analysis-ready datasets designed to facilitate cross-country research on aging:
Longitudinal Chronic Conditions Dataset, which combines harmonized data from the United States and England to support research on chronic disease prevalence, multimorbidity, age at diagnosis, recent diagnosis, modifiable risk factors, and related covariates. The dataset includes longitudinal data covering 2002 to 2022, allowing researchers to examine chronic conditions and related risk factors over time and across countries.
Cross-Country Social Isolation Dataset, which combines harmonized 2017–2021 core interview data from the United States, England, India, Chile, and Northern Ireland to support research on social isolation, loneliness, social networks, family contact, social activities, health outcomes, and related risk factors.
Applications are due by Monday, August 3, 2026, and should include a brief proposal for a research project to be developed in conjunction with the workshop. Proposals should focus on analyses using one of the two new cross-country analysis datasets or other data resources available through the Gateway Data Enclave. The two highlighted datasets are available through public-use access in the Enclave. All accepted participants will be expected to create a Gateway user account and apply for a Gateway Data Enclave Workspace.
Accepted participants will be expected to begin work on their proposed projects before the workshop, including exploring the relevant Gateway Data Enclave resources and running preliminary analyses. The workshop will be collaborative: participants will briefly present their research proposals and preliminary progress during the morning session and receive feedback and hands-on assistance from the Gateway team and affiliated senior researchers.
The workshop will be limited to 20 participants. Participants will have opportunities to network with senior researchers affiliated with the Gateway, lunch during the workshop, and a $300 stipend to offset travel costs.
Apply for the Research Workshop on Cross-Country Comparisons
We are pleased to announce a major update to the Harmonized dataset from the Diagnostic Assessment of Dementia for the Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI-DAD), which now includes newly available data from Wave 2. The Harmonized LASI-DAD, Version B.2 includes variables of the following:
This dataset is accompanied by a codebook detailing the dataset structure and all included variables. US-based researchers can access the data in Stata, SAS, and R formats through the Gateway to Global Aging Enclave. Non-US-based researchers will have access to the updated data shortly through the AD Workbench.