1:00-2:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 4, 2025
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This 90-minute webinar will feature NIA-funded researchers describing how social media and new technologies may enhance—or limit—social connectedness and emotional well-being among older adults. The webinar will be hosted by the Coordinating Center for the Centers on the Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias.
“Daily Social Media Use, Social Ties, and Emotional Well-Being in Later Life”
Karen L. Fingerman, Ph.D.
Wilson Regents Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences
Director, Texas Aging and Longevity Center
Director of Research, Center on Aging and Population Sciences (CAPS) Program Development and Pilot Core
University of Texas at Austin
“Home Alone Together: Differential Links between Momentary Contexts and Real-Time Loneliness among Older Adults from Chicago during Versus before the COVID-19 Pandemic”
Ellen L. Compernolle, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist, NORC
University of Chicago
“Social Connection and Gene Regulation during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Divergent Patterns for Online and In-Person Interaction”
Steven W. Cole, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology
Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
Director, UCLA Social Genomics Core Laboratory
University of California at Los Angeles