Curious about how #care #provision in later life changed during #COVID_19? And what this meant for #mentalhealth and #physicalhealth? Paper out in Aging & Mental Health with Debora Price UCL @UCL_IECH @UoMSoSS Policy@Manchester @McrSociology British Gerontology 🧵 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #OpenAccess

Delighted to see this published – a huge amount of work by many great researchers. We describe the mental health gap between those who live alone and with others in the UK prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/26/1/e…

Our paper is finally out with Scientific Reports after a long journey! Paola Zaninotto Giorgio Di Gessa Check it out for changes in #healthbehaviours during #COVID19 and effect on #weight and #obesity using English Longitudinal Study of Ageing. UCL UCL IEHC UCL EPH nature.com/articles/s4159…

New paper on young adult carers in UK & Germany out today from our Eurocare team. Young adult caring again linked to reduced likelihood of obtaining a degree & esp in UK than Germany. Effect of young adult caring on entering work more in Germany than UK. doi.org/10.1017/S00472…

🥳Thrilled to share our paper Giorgio Di Gessa Paola Zaninotto published on BJPsych Open BJPsych Journals Cambridge Core 👉Check it out for pre-pandemic depression trajectories and their relation to peri-pandemic depression using ELSA English Longitudinal Study of Ageing UCL EPH UCL IEHC doi.org/10.1192/bjo.20…

New Eurocare paper out today showing mental health declines when becoming a carer, incl in young adulthood. Particularly the case for those providing intense care & to someone in the hhold. Uses data from Understanding Society Link to paper here: thelancet.com/journals/lanpu…

Read our latest blog reviewing research from Rebecca Lacey, Anne McMunn, Baowen Xue, Giorgio Di Gessa & Wentian Lu calling for urgent action to support young carers’ #MentalHealth buff.ly/3MTKR1F APPG for Young Carers and Young Adult Carers Carers Trust Understanding Society UCL IEHC SGUL Population Health Research #YoungCarers #Care

Not sure who is still on Twitter/X these days, but in this paper we show that 10-year trajectories of depression were more important than the latest pre-pandemic measure of depression in understanding depression during the COVID-19

🔴 For those still on Twitter. We're opening 2 PhD positions (4years) and 2 Postdocs positions (3y) at ULB to start by Mar-Apr 2024 to work on trade unions and health with a public health approach. More information soon but feel free to contact on [email protected].

Come and do a PhD with me, Marion Henderson & Markus Klein! Do you think children deserve better than growing up in poor and insecure housing? Are you passionate about using big data and quantitative methods to produce evidence-based knowledge?

if u are interested in -working @ University of Bologna -doing (quantitative) research on formal and informal care givers -social stratification aspects of caregiving then this call it is for u bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/assegn… if u need help or info just dm/mail me

Excited to share our new study The Lancet Healthy Longevity showing a mediating role of depressive symptoms, but not inflammation, in associations between social health markers (particularly social support) and subsequent cognition authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S26… MRC LHA @ UCL

Social health and subsequent cognitive functioning in people aged 50 years and older: examining the mediating roles of depressive symptoms and inflammatory biomarkers in two European longitudinal studies by Dr Jean Stafford and colleagues thelancet.com/journals/lanhl…

Work with me and Giorgio Di Gessa on this exciting project on the effects of environmental exposures on cognition and dementia

Happy to share our paper examining associations between healthy lifestyle and cognitive decline using data from English Longitudinal Study of Ageing and SHARE_MEA was published in Nature Communications yesterday. Behavioural Science & Health UCL nature.com/articles/s4146…