ASA 2026 SALC Conference Schedule
SALC Council Meeting – Monday, July 20, 2026 at 1:30 P.M. EDT
Sunday, August 9th, 2026
Disrupting Health Inequities Across the Life Course (Co-sponsored by Aging and the Life Course Section)
10:00am to 11:30am, Hilton, Floor: Second Floor, Nassau West
Presider:
Leping Wang (Vanderbilt University)
Individual Presentations:
- Do the Protective Perinatal Effects of the Civil Rights Movement Extend to the Next Generation? – Allison Stolte, University of Virginia
- Intersectional Inequalities in Cognitive Aging Trajectories and Neighborhood Disorder – Richard Patti, University of Mississippi
- Socioeconomic disadvantage and adult mental health: Examining cumulative and timing effects across socioeconomic contexts – Eun Hye Lee, Indiana University-Bloomington
- Who Can Recover from Disruption? Childhood Adversity, Structural Sexism, and Gendered Social Reproduction – Yang Zhong, Florida State University
- Women’s Employment and Family Trajectories Shape Health Unequally in Later Life Across Welfare Regimes – Nanum Jeon, University of California-Los Angeles; Aitor Garcia-Aguirre, Spanish Research Council, University Carlos III of Madrid; Wesley Wang, Purdue University; Yanji Du, University of California-Los Angeles; Bruno Arpino, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padua; Linda Vecgaile, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR); Emilio Zagheni, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Session Organizer:
Wen Fan (Boston College)
Sarah Mustilio (University of Notre Dame)
Section DAY – Sunday, August 10, 2025
Contextual Influences on Well-Being Across the Life Course
8:00 to 9:30am, Hilton, Floor: Fourth Floor, New York
Presider:
Leping Wang (Vanderbilt University)
Individual Presentations:
- Neighborhood Social and Physical Conditions Shape Older Adults’ Everyday Safety – Liang Cai, University of Chicago; Christopher R Browning, The Ohio State University; Kathleen A. Cagney, University of Chicago
- Far From Home? Activity Spaces Across Rural-Urban Contexts in Later Life – Adam Roth, Oklahoma State University; Siyun Peng, Indiana University-Bloomington; Jafnun Nudrat Jarin, Pennsylvania State University; Maleah Fekete, Indiana University-Bloomington; Tianyao Qu, Indiana University-Bloomington; Brea Louise Perry, Indiana University-Bloomington
- Aging Under Infrastructural Strain: Civic Capacity and Cumulative Inequality in Later Life – Melanie Z. Plasencia, Rutgers University-Newark
- Gendered Life Course Trajectories, Gender Equality, and Health – Wesley Wang, Purdue University
- The Heat Pays Later: Long-Term Occupation-Specific Exposure to Extreme Heat and Later-Life Physical Health – Jason Wong, Yale University
Session Organizer:
Patricia A. Thomas (Purdue University)
Haowei Wang (Syracuse University)
Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award Lecture
10:00 to 11:00am, Hilton, Floor: Second Floor, Sutton South
Dr. Neal Krause, the 2025 recipient of the Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award, will present his lecture entitled “Religion, Aging, and Health: Reflections on 40 Years of Gerontological Research”
SALC Business Meeting
11:00 to 11:30am, Hilton, Floor: Second Floor, Sutton South
Flash Talks: Social Factors and Health Across the Life Course
2:00pm to 3:30pm, Hilton, Floor: Second Floor, Sutton South
Presider:
Patricia A. Thomas (Purdue University)
Individual Presentations:
- Maternal and Infant Health – Patricia Homan, Florida State University
- The Long Arm of Adversity: Intergenerational Associations between Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences and Children’s Well-Being – Lawrence Stacey, Vanderbilt University
- Adolescence and Health – Robert Crosnoe, University of Texas-Austin
- Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the US – Stephanie L. Canizales, University of California-Berkeley
- Forging Bonds: How Black Men’s Friendships Shape the Journey to Adulthood – Brandon A. Jackson, University of Illinois
- Stressors, Coping, and Black Women’s Life Course Health – Christy L Erving, University of Texas-Austin
- Health in Midlife – Jessica A. Kelley, Case Western Reserve University
- Beyond the Latino Paradox Advantage: Reimagining Latino Aging as Structural Vulnerability – Marc Anthony Garcia, Syracuse University
- Offspring Education and Parental Health: What We Know and Challenges that Remain – Jenjira Yahirun, Bowling Green State University
- A Good Death: What is It, and Who Attains It – Deborah Carr, Boston University
Session Organizer:
Patricia A. Thomas (Purdue University)
Aging and the Life Course Section Roundtables
4:00pm to 5:30pm, Hilton, Floor: Second Floor, Regent
Session Organizers:
Courtney E. Boen (Brown University)
Rachel Donnelly (Vanderbilt University)
Table 1: Dementia and Cognitive Aging
Table Presider:
Yan Zhang (Texas State University)
Individual Presentations:
- Adolescent Flood Exposure and Cognitive Aging Trajectories in China: Evidence Consistent with Post Traumatic Growth Theory – Yunchen Ruan, Fuzhou University, China; Mantang Gan, Fuzhou University
- An Intersectional, Constrained Activity Approach to Later-Life Falls and Cognition – Matthew Andersson, Baylor University; Max Elliott Coleman, University of Utah; Markus H. Schafer, Baylor University
- Cognitive Difficulties among Asian Americans Older Adults – Yan Zhang, Texas State University; Haowei Wang, Syracuse University; Marc Anthony Garcia, Syracuse University; Catherine Garcia, Syracuse University; Jeung Hyun Kim, Brown University
- Education, Psychological Resilience, and Cognitive Functioning in Later Life – Miles G. Taylor, Florida State University; Dawn Celeste Carr, Florida State University
- Family Educational Configurations and Cognitive Functioning in Later Life – Jaycob Scott Applegate, Bowling Green State University
- Moderating Effects of Educational Inequality on The Education/Dementia Relationship – Brian Karl Finch, University of Southern California; Sneha Nimmagaddaa, University of Southern California; Deborah Finkel, University of Southern California & Jonkoping University; Margaret Gatz, University of Southern California; Chandra Reynolds, University of Colorado at Boulder; Marianne Nygaard, University of Southern Denmark; Vibeke Catts, University of New South Wales; Anbu Thalamuthu, University of New South Wales; Perminder Sachdev, University of New South Wales; Malin Ericcson, Karolinska lnstitutet; Ida Karlsson, Karolinska lnstitutet; Valgeir Thorvaldsson, University of Gothenburg; Linda Hassing, University of Gothenburg
Table 2: Life course Approaches to Mental Health and Well-being
Table Presider:
Stuti Das (The University of Texas Medical Branch)
Individual Presentations:
- Adverse Childhood Experiences, Future Expectations, and Mental Health Outcomes – Miranda Habrecht, University at Buffalo; Devon Skufca, University at Buffalo
- Beyond the U-Shape: Do Age Differences in Mental Health Vary Across Racial/Ethnic Groups? – Stuti Das, The University of Texas Medical Branch; Deborah Carr, Boston University
- Early Parental Loss, Peer Relationships, and Later-Life Depression: Cumulative Inequality under China’s Hukou System – Leng Seang Che, The University of Texas at Austin
- Perceived Financial Impacts of the Great Recession and Well-Being: Do Associations Differ by Age Groups? – Elinore Ruth Avni, Boston University
- Stress resilience or stress proliferation? The impact of life course cumulative stress on pain – Rui (Zoe) Huang, SUNY-Buffalo; Yuhang Li, SUNY-Albany
- Thinking about the Future, Responding in the Present: Perceived Social Mobility and Agency during COVID-19 – Shelley McDonough Kimelberg, University at Buffalo; Megan Holland lantosca, University at Buffalo; Kristen Schultz Lee, University at Buffalo
- School Policy Punitiveness and Midlife Cardiometabolic Risk: Gender, Race, and Health in the Zero Tolerance Era – Sylvie Tuder, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Table 3: Life Course Experiences and Exposures and Long-Term Health Trajectories
Table Presider:
KJ Davidson-Turner (University of Southern California)
Individual Presentations:
- Child’s educational disruptions during adolescence and parent’s physical health in later life – Hyewon Son, The University of Texas at Austin
- Early Life Context, Childhood Stress Exposure and Dual Functionality in Later Life – Michael S. Topping, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Gendered Signals in Adolescents’ Writing: Embedding-Based Index and Later-Life Outcomes for a 1958 UK Cohort – Zerui Tian, University of Oxford
- Hot Flashes, Stress, & The Perceptions of Aging: A Biosocial Approach to the Menopause Transition – KJ Davidson-Turner, University of Southern California
- Perceived Body Weight in Young Adulthood: Gender, Race-ethnicity, Self-rated Health, and Adolescent Adjustment – C. Andre Christie-Mizell, Vanderbilt University; Lori Kowaleski-Jones, University of Utah
- Trends in Hispanic/Latino Self-Rated Health: Growth Curve Decomposition of Age, Period, and Cohort Effects – Erin L Cuellar Wright, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- Social Support, Social Participation, and Cognitive and Mental Health of Older Adults: A U.S.-China Comparison – Leping Wang, Boston University (Charles River Campus)
- Contextual Long Arms: Adolescent Family and Neighborhood Disadvantages and Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Biological Age Acceleration – Yiang Li, University of Chicago; Yang Claire Yang, University of Notre Dame; Linda J. Waite, University of Chicago; Allison E Aiello; Kathleen Mullan Harris, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Table 4: Family Caregiving
Table Presider:
Yongxin Shang (Yale University)
Individual Presentations:
- Care arrangements for older people in migrant families: A systematic review of the empirical literature – Sait Bayrakdar, University of Warwick; Ayse Guveli, University of Warwick
- Care Burden Avoidance Awareness and Anticipatory Transition: A Qualitative Life Course Approach to Men – Shizuko Katagiri, Kagoshima University
- Cognitive Labor Challenges among Caregivers for Spouses Living with Dementia – Toni Ca/asanti, Virginia Tech; Sadie Snow, Hollins University
- Intergenerational Care and Mental Health: Comparing Child and Senior Caregiving Across the Life Course in Canada – Fabio Robibaro, University of Toronto; Kayla A Benjamin
- No Family, No State: Older adults’ strategies for informal caregiving in a neoliberal political economy – Erica Janka, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- Turnover in Care Networks of Older Adults: Prevalence, Inequalities, and Consequences – Yongxin Shang, Yale University
Table 5: Marital Formation and Dissolution
Table Presider:
Gabrielle Juteau (Bowling Green State University)
Individual Presentations:
- Late-Life Widowhood and Economic Well-Being in Türkiye and the United States – Damla Topbas, Northeastern University; Deborah Carr, Boston University
- Marital Unions, Men’s Migration, and Turbulent Trajectories: Connecting Migration-Marriage Sequences to Non-migrating Women’s Well-Being – Yanji Du, University of California-Los Angeles; Wesley Wang, Purdue University; Victor Agadjanian, University of California – Los Angeles
- (Re)partnering in Later Life Among Parents: The Significance of Offspring Characteristics – Gabrielle Juteau, Bowling Green State University
- Spousal death as an equalizer?: Racial heterogeneity in the widowhood effect on loneliness – Micah Tan
Table 6: Family Relationships and Dynamics
Table Presider:
Sophia Olsinski (University at Buffalo)
Individual Presentations:
- A Temporal Perspective on Ambivalent Ties Among Two Age Cohorts – Shira Offer, Bar-llan University
- Childhood Abuse and Health in Midlife: What Role Do Adult Offspring and Romantic Partners Play? – Sophia Olsinksi, University at Buffalo; Ashley B Barr, University at Buffalo; Christopher Richard Dennison, University at Buffalo; Kristen Schultz Lee, University at Buffalo; Chandler Fairbanks, University at Buffalo; Laura Sills, University at Buffalo (SUNY); Gavin Glaser, Elizabeth O’Boyle; Arivana Russell; Rachel Zhang, University of Tampa
- Household Trajectories and Depressive Symptoms in Later Life: Evidence from Sequence Analysis and Marginal Structural Models – Huimin Zhang, University of Florida; Won-tak Joo, University of Florida; Jiahui Lyu, University of Florida
- The Role of Relationship Biography in Advance Care Planning Among Older Adults – ZHE ZHANG, Vanderbilt University; Lucie Kalousova, Vanderbilt University
Table 7: Intergenerational and Grandparent Roles
Table Presider:
Mia Brantley (North Carolina State University)
Individual Presentations:
- Family Ties in Transition: Shifting Mechanisms of Grandparental Caregiving in Rural China, 2001-2021 – Tianqi Zhou, Syracuse University
- Following in His Father’s Footsteps? Intergenerational Transmission of Work and Family Trajectories Among German Men – Jonathan Simon Gruhler, University Frankfurt am Main; Heather Hofmeister, Goethe University, Frankfurt; Tomas Cano, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
- ‘I’m going to make sure the kids eat even if I don’t:’ Grandparent Food Insecurity – Madonna Harrington Meyer, Syracuse University; Anna C De La Paz, Syracuse University
- Revisiting Associational and Digital Solidarity from the Life Course Perspective: Linking Contact, Support, and Well-being – Ranran He, Purdue University; Robert T Frase, Southern Illinois University; J. Jill Suitor, Purdue University
- The Mortality Risk of Custodial Grandparenting among Asian Americans – Hongwei Xu, CUNY-Queens College; Elaine Wu, Department of Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences, Graduate Center – CUNY
- The Role of Vicarious Racism-related Stress for Black Families – Mia Brantley, North Carolina State University; Malia Hamilton, North Carolina State University
Table 8: Living Arrangements and Housing (In)stability
Table Presider:
Anna Gardner (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Individual Presentations:
- Aging in Place: Family, Health, and Environmental Risk in Rural Eastern North Carolina – Anna Gardner, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- Diminishing Racial Disparities in Recurrent Homelessness Risk Among Vulnerable Subpopulations: The Case of Older Adult Veterans – Jared N. Schachner, University of Southern California
- Economic Resources, Living Arrangements, and Depression Among Older Adults in Chinese Households – Jingqin Ji, University of Florida; Jiahui Lyu, University of Florida
- Not Where You Live, but How It Feels: Neighborhood and Psychological Well-Being in Later Life – Yuchen Gu, Boston College
- The Social Meanings of Housing for Older Adults in Taiwan – Chyi-Rong Tsai, University of Texas-Austin
- Trust and Mistrust in the Healthcare Safety-net: Experiences and Expectations of Aging Adults Experiencing Homelessness – Natrina Johnson, ucsf; Margot Kushel, University of California San Francisco Department of Medicine; Kelly Knight, University of California, San Francisco
Table 9: Social Activities Among Older Adults
Table Presider:
Jianjun Ji (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire)
Individual Presentations:
- Links between Activities of Daily Living and Life Satisfaction of the Chinese Elderly – Jianjun Ji, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
- Patterns of Regular Heavy Drinking in Canada: An Analysis of Health Lifestyles – Anthony Jehn, St. Thomas University; Matthew Stackhouse, University of Western Ontario; Greggory Cullen, Mount Royal University; David Michael Walters, University of Guelph
Table 10: Social Connection and Engagement Among Older Adults
Table Presider:
HJ Katelyn Kim (University of Pennsylvania)
Individual Presentations:
- Functional Equivalents: Religious Attendance, Civic Engagement, and Later-Life Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms – Mingui Gao, Purdue University; Hui Liu, Purdue University
- Living alone, not in isolation: Korean older adults’ time use for social engagement and living arrangements – HJ Katelyn Kim, University of Pennsylvania; Hyunjoon Park, University of Pennsylvania
- Rebranding Aging: A Content Analysis of Older Adult Representation in Community Center Promotional Materials – Kaitlyn Barnes Langendoerfer, Wilkes University; Abigail Kay LeGars, Wilkes University; Kyra Corbisiero, College of the Holy Cross; Regan Metz, Wilkes University
- Social participation, race, and cognitive function in later life – Mallory Bell, Purdue University
- The Emergent Connection Platform: A New Model to Foster Social Connection in Later Life – Laurent Reyes, UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare
Table 11: Employment, Job Quality, and Retirement
Table Presider:
Kristen Tzoc (Hood College)
Individual Presentations:
- Decomposing the U-shaped trend in older adults’ labour force participation in Hong Kong: An ageperiod- cohort analysis – Mengyu Liu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Gender inequality in occupational pensions: Is there a marriage penalty? – Alisa C. Lewin, University of Haifa; Haya Stier, Noa Achouche, University of Haifa
- “LIKE two jobs? It IS two jobs!”: Identity Strategies for Combining Work and Crime – Steven H. Lopez, The Ohio State University; Paul E. Bellair, The Ohio State University
- Nuanced Inequalities: The role of status inconsistency on retirement savings – Kristen Tzoc, Hood College
- Skills and the Demand for Job-Related Training and Education in Adulthood – Patrick Denice, Western University; Emma D. Cohen, American Institutes for Research; Shahar Dangur-Levy, University of Western Ontario
- The Experience of Ageism Among Adults Training for New Careers: The Impact of Social Class – Matthew N. Weinshenker, Fordham University
- The Simultaneous Effects of Earnings and Intrinsic Job Rewards on Health over the Life Course – Xiaowen Han, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Table 12: Structural Barriers and Vulnerability among Older Adults
Table Presider:
Grace Venechuk (University of Chicago)
Individual Presentations:
- Barriers to Digital Health Utilization and Equity among Adults with HIV in New York City – Angela A. Aidala, Columbia University; Maiko Yomogida, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University; Lilian Ha; Iris Foster
- Elder Abuse and the Crisis of Institutional Neglect in Kwara State – Felicia Olabisi Awolola, Kwara State Polytechnic, llorin, Kwara State, Nigeria.
- Seven Ways Low-Income Older Adults Struggle with Food Pantries – Madonna Harrington Meyer, Syracuse University; Winston Junior Scott, Syracuse University
Table 13: Institutional Care Arrangements and Experiences
Table Presider:
Kevin Hans Waitkuweit (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Individual Presentations:
- Aging at the Margins: Integrated Inpatient and Hospice Care for Structurally Vulnerable Populations in Austria – Beate Kloesch; Markus Hadler, University of Graz (Austria)
- Beyond basic housing and care: Diverse forms of caregiving through homeshare programs with older adults – Angela Perone, University of California-Berkeley; Susanna Curry, California State University, Sacramento; Molly Calhoun, California State University, Chico; Leyi Zhou, University of California, Berkeley; Army Kieu Vi Ton Nu, University of California, Berkeley; Caitlin Subijanto, University of California, Berkeley
- Delimiting the Personal Care Gap: Findings from the 2025 National Survey on Health and Disability – Kevin Hans Waitkuweit, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Gender Expression, Personhood, and Dementia: How Gender-Centered Care Reinforces a Sense of Self – Syona Kiran Joshi, McMaster University; Enakshi Dua, York University
- Organizational Hierarchy, Work Environment, and Job Satisfaction in Dementia Care Settings – Yaqi(Sam) Yuan, Georgia Institute of Technology; Zhiyong Lin, University of Texas-San Antonio
- Organizational Power, Work Design, and Burnout Among Certified Nurse Aides in Long-Term Care – Momna Rani, University of North Texas
Table 14: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Aging
Table Presider:
Chunxu Fang (University at Albany, SUNY)
Individual Presentations:
- Are reports of divorce and widowhood consistent when collected prospectively versus retrospectively? – Sarah Burgard, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Peilin David Yang, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Cayley Ryan-Claytor, University of Michigan; Janet Wang, University of Michigan; Lucie Kalousova, Vanderbilt University
- Does Language Matter? Al Responses to Ageism Scales in English and Chinese – Chunxu Fang, University at Albany, SUNY; Pei-Chen Cheng, University at Albany, SUNY
- Framing old age in social gerontology – Neal King, Virginia Tech; Toni Calasanti, Virginia Tech
- Telling the Best Story: Data Richness from Phone Interviews and Online Surveys in Mixed-Method Network Research – J. Jill Suitor, Purdue University; Robert T Frase, Southern Illinois University; Ranran He, Purdue University; Di Wang, Purdue University; Sunjeong Gyeong, Purdue University; Tingan Jin, Purdue University; Taylor Pope, Purdue University; Destiny Marie Ogle, Purdue University; Megan Gilligan, University of Missouri; Shawn Bauldry, Purdue University
Aging and the Life Course Section Reception
7:30 to 9:00 pm, Hilton, Floor: Second Floor, Beekman
Tuesday, August 11th, 2026
Implications of Critical Events/Periods Across the Life Course
10:00am to 11:30am, Hilton, Floor: Second Floor, Nassau East
Presider:
Haowei Wang (Syracuse University)
Individual Presentations:
- Pandemic Pathways: Reframing the Transition to Adulthood Among College Students – Alexandra Elora Herron, University of Iowa
- Gains and Losses of Household Wealth and Cognitive Functioning in Mid-to-Later Life – Jessica Lily Warren, University of Washington; Hyungmin Cha, University of Washington
- Retirement Transition and Depression in China: A Gendered Life Course Perspective – Niantao Jiang; Yuying Tong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Constructing Parenthood as a Chronic and Cumulative Stressor: Duration of Parenthood and Body Mass Trajectories – Xiaoyi Cui, The Ohio State University
- Toward a Sociology of Never-Married Adulthood in Later Life: Live Experiences, Social Networks, and Health – Lijun Song, Vanderbilt University; Leping Wang, Vanderbilt University; Zhe Zhang, Vanderbilt University; Deborah Carr, Boston University; Siyun Peng, Indiana University-Bloomington; Brea Louise Perry, Indiana University-Bloomington; Qingxia Chen; Tara A. McKay, Vanderbilt University
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