The focus is on frailty, its opportunities and boundaries. We will discuss frailty from various perspectives, including risk factors, frailty in research, and how to handle frailty in clinical practice.

Speakers: Professor Tommy Cederholm (Sweden), Professor Dawn Skelton (UK), Niklas Ekerstad, MD, PhD (Sweden), Professor Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas (Spain), Doctoral student Amelie Lindh Mazya, MD (Sweden) and Professor Timo Strandberg (Finland)
Chair: Anne W Ekdahl, Helsingborg, Sweden
Co-hosts: Swedish frailty network

Focusing on agentic capability or the personal capability to master gains and losses and at the same time experience wellbeing.

Chair: Hanna Falk, AgeCap & University of Gothenburg.
Co-hosts: Helle Wijk, University of Gothenburg; Anna-Karin Edberg, Kristianstad University; Jimmie Kristensson, Lund University; Anneli Orrung Wallin; Kristianstad University
Gothenburg

Here we focus on cultural representations of age and ageing, discrimination and ageism, digital inequalities, and medical humanities. This is a collaborative meeting with the Aging Graz Research Group at C.IAS – Center for Inter-American Studies, University of Graz and AgeCap (Centre for Ageing and Health), University of Gothenburg.

Chair: Maria Edström and Eva-Maria Svensson, AgeCap & University of Gothenburg.
Co-hosts: AGEDEM, Faculty of Social Science (Department of Political Science and Department of Journalism, Media and Communication) and Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, Department of Law)

A long life is no longer the privilege of a selected few. Current demographics, however, requires a historical perspective in which we link the present and the past to achieve an understanding of future challenges.

Chair: Ulrika Lagerlöf Nilsson and Helene Castenbrandt, AgeCap & University of Gothenburg
Co-hosts: Department of Historical Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Gothenburg

Extended working lives are proposed to secure the sustainability of pension systems in ageing societies. This interdisciplinary workshop will focus on the ageing work force, late working careers, and determinants of retirement transitions.

Chair: Stefanie König, AgeCap & Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg
Co-hosts: Marcus Praetorius Björk for AgeCap Greenhouse

Improved psychological expertise on older adults is needed and we will discuss these demands, educational activities, specialization in geropsychology and the need for adjustments of psychological interventions to these needs.

Chair: Anne Ingeborg Berg, AgeCap & the Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg; Birgitta Ingridsdotter The Swedish Association of Geropsychology (SGF); and Sara Hed AgeCap & the Psychiatric clinic for older adults, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg.
Co-hosts: The Swedish Association of Geropsychology (SGF), the Psychiatric clinic for older adults, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, and the Department of Psychology, University of Gothenburg

Eldercare is in a transition with various models for receiving, providing and organizing homebased eldercare. We will especially focus on intercultural and cross-cultural variations of homebased eldercare.

Chair: Lotta Dellve and Karin Allard, Agecap and University of Gothenburg
Co-hosts: LEXLIV. Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg