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LISER - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research @liser.lu · 01/10/2026

📢 For International Day of Older Persons (October 1), the LISER Policy Lab team is pleased to share a 🆕 Policy Brief "Diversifying engagement, strengthening society: Volunteering by older people in #Luxembourg " by M. N. Pi Alperin using @share-eric.bsky.social data. 🔗 www.liser.lu/en/news/poli...

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Participation in hobbies varies considerably across the world and has long been linked to slower cognitive decline... But can having hobbies help the brain bounce back once decline has already begun? 💪 ➡️ Read our finding of the month: share-eric.eu/research-res...

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Hobbies linked to slower cognitive decline and more frequent return to normal test scores

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Read the report at: www2.census.gov/library/publ... Citation: Rachel Bacon, Daniel Goodkind, Paul Kowal, Anne Morse, and Mitali Sen U.S. Census Bureau, International Population Reports, P95/26-1, An Aging World: 2025, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Washington, DC. Übersetzung anzeigen

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀 (𝟲𝟱+) 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝟬 𝘁𝗼 𝟱 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱𝘄𝗶𝗱𝗲 The U.S. Census Bureau has recently released the report “𝗔𝗻 𝗔𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱: 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱” showing projections of the world’s population until 2060. SHARE was one of the datasets used for the report.

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“SHARE in numbers” provides key metrics like user growth, engagement with policy actors, and publications using #SHAREdata. Did you know?

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Everything about SHARE’s Communications, Scientific Dissemination, Web Presence, PR materials, the SHARE Working Paper Series and the SHARE International Seminar Series can be found in the operations chapter.

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

From research to practice: discover how #SHAREdata supports policy design amidst Europe's ageing population and societal challenges. With comprehensive data, SHARE contributes to evidence-based policymaking at national, European, and global levels.

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The scientific overview of our report highlights the Fieldwork in Wave 10, the multi-mode future in SHARE, software and questionnaire innovations for SHARE Wave 11, advancements in record linkage projects and information about SHARE-CoRaL.

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Our new Annual Activity Report puts a special focus on the SoGreen project, which is a European research collaboration integrating Europe’s four leading social science surveys to track how people across Europe experience and respond to climate change and the green transition.

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Our new Annual Activity Report is available! It provides an overview of the scientific, operational, and financial proceedings of SHARE in 2025. Read about the latest developments of SHARE in the full report here: share-eric.eu/fileadmin/us...

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We discuss why handedness matters at all, and a curious quirk in the results for individuals who self-identify as ambidextrous, here: share-eric.eu/research-res... 3/3 #verbalmemory #handedness #lefthanded #SHAREdata #ageingresearch

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No verbal memory difference between left-handed, right-handed and ambidextrous older adults

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Our finding of the month for August comes from Dr Annukka Lindell (@latrobe.edu.au) who used a huge sample from SHARE to see whether older adults enjoy memory advantages based on their dominant hand. 2/3

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

👋 Left-handers, right-handers and mixed-handers often display different cognitive strengths relative to each other. These kind of quirks become extra relevant when studying ageing populations at risk of cognitive decline... 1/3

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

📢 We are hiring | Student Assistant – Scientific Dissemination The SHARE Berlin Institute is looking for a motivated Student Assistant (m/f/d) to join our team working on Scientific Dissemination. Interested? Find out more at: share-eric.eu/news-events/...

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Job Offer: Student Assistant Public Relations

Support SHARE in PR and press matters!

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

📢 Calling all ageing and longevity academic researchers Since April 2026, SHARE has offered 21 blood-based biomarkers including flagship neurodegeneration markers alongside metabolic markers and immune signalling markers. Learn about the full collection here: share-eric.eu/data/data-se...

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Gerontology Research @geronmedia.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Widowed men & women grieve differently. #JGSSAdvAccess research shows men expand networks (especially with kids) & women increase community involvement. Just different ways of rebuilding based on gendered roles. buff.ly/lcYyRxF @geronsociety.bsky.social @academic.oup.com @share-eric.bsky.social

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Life after loss: Gendered changes in social networks and community participation around widowhood

AbstractObjectives. This study examined how widowhood shapes older adults' close network composition and quality and community participation, and whether t

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘂𝗻𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗹𝘆 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝘆 𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀 Our new finding of the month is based on a study that tracked over 14,000 older Europeans to see who ends up medicated for depression or anxiety after losing a job: share-eric.eu/research-res...

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Persistent unemployment is more strongly linked to medication use among highly educated older adults

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Finding of the month: 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘂𝗻𝗲𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗹𝘆 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝘆 𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗱𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀 💊 Lisa Colman and colleagues at Ghent University tracked over 14,000 older Europeans to see who ends up medicated for depression or anxiety after losing a job... 1/2

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Bruno Arpino @brunoarpino.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

We used data from @share-eric.bsky.social wave 9 and @ess-survey.bsky.social round 10, covering parents aged 60+ in 23 European countries. The goal was descriptive but important: update what we know about parent–child contact and proximity, and check how much survey measurement matters.

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

People aged 50+, from well-off families as children, scored about 1.2 points higher on a 10-word memory test than those who grew up poor. **But** each additional year that a country delayed tracking worked to shrink this gap. Read our analysis ➡️: share-eric.eu/research-res...

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Sorting schoolchildren later may help level the cognitive playing field in old age

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Earlier age at sorting has repeatedly been found to reduce later social mobility. Researcher Filippo da Re (University of Padua) and colleagues turned the focus from socioeconomic outcomes to health. Does educational tracking cast a long shadow all the way to the ageing brain? 2/3

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

*Finding of the Month: Sorting schoolchildren later may help level the cognitive playing field in old age* Some countries, like Germany, sort students into separate schools early, by perceived ability, at around ages 10 to 12. Other countries do this much later, if at all. 1/3

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The new World Economic Forum report "The Longevity Dividend: The Business Case for Linking Health and Wealth" argues that enabling people to stay healthy for longer is one of the most effective and valuable investments a society can pursue: www.weforum.org/publications...

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The Longevity Dividend

Three low-tech interventions could save the world’s healthcare systems more than $5.8 trillion and unlock another $645 billion in productivity by 2040. Fall-proofing homes, increasing levels of physic...

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Interested in the topic of social aspects of the green transition? Visit the SoGreen website (lnkd.in/dde-9f_8) to learn more about the project and subscribe to the SoGreen newsletter (lnkd.in/eGsJtMb4) to stay up to date with the latest developments and findings.

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The SoGreen consortium, comprising SHARE, @ess-survey.bsky.social, @ggp.bsky.social and @guide-cohort.bsky.social is meeting in Brussels to discuss the outcomes of the first half of the project and the plans for its second phase with Project Officer Tiziana della Ragione.

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This will be the last SHARE International Seminar before we have a break for the summer. See you all back in September!

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

... like sifting existing drugs for new uses against dementia 💊, to learning from the signals that wearable devices (like smartwatches) collect ⌚, to putting large language models to work in mental health education 🏫.

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

🚨𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸'𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿: "𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝗻 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲-𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵: 𝗢𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀" Prof. Shanquan Chen will take us through research using SHARE data, before broadening out to other exciting applications across different datasets that show just how varied this field has become...

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Researchers Raffaele Fiorentino and Simona Mandile used SHARE data to track what happened to the men who narrowly missed out. Read the full story ➡️: share-eric.eu/research-res...

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Italy's early retirement reform harmed both workers and the party that designed it

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

With the introduction of "Quota 100" in 2019, workers could retire early if they were 62+ with 38 years of contributions. Around 380,000 people took it. But workers born after 1960 were categorically excluded, regardless of how long they'd paid in.

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

🎯 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵: 𝗜𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘆'𝘀 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘁 Fascinating research out of Italy this month. In 2019, against a broader European trend of rising retirement ages, Italy's government tried something a little different...

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

🌍 Why Open Geospatial Data Matters for Research & Impact In a new blog from the SoGreen project, Nykyta Polituchyi (SGH Warsaw School of Economics) shows how combining geospatial and survey data moves research beyond abstract insights: sogreen-project.eu/blog/mapping...

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Mapping the Green City: Opening Up Geospatial Data for Survey Research • SoGreen

An interview with Nykyta Polituchyi, Research Assistant at SGH Warsaw School of Economics The SoGreen project is built on a fundamental question: how does the physical environment of a city shape the ...

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

🎯 Finding of the Month: Europe's older adults are getting smarter each generation – but not across the board In the first large-scale Flynn effect study in adults 50+, researchers analysed 128,000+ people across 22 European countries over nearly two decades. share-eric.eu/research-res...

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Europe's older adults are getting smarter each generation – but not across the board

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

"Using SHARE data, covering 27 countries in Europe, we show that (a) support provided to individuals outside the household is associated with increased grandparental child care, whereas (b) family care provided within the household is not" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Our 𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 speaker for May, Assistant Professor Giammarco Alderotti from University of Florence, will be exploring the diffusion and determinants of grey divorce in the context of longer life expectancies. Register here:

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The term grey divorce refers to marital dissolutions occurring among older adults, typically aged 50 and above (sometimes 60+). Grey divorces—or, more broadly, “silver splits,” a term that also encompasses separations—have been extensively studied in the United States, whereas they remain a ...

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

📆 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝘆 𝗗𝗶𝘃𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 Grey divorces—or, more broadly, “silver splits,” a term that also encompasses separations—have been extensively studied in the United States, whereas they remain a relatively recent and less explored phenomenon in Europe.

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

We are delighted to have participated in yesterday's “Design-Focused Workshop on Panel Retention in Ageing Surveys” in Lausanne, Switzerland. This inspiring event brought together experts and practitioners to discuss challenges and explore ways of maintaining participant engagement over time.

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

📖 Read the full study here: Sun & Xi (2025) Reading Roots of Resilience

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Sun & Xi point to a low-cost policy implication: increasing access to books in childhood doesn't require a large budget, yet the cognitive benefits extend well into later life. #HealthyAgeing #CognitiveHealth

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

What makes this research possible is SHARE's life history data. SHARELIFE interviews capture childhood conditions – including books at home at age 10 – while later SHARE waves track health, lifestyle and cognition. That combination lets researchers look across an entire life course. 🔍

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Even a modest collection of books – enough to fill one bookshelf – matters for better cognitive functioning after the age of 60. The benefit is strongest for those with the lowest educational attainment. 📈

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Researchers Haosen Sun (University of Nevada, Reno) & Yueming Xi (University of Toronto) find that growing up with more books is associated with higher cognitive functioning in later life – independently of education, childhood socioeconomic status, and health.

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Books connect us across time and generations. They also leave a lasting imprint on how our brains age. New research using SHARE shows how books in childhood affect later-life cognitive health. 📚 #WorldBookDay #SHAREdata

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

This is a surprising and important distinction for how we think about social isolation as a risk factor for dementia, which researchers will need to unpack carefully going forward.

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The study, using seven years of data from over 10,000 people aged 65–94 across 12 European countries, found that while loneliness is associated with worse memory at the outset, it does not actually appear to speed up the rate of memory decline over time.

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Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) @share-eric.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

📰In The Independent today: New findings from our data are challenging long held assumptions about the relationship between loneliness and cognitive decline in older adults. @the-independent.com

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