Isolation, loneliness and the index of healthy aging - a comparison of Latvia and Iceland

The forum takes place in Icelandic and English.

Board of Directors: Sigurveig H. Sigurðardóttir, professor.

• 11:30 Light refreshments for seminar guests
• 12:00 Session – Halldór S. Guðmundsson, docent at the Department of Social Work at the University of Helsinki
• 12:10 Presentation of results: i. Comparative studies of the impact of Covid-19 on social isolation and loneliness among older people in Latvia and Iceland. (15 min). Lecturers: Madara Miķelsone, RSU PhD student.
  ii. Structure and usefulness of the Healthy Aging Index (15 min). Lecturers: Madara Miķelsone, PhD student and Andrejs Ivanovs head and researcher at the Institute of Statistics and Public Health at RSU and.
• 12:40 The labor market of older people and sustainability. Presentation of a new NordForsk research project. (15 min). Lecturers: Ieva Reine, researcher at the Department of Public Health and Care at Uppsala University and researcher at the Institute of Statistics and Public Health at RSU and Halldór S. Guðmundsson, associate professor at the University of Helsinki.
• 12:55 Questions and discussion (10-15 min)
• 13:10 End of the seminar, light refreshments.

Partners: Department of Social Work, University of Iceland, Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor Market, Ministry of Health, Union of Icelandic Municipalities, Association for Aging Studies, Riga Stradins University, Uppsala University.