Latin American Research Network on Ageing
Recent News
LARNA'S ACTIVITIES 2023-2025
Dear partners and collaborators: In recent years Larna has grown both quantitatively and qualitatively. We would like highlight some of these achievements: -New partners have joined to Lar...
Welcome to Population Ageing in Latin America
Population Ageing in Latin America shares academic activities and research of LARNA (Latin American Research Network on Ageing) at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxf...
Hybrid Visitors Programme launched
Our on-line Visitors Programme will reflect the Oxford experience with personal interaction with key academics, fellow visitors, access to a wide range of Oxford resources, seminars and workshops.&...
Gerontechnology can help people in Pandemic COVID-19 - Brazilian Note
The Brazilian Society of Gerontechnology, recognizing the gravity of the situation that both Brazil and the world are facing since the first cases of contagious by COVID-19, issued a note: GERON...
LARNA Workshop: Ageing in Latin America - crises, debates, paradigms
LARNA Workshop: Ageing in Latin America - crises, debates, paradigms will be held at the Campus of the University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Sede do Instituto de Estudos...
LARNA Network Meeting | University of Havana
The Conference “LIFE-LONG LEARNING AND ACTIVE AND PARTICIPATORY AGEING” was held on 23-26 May, 2017 in University of Havana, Cuba. The conference, under the chairmanship of Professor...
6th LARNA Conference Report
The VI Latin American Research Network on Ageing (LARNA) Congress and the II Congress ABRUNATI, held in Ponta Grossa, Brazil, October 4th – 7th 2016, were a great success. More than 500 deleg...
Eli Crespo | Universidad Mayor de San Andres, La Paz, Bolivia, passes away
It was with deep sadness that I learned of the sudden and most untimely death of my colleague Eli Crespo from the Universidad Mayor de San Andres, La Paz, Bolivia. I first met Eli at our LARNA conf...
6th LARNA Conference
The 6th LARNA (Latin American Research Network on Ageing) Conference will be held at the State University of Ponta Grossa, Brazil, from 4 to 6 October 2016. The Latin America Research Network on...
Master Classes at the University of Malaga
The Institute's Co-director, Dr. George W. Leeson, and Associate Research Fellow, Professor Alejandro Klein, have been visiting the University of Malaga, Spain, this week May 9th - 13th. Bot...
Second LARNA Workshop | La Paz, Bolivia
The 2nd LARNA workshop was held in La Paz, Bolivia on March 9th -11th 2016. This was attended by 80 delegates, mainly from Bolivia, but also with representatives from Mexico, Argentina, Peru and Pa...
Institute's Partnerships and Research Programmes in Mexico
The International Strategy Office at Oxford University has released a publication on long-standing Mexico-Oxford partnerships, featuring the Latin American Network on Ageing, directed by Dr George ...
Dr George Leeson appointed Visiting Professor of Demography at the University of Guanajuato, Mexico
Dr George Leeson has been appointed Visiting Professor of Demography at the University of Guanajuato - Leon, Mexico George Leeson coordinates LARNA, the Latin American Research Networ...
Third International LARNA Conference and Network Meeting
From the 10th to 11th November, the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing under the leadership of Dr George Leeson will be holding the 3rd LARNA Conference in 'Ageing in Latin America ...
'Ageing in Latin America': LARNA Conference, Mexico City, 6-8 October 2010
The second Oxford Institute of Ageing’s LARNA (Latin American Research Network on Ageing) conference is being held at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City from 6 to 8 O...
Oxford Conference a "First for Latin America"
The Latin American Conference on Ageing in Latin America, held at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City and organised by Oxford Institute of Ageing’s LARNA (Latin ...
Building the Research Agenda in Mexico
In April 2011, Dr George W Leeson, Co-Director, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing and Dr Alejandro Klein, Univ of Guanajuato-Leon (Mexico) continued to develop the research activities of the OI...
Ageing in Latin America and the Caribbean: Changes in Social Structure and Family Roles, Images of Ageing and the Public Policy Agenda
The Third LARNA Conference 'Ageing in Latin America and the Caribbean: Changes in Social Structure and Family Roles, Images of Ageing and the Public Policy Agenda,' hosted by the ...
British Academy Support for Demographic Ageing in Latin America
Dr George W Leeson, Deputy Director of the Oxford Institute of Ageing has just been awarded a British Academy Grant to carry out a scoping study of demographic ageing in Latin Americ...
Recent Blogs
The Importance of Family in Latin America
This is the story of our times, the story of the family, once a dense cluster of many siblings and extended kin, fragmenting into ever smaller and more fragile forms. The initial result of that fra...
Multigenerational households as a solution to the economic crisis in Brazil?
The economic crisis in Brazil has received much attention in the media recently, with the Tullet Prebon Brasil Report demonstrating that the country currently has the minimum wage with the lowest p...
Intergenerational baiting and "being cringe" in Brazil
Last week in the Institute blog Christian Langkamp highlighted some of the reasons for growing intergenerational tensions in Germany. I want to look at Brazil, and especially the way that &ls...
Grandparents’ Day in Brazil
It’s often said that in Brazil we have a holiday for everything. So how we could miss the opportunity to celebrate - in addition to Mother's, Father's or Family Day - Grandparents'...
Great-grandparents in Brazil?
It is a common misconception that Brazil is a young country with a long way to go before it has to tackle the challenges of population ageing. The data tell a different story. According to Institut...
Rainy season in Costa Rica
The Institute’s Collen Research Programme in Sub-Saharan Africa[1] has recently been extended into Latin America thanks to additional funding from the European Foundation Life Sciences resear...