Dear all SIA colleagues and friends, We have been reached by the sad news that Barbro Westerholm, 89, died a few days ago. May she rest in peace. Those who participated in the final conference of the SIA programme in September were extremely lucky to have Barbro as our final panel. She participated the whole day, glad to have a day off from the not-so-pleasant election campaign and instead focusing on an important aspect of ageing research. As always, she was full of energy and eager that we all should do our best to disseminate our research to the political

Johan Fritzell, PI for the large-scale project Social Inequality in Ageing (SIA), in an interview in connection with the project coming to an end. The article was published on 6 January 2023 on Nordforsk’s website, “Ageing population putting welfare state under pressure”. Link to the news: English: Ageing population putting welfare state under pressure Norwegian: Eldrebølgen setter velferdsstaten under press