Workshop and Journal of Aging & Social Policy Special Issue on Aging and End of Life Care: Global Perspectives on Care Provision, Quality, Costs, and Technology

Yale Workshop and Journal of Aging & Social Policy (JASP) Special Issue on Aging and End of Life Care: Global Perspectives on Care Provision, Quality, Costs, and Technology

To participate, please email jaspeol863@gmail.com no later than Thursday (November 6) to help workshop preparation.

Workshop Agenda:

Day 1 – Monday, 10 November 2025

09:00 – 09:15

Welcome and introduction: Xi Chen (Yale University)

Opening Remarks: Terri Fried (Yale University)

Bei Wu (New York University)

Session 1: Advance Directives and End-of-Life Planning

Chair: Wei Yang (King’s College London)

09:15 – 09:45 Yifan Lou (Virginia Commonwealth University), Zhuoer Lin, Bei Wu, Zoljargalan Gantumur, Xi Chen – Does Cognitive Misperception Impact the Timing of Advance Directive Completion?

09:45 – 10:15 Kaipeng Wang (University of Denver), Anao Zhang, and Bei Wu – Advance Directive Completion among Older Southeast Asian Americans: The Case of Vietnamese and Filipino Populations

10:15 – 10:45 Yuting Qian (Yale University), Jonathan Skinner, Jason Hockenberry, and Xi Chen – The Impact of Timely Dementia Diagnosis on End-of- Life Planning: Evidence from HRS–Medicare Linked Data

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break

Session 2: Cognition, Frailty, and End-of-Life Care Utilization

Chair: Huiwen Xu (Emory University)

11:00 – 11:30 Mengyao Wang (Yale University) and Chenkai Wu – Frailty and End-of-Life Care Utilization and Costs: Comparative Evidence from China and Mexico

11:30 – 12:00 Xin Feng, Chengxu Long, and Wei Yang (King’s College London) – Place of Death and End-of-Life Expenditures Among Older Adults in China

12:00 – 12:30 Ming Gu (Kunshan Duke University), Xian Zhang, Jiayin Bian, Kate Bundorf, and Lijing Yan – Beyond Autonomy: The Role of Cognitive Impairment in Shaping End-of-Life Care Intensity

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break

Session 3: Dementia, Family Decision-Making, and Cultural Contexts

Chair: Xi Chen (Yale University)

13:30 – 14:00 Jing Wang (University of New Hampshire), Jiang Huang, Bei Wu, Laura Hanson, Dena Schulman-Green, Yaolin Pei – Family Communication and Decision-Making in Feeding Options for Chinese American Persons with Advanced Dementia

14:00 – 14:30 Annabel Farnood (King’s College London), Ankita Bhojwani, Bridget Johnston, Nathan Davies, Charles Reilly, Catherine Evans– Co-Designing a Virtual Platform to Support Family Carers for People with Dementia

14:30 – 15:00 Yixuan Wang (Colorado State University), Xiaoyi Zeng, and Jennifer Currin-McCulloch – The Prospect of Assisted Dying Policy in Mainland China: Implications for Culturally Responsive End-of-Life Care

15:00 – 15:20 Coffee Break, Group Photo

Session 4: Early Career “Egg Timer” Presentations (10 minutes each)

Chair: Hanzhang Xu (Duke University)

15:20 – 15:30 Xian Zhang (University of Rochester) – Cognitive Frailty and Socioeconomic Disparities in End-of-Life Care: Evidence from Three Countries

15:30 – 15:40 Xiaoyi Zeng, Peiyuan Zhang, Jing Wang, Dena Schulman-Green, Bei Wu, Laura Hanson, Yaolin Pei (The University of Texas at Austin) – Culturally Responsive Practices Supporting Chinese American Family Caregivers’ Feeding Decisions in Advanced Dementia: A Qualitative Study

15:40 – 15:50 Peiyuan Zhang (University of Alabama), Xiaoyi Zeng, Jing Wang, Bei Wu, Dena Schulman-Green, Laura Hanson, Yaolin Pei – Sociocultural Considerations in Decision-Making on Feeding Options among Chinese Americans with Advanced Dementia

15:50 – 16:00 Discussion, Q&A

16:00 – 18:00 Campus Tour 18:00 Dinner, by Invitation

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Day 2 – Tuesday, 11 November 2025

Session 5: Policy, Systems, and Technology in End-of-Life Care

Chair: Fei Sun (Michigan State University)

9:00 – 9:30 Jiameng Yuan (Duke University), Marcus Eng Hock, and Hanzhang Xu – Early Identification of End-of-Life Patients in Emergency Care: A Retrospective Machine Learning Study from Singapore

9:30 – 10:00 Ellis Dillon (University of Connecticut), Doreek Charles, Germine Soliman, Julie Robison– Nursing Home, Hospice Agency, and Healthcare Policy Influences on Hospice Care for Individuals with Nursing Home Stays Near the End of Life

10:00 – 10:30 Fei Sun, Jin Ke, and Jun Chu (University of Maryland) – Preliminary Effects of China’s 2017 Hospice Care Policy on End-of-Life Patient Outcomes, Caregiver Burden, and Healthcare Expenditures

10:30 – 11:00 Anna Bone (King’s College London), P May, M Dabbous, T Khatun, D Yi, CJ Evans, J Bayly, N Gough, M Ogden, C Ewart, C Ellis-Smith, IJ Higginson– Integrated Palliative Care for Older Adults with Advanced Disease in Care Homes: A Multi-Method Study with Early Economic Analysis

Session 6: Reflections and Next Steps for the JASP Special Issue

11:00 – 11:30 Discussions: Guest Editors, Authors, Reviewers

11:30 – 11:40 Closing Remarks: Wei Yang (King’s College London)

11:40 – Boxed Lunch, Departure

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