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​How are lifetime employment and different unpaid activities linked to trajectories of cognitive decline in later life? Is living in a partnership an asset for maintaining cognitive health in later life? Through which mechanisms is the benefit of living in a partnership mediated: healthy lifestyle, social support or financial resources? Do these patterns differ between men and women - and vary across the background of the cultural context, in which one lives?

Together with Anja Leist from the University of Luxembourg, I explore these questions based on SHARE data. We followed up on that question by looking at how gendered life courses - that is in the degree to which men and women participate in the labour market young adulthood and mid-life, and how they combine paid employment with unpaid work, such as looking after children or caring for someone with a health need - affect cognitive health in later life. Our study was published in the Europen Journal of Ageing. 

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Publications

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Bertogg, Ariane, Anja Leist. “Partnership and Cognitive Aging in Europe: Mediating Factors and Social Stratification”. Journal of Gerontology, Series B: Social Sciences, 76(6), 1173–1185.

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Bertogg, Ariane, and Anja K. Leist. Gendered life courses and cognitive functioning in later life: the role of context-specific gender norms and lifetime employment. European Journal of Ageing. Doi: https://10.1007/s10433-023-00751-4

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Bertogg, A., Tattarini, G., & Uccheddu, D. (2026). Understanding cognitive ageing: Individuals, institutions, and inequalities. Social Science & Medicine, 406, Article 119650.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2026.119650

Tattarini, G., Uccheddu, D., & Bertogg, A. (2026). Staying sharp: Gendered work–family life courses and later life cognitive functioning across four European welfare states.
American Journal of Epidemiology, 195(2), 442–454. https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwaf194

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Bertogg, A., & Stokes, J. E. (2026). Is there a cognitive footprint of political systems? The case of separation and reunification of East and West Germany and its association with later life cognitive health. Research on Aging, 48(7–8), 351–364. https://doi.org/10.1177/01640275251383810

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Bertogg, A., & Brandt, M. (2025). Socio-environmental crises and cognitive ageing: Exploring the cognitive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and climate crises on older
adults’ memory and verbal fluency. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 77, 849–879. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11577-025-01028-7
 

Bertogg, A., Präg, P., & Raiber, K. (2025). Dynamics of later-life caregiving and health: Insights from biomarker data and cognitive tests. Social Science

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