Pilar Zueras
Centre for Demographic Studies / Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics (CED)
Pilar Zueras
Pilar Zueras is a social demographer interested in the study of population ageing and the wellbeing and health of middle-aged and older adults. She holds a BA in Sociology and PhD in Demography (2014, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona). She has been visiting pre-doc and post-doc researcher at various European institutions of population studies in France, Germany, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. She has been a researcher at the Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC) at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex (UK) in 2020-22. Since 2025 she is a Ramón y Cajal Fellow at the Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) in Barcelona, where she co-leads the research team on ‘Older adults Care’.
FURTHER INFORMATION
| Countries | Spain; |
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| Topics | Ageing in place; Care inequalities; Care needs poverty and deprivation; Epidemiology and ageing trajectories; Gender and care; Social connection; Unmet needs; Unpaid / informal care; |
| Methods | Causal inference in Long-Term Care; Longitudinal data analysis; Prevalence study; |
| Role | Research; |
| Interest Groups | Ageing and Place; Long-Term Care in Spain; |
| Website | https://ced.cat/en/directori/pilar-zueras-castillo/ |
| ORC.ID | 0000-0002-3345-8865 |
| GOOGLE SCHOLAR | https://scholar.google.es/citations?hl=es&user=0eBBlc0AAAAJ |
| Research interests | Population ageing; Health (disability, chronic conditions, mental health, overall health); Healthy life expectancy; Caregiving, Unmet care needs; Social connectedness; Living arrangements; Family Caregiving |
| Key publications | Zueras, P., & Grundy, E. (2024). Assessing the impact of caregiving for older parents on caregivers’ health: Initial health status and trajectories of physical and mental health among midlife caregivers for parents and parents-in-law in Britain. Social Science & Medicine, 342, 116537. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2023.116537 Calderón-Jaramillo, M., Zueras, P. Cared and uncared populations: understanding unmet care needs of older adults (65+) across different social care systems in Europe. Eur J Ageing 20, 11 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-023-00760-3 Spijker, J., & Zueras, P. (2020). Old-age care provision in Spain in the context of a new system of long-term care and a lingering economic crisis. Journal of Population Ageing, 13(1), 41-62. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12062-018-9232-8 Zueras, P., Spijker, J., & Blanes, A. (2018). Evolución del perfil de los cuidadores de personas de 65 y más años con discapacidad en la persistencia de un modelo de cuidado familiar. Revista Española de Geriatría y Gerontología, 53(2), 66-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regg.2017.07.004 Spijker, J., Devolder, D., & Zueras, P. (2022). The impact of demographic change in the balance between formal and informal old-age care in Spain. Results from a mixed microsimulation–agent-based model. Ageing & Society, 42(3), 588-613. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X20001026 |