Assoz. Prof. Dr. Valeria Bordone
Valeria Bordone

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Associate Professor for Life course, Generations, Ageing
Deputy Head - Department of Sociology

Team: https://www.soz.univie.ac.at/forschung/forschungsteams/team-bordone/

Research interests: intergenerational relationships, ageing and inequalities, population ageing, wellbeing/health, family sociology, life course

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Jessee, L., Bordone, V., & Hank, K. (2025). Adult intergenerational proximity and parents’ depressive symptoms: A bidirectional approach. Social Science Research, 125, Article 103094.

Cabaraban, M. K. S. I., Bordone, V., & Weber, D. (2025). Resource or crisis? Cognitive functioning after widowhood and why paid work status matters. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaf234


Di Gessa, G., Bordone, V., & Arpino, B. (2025). Trajectories of loneliness in later life - Evidence from a 10-year English panel study. Social Science & Medicine, Article 117703. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.117703

Arpino, B., Bordone, V., & Di Gessa, G. (2023). COVID-19 precautionary behaviors and vaccine acceptance among older individuals: The role of close kin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(13), Article e2214382120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2214382120

Bordone, V., Hank, K., Arpino, B., & Tomassini, C. (2023). Childcare by grandparents in the context of welfare state policies. In M. Daly, B. Pfau-Effinger, N. Gilbert, & D. J. Besharov (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Family Policy Over The Life Course (pp. 979–997). OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197518151.013.46

Di Gessa, G., Bordone, V., & Arpino, B. (2023). Changes in Grandparental Childcare During the Pandemic and Mental Health: Evidence From England. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, 78(2), 319-329. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbac104

Bordone, V., Gessa, G. D., & Hank, K. (2023). Family relations and health inequalities: Grandparents and grandchildren. In R. Hoffmann (Ed.), Handbook of Health Inequalities Across the Life Course (pp. 188-202). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800888166.00021

Zanasi, F., Arpino, B., Bordone, V., & Hank, K. (2023). The prevalence of grandparental childcare in Europe: A research update. European Journal of Ageing, 20(1), Article 37. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-023-00785-8


Gil-Clavel, S., Zagheni, E., & Bordone, V. (2022). Close Social Networks Among Older Adults: The Online and Offline Perspectives. Population Research and Policy Review, 41(3), 1111-1135. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-021-09682-3



Bordone, V., & Arpino, B. (2022). Is there a rejuvenating effect of (grand)childcare? A longitudinal study on German data. The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, 77(2), 446–455. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab021




Arpino, B., Pasqualini, M., Bordone, V., & Solé-Auró, A. (2021). Older People's Non-Physical Contacts and Depression During the COVID-19 Lockdown. The Gerontologist, 61(2), 176–186. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnaa144

Di Gessa, G., Bordone, V., & Arpino, B. (2020). Becoming a grandparent and its effect on well-being: the role of order of transitions, time, and gender. Journals of Gerontology. Series B: Psychological Sciences & Social Sciences, 75(10), 2250-2262. Article gbz135. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbz135


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Consequences of divorce: Heterogeneity by duration and gender (CONDIV)

Bordone, V. (Project Lead) & Berghammer, C. (Co-Lead)

1/07/2430/06/26

Project: Research funding


Alter und demografischer Wandel

Bordone, V. (Project Lead), Poller, C. (Project Staff) & Décieux, F. (Project Staff)

1/05/2430/11/24

Project: Research cooperation


CHIAS: Cognitive health in aging society - The role of context for cognitive functioning and related policy implications in Europe

Bordone, V. (Project Lead), Weber, D. (Co-Lead), Cabaraban, M. K. S. (Scientific Project Staff) & Hauer, K. (Scientific Project Staff)

1/02/2331/01/27

Project: Research funding


Older parents’ contact with children across Europe: Cross-national heterogeneity and measurement issues

Bordone, V. (Speaker)

5 Jun 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Older people’s social engagement since the Covid-19 pandemic: A socially stratified return to normal

Bordone, V. (Speaker)

9 May 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Older people’s social engagement since the COVID-19 pandemic: A socially stratified return to normal

Bordone, V. (Speaker)

25 Mar 2025

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Altersarmut: Eine soziodemografische Perspektive

Bordone, V. (Invited speaker)

26 Nov 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Do fertility intentions predict fertility behaviours? A Machine Learning approach

Bordone, V. (Speaker)

20 Nov 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Enkelkinderbetreuung und Wohlbefinden: Sind Veränderungen von Bedeutung?

Bordone, V. (Speaker)

18 Sept 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Grandparenting and Cognitive Functioning: Does It Matter What Grandparents and Grandchildren Do Together? Evidence from England

Bordone, V. (Speaker)

13 Jun 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Heterogeneities in the association between family transitions and late-life cognitive functioning in Europe: the role of activity status

Bordone, V. (Invited speaker)

14 Feb 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Grandparenting, well-being & cognitive functioning

Bordone, V. (Invited speaker)

2 Nov 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Gender differences in episodic memory and gender role attitudes in Europe

Bordone, V. (Speaker)

10 Oct 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Grandparental childcare, volunteering or both: how to better preserve cognitive functioning at older ages?

Bordone, V. (Speaker)

3 Feb 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Close kin influence on anti-COVID-19 precautionary behaviours and vaccination acceptance of older individuals

Bordone, V. (Speaker)

13 Jul 202215 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Changes in grandparenting during the COVID-19 pandemic and effects on mental health

Bordone, V. (Speaker)

29 Jun 20222 Jul 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Diskussion mit den Teilnehmer*innen

Bordone, V. (Speaker)

26 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Grandparental childcare and grandchildren’s school outcomes: does family socio-economic background matter?

Bordone, V. (Invited speaker)

5 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Close kin relationships in times of COVID-19: grandparental childcare, precautionary behaviours and vaccination acceptance of older individuals

Bordone, V. (Invited speaker)

31 Mar 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Die Rolle von intergenerationalen Beziehungen für Erwerbstätigkeit im Alter

Bordone, V. (Keynote speaker)

3 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Contacts with children and subjective wellbeing: Does the relationship differ between older migrants and natives?

Bordone, V. (Speaker)

2 Sept 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Bildung und Erwerbstätigkeit

Bordone, V. (Invited speaker)

30 Aug 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Macht COVID-19 Europa ungleicher?

Bordone, V. (Speaker)

3 May 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Expert meeting: Demography and the coronavirus pandemic

Bordone, V. (Invited speaker)

9 Nov 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Education and Ageing

Bordone, V. (Invited speaker)

22 Sept 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


The effect of grandparenthood on older people's cognitive functioning: does it matter what grandparents and grandchildren do together?

Bordone, V. (Speaker)

11 Nov 201912 Nov 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The rejuvinating effect of childcare for older people

Bordone, V. (Speaker)

7 Nov 20198 Nov 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Dicussion Forum Diversity

Bordone, V. (Invited speaker)

2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Department of Sociology

Deputy Head

Rooseveltplatz 2
1090 Wien
Room: R.318

T: +43-1-4277-49226

valeria.bordone@univie.ac.at