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Enhancing Cognitive and Emotional Health in Older Immigrants: Results from a Randomized Clinical Trial

Seminar

Series: SEMILUX - Monthly Seminar on Social Inequality and Public Policies

English

Enhancing Cognitive and Emotional Health in Older Immigrants: Results from a Randomized Clinical Trial

When:

WED, 18 MAR 2026

From:

3:30 PM

To:

5:00 PM

Where:

Hybrid

The University of Luxembourg, LIS Datacenter and LISER invite you for a hybrid session of the monthly seminar on social inequality and public policies, which will be held ONLINE and IN-PERSON.

Enhancing Cognitive and Emotional Health in Older Immigrants: Results from a Randomized Clinical Trial

Aging is often accompanied by increased vulnerability in both cognitive and emotional domains, particularly among individuals exposed to chronic stress, socioeconomic disadvantage, and limited access to resources - conditions frequently experienced by immigrant populations. Lifestyle based interventions, such as mindfulness training and multidomain health promotion programs, have gained attention as promising strategies to support cognitive and emotional health. Yet, these approaches remain largely untested in vulnerable populations, such as older immigrants. In this session, I will present MEDITAGING, a randomized, double blind clinical trial comparing an 8 week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program with a Health Promotion Program among older immigrants in Luxembourg. The study integrates cognitive, physiological, and affective measures assessed at baseline, post intervention, and follow up. The session will explore the main results of the trial, highlighting the cognitive and emotional outcomes observed across both interventions, as well as the challenges and practical considerations involved in implementing such programs in a real-world community setting.

Webex link: https://unilu.webex.com/unilu/j.php?MTID=m027dbd571ef02e910eacbe0cab25ff4d

Speaker

Ana Carolina Teixeira Santos

Research scientist at IRSEI, University of Luxembourg

Ana Carolina Santos is a research scientist at IRSEI, University of Luxembourg. Her work examines ageing, health promotion, and health disparities at the intersection of social vulnerability and migration. She is a psychologist by training and holds a PhD in Basic Psychology from the University of Minho, Portugal. She is also trained and has teaching experience in Clinical Trials through the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Ana Carolina has led different projects aiming to promote health in vulnerable older adults and is currently Principal Investigator of the IMILUX Project, an FNR CORE Junior grant investigating health disparities in older immigrants through primary qualitative data collection and complementary secondary data analysis.

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