Publications

Key Projects

Priority Setting for Social Science Aging Research.

A Delphi analysis of the input of global leaders in the field of aging. 
PI: Jurgen Maurer, University of Lausanne. 
Funder: Velux Stiftung

Healthy Ageing in Europe: Intrinsic Capacity Norms, Disparities and Digital Assessments

Analysis of data from 14 European countries and Israel to map distributions of intrinsic capacity end explore socioeconomic determinants.
PI:  Katja Hanewald, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. 
Funder Velux Stiftung.   (Proj. 2054)

Multi-morbidity 3-City Alzheimer's Disease EHR Study (M3AD Study).

A study linking large datasets of electronic health records in New York, Chicago and Miami to examine patterns and determinants of Alzheimer’s Disease. 
PI: Moise Desvariuex. 
Funder: National Institutes of Health

Key Citations 

Chen M, Hanewald K, Si Y, Gu Y, Beard JR. Intrinsic Capacity Across 15 Countries in the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe. JAMA Network Open. 2025 May 1;8(5):e259792. PubMed PMID: 40354051.

Balachandran A, Pei H, Shi Y, Beard JR, Caspi A, Cohen A, Domingue BW, Eckstein Indik C, Ferrucci L, Furuya A, Kothari M, Moffitt TE, Ryan C, Skirbekk V, Zhang Y, Belsky DW. Pace of Aging in older adults matters for healthspan and lifespan. Nature Aging. 2025 May 26. doi: 10.1038/s43587-025-00866-6. Online ahead of print. PMID: 40419803

Alan A. Cohen, John R Beard, Luigi Ferrucci, Tamàs Fülöp, Vadim Gladyshev, Mahdi Moqri, Marcel G. M. Olde Rikkert, and Martin Picard. Balancing the promise and risks of geroscience.  Nature Aging 2025, 5, pages 4–8

John R Beard, Katja Hanewald, Yafei Si, Jotheeswaran Amuthavalli Thiyagarajan, Dario Moreno-Agostino.  Is 70 the new 60? A longitudinal analysis of cohort trends in intrinsic capacity in England and China.  Nature Aging 2025, 5, 87–98

Chen C, Lim J, Koh J, Beard JR, Rowe J.  Global and sex differences in adaptation to societal aging, a cross sectional comparison of 143 countries.  Nature Aging 2025, 5, pages 113–121

Wieczorek M, Kliegel M, Beard JR, Guillemin F, Avendano M, Maurer J.  Can ChatGPT provide useful guidance to assess the current state of and future priorities for aging research in the social sciences? Journal of Aging & Social Policy2024, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/08959420.2024.2422669

Beyene MB, Visvanathan R, Ahmed M, Benyamin B, Beard JR, Amare AT Development and Validation of an Intrinsic Capacity Score in the UK Biobank Study Maturitas 2024, 185, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.maturitas.2024.107976

de Souto Barreto P, Gonzalez-Bautista E, Bischoff-Ferrari HA, Pelegrim de Oliveira V, Bandeira de Mello RG, Berbon C, Tavassoli N, Beard JR, Rolland Y, Martín MES, Vellas B. Real-life intrinsic capacity screening data from the ICOPE Care program Nature Aging 2024 https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-024-00684-2

Rundle AG, Crowe RP, Wang HE, Beard JR, Lo AX. A National Study on the Comparative Burden of Pedestrian Injuries from Falls Relative to Pedestrian Injuries from Motor Vehicle Collisions.  Journal of Urban 2024 101 (1), 181-192

Giudici K, de Souto Barreto P, Guyonnet S, Beard JR, Takeda C, Cantet C, Andrieu S Vellas B.  Predictive capacity of the Integrated Care for Older People (ICOPE) screening tool for intrinsic capacity impairments: results from the INSPIRE-T cohort.  Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences.  2024, 79 (7) glae112 https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glae112

Beard JR. Beyond Integrated Care, Nature Aging 2024. 1-4.

Philipe de Souto Barreto, Yves Rolland, Luigi Ferrucci, Hidenori Arai, Heike Bischoff-Ferrari, Gustavo Duque, Roger A Fielding, John R Beard, John Muscedere, Felipe Sierra, Bruno Vellas, Nathan K LeBrasseur.  Looking at frailty and intrinsic capacity through a geroscience lens: the ICFSR & Geroscience Task Force.  Nature Aging 2023, 3 (12) 1474-1479

Fried LP, Henry M, Beard JR, Rowe JW.  Public Health 4.0: Creating health for longer lives.  Public Policy & Aging Report. 2023, 33 (3) 86-91.

E Gonzalez-Bautista, John R Beard.  The Challenge of Measuring Intrinsic Capacity.  The Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging 2023. 27 (10) 806-807

Ramírez-Vélez R , Iriarte-Fernandez M, Santafé G, Malanda A, Beard JR, Garcia-Hermoso A, Izquierdo M.  Association of intrinsic capacity with respiratory disease mortality.  Respiratory Medicine 2023. 212, 107243

Ramírez-Vélez R, Maria Iriarte-Fernández M,  Santafé G, Malanda A, Beard JR, Garcia-Hermoso A, Izquierdo M. Association of Intrinsic Capacity With Incidence and Mortality of Cardiovascular Disease: Prospective Study in UK Biobank. Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle.  2023. 14 (5) 2054-2063

Beard JR, Chen M.  Intrinsic Capacity as a Composite Outcome Measure: Opportunities and Challenges. Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging, 2023, 2023;27(6):398-400. DOI: 10.1007/s12603-023-1923-z

Yafei Si, Katja Hanewald, Shu Chen, Bingqin Li, Hazel Bateman, & John R. Beard. (2023). Life-course inequalities in intrinsic capacity and healthy ageing: retrospective evidence from pre-old and older populations in China.  Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 2023, 101 (‎5)‎, 307 - 316C.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7588511