Giovanni Lamura

Research affiliate

EDUCATION

Degree in Economics at the University of Ancona (Italy) and Ph.D. in 'Life course and social policy' at the University of Bremen (Germany)

LANGUAGES

Italian (mother tongue), English and German, French

CONTACT

Phone:

+43 1 319 45 05-0

Email: 

european.centre@euro.centre.org

 

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Family and long-term care of dependent older people; work-life balance; migrant care work; prevention of elder abuse and neglect; ICT-based initiatives to support informal carers; intergenerational solidarity; interdisciplinary research on ageing in general.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Basu, I., & Lamura, G. (2026). The neglected reality of older South Asians with dementia and their caregivers living as ethnic minority in diaspora: A scoping review. Geriatric Nursing, 69, 103868. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gerinurse.2026.103868

Casanova, G., Fattorini, G., Santini, S., Balietti, M., Barboni, I., Giacconi, R., & Lamura, G. (2026). Loneliness among community-dwelling older adults across biological, clinical and psychosocial domains before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review. Frontiers in Public Health, 14, 1831731. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2026.1831731

Albertini, M., Tomassini, C., Bandini, S., Chattat, R., Domenicali, M., Lamura, G., Meli, E., Testa, G., & Zanasi, F. (2025). Caring in the XXI century: The sustainability of long-term care in aging societies—Mapping challenges and developing solutions within the Age-It Research Program. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 80 (Suppl. 2), S158–S168. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaf193

Casanova, G., Lillini, R., & Lamura, G. (2024). Characteristics of Italian, German and Spanish socio-economic, public health and long-term care systems associated with COVID-19 incidence and mortality in the first pandemic year: Lessons for future sustainability in an international perspective. Healthcare, 12 (19), 2006. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12192006 PMID: 39408186; PMCID: PMC11477070.

Tur-Sinai, A., Bentur, N., Fabbietti, P., & Lamura, G. (2024). Comparing the cross-national impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on care received by community-dwelling older adults in 2020 and 2021: Restoring formal home care versus polarizing informal care? European Journal of Ageing, 21, 6. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-024-00800-6

Hassan, A. Y. I., Bronzini, M., & Lamura, G. (2023). Digital technologies as sources of information for patients and caregivers during COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional survey. Digital Health, 9. https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076231156214

Tur-Sinai, A., Teti, A., Rommel, A., Hlebec, V., & Lamura, G. (2020). How many older informal caregivers are there in Europe? Comparison of estimates of their prevalence from three European surveys. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17 (24), 9531. PMID: 33352669; PMCID: PMC7767284. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17249531

Lamura, G., Di Rosa, M., Papa, R., Poli, A., & Barbabella, F. (2019). Implications of the use of migrant care work and web-based services on family caregivers’ health. International Journal of Care and Caring, 3 (1), 97–116. https://doi.org/10.1332/239788218X15411704575048