December 18, 2025 | Defo News

Family, Birth Patterns Among Refugees, and Palliative Care for Dementia Patients

The new issue (No. 04/2025) of Demografische Forschung Aus Erster Hand, the popular science newsletter with latest research results from demography, has been released.

The Newsletter is available in German only.

The topics of the new issue are:

Family

Important relatives

Max-Planck-Institut für demografische Forschung (MPIDR)

Family research usually focuses on the nuclear family – father, mother and child(ren). Relationships with other relatives have hardly been studied to date. Yet these relationships play an important role.

MIGRATION

The birth behaviour of refugee women and men

Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung (BiB)

Refugee processes can influence when and how many children refugees have. A new study shows that there are significant gender differences.

PALLIATIVE CARE

Terminally ill patients do not receive the same level of care

Rostocker Zentrums zur Erforschung des Demografischen Wandels (RZ)

In a society where people live long lives, even with illness, good palliative care is very important. However, dementia patients receive it less often than other patients.

"Demografische Forschung Aus Erster Hand" is a joint publication of the Max Planck Institute for demographic Research (MPIDR), the Rostocker Zentrum zur Erforschung des Demografischen Wandels (RZ), the Vienna Institute of Demography (VID), the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital and the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB).

The newsletter is released four times a year and is available electronically and as a printed version and is free of charge.

It's definitely worth taking a look at the newsletter website - the editors have relaunched the site. The site now has many new features such as full-text search in all issues, all articles are tagged with keywords and all graphics are
can be accessed individually.