Aging

The Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging (MiCDA) is based at PSC. Key areas of research in aging include: health, work, and retirement; trends in disability; race, socioeconomic status and health; AIDS and the elderly; and international comparative studies. Michigan is home to key national surveys on aging, including the Health and Retirement Study and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. It also hosts the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging. MiCDA supports local pilot projects, workshops, research networks, and a statistical data enclave, and serves as coordinating center for the 13-center NIA demography program.

Funded Research and Affiliated Programs

Demographic Responses to Community and Family Context (Lee)

Economic and Health Determinants of Retirement Behavior Funding (Brown)

Exploring Relationships Between Adult Physical Activity and Perceived and Objective Measures of Community Environmental Characteristics

HANDLS (Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity Across the Lifespan) Sample Design and Selection (Lepkowski)

Health and Well Being Among Older-Old in United States and Japan (Liang)

Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity Across the Lifespan (HANDLS) Sample Design and Selection 2006-2007 (Lepkowski)

Immigrant Elders: Living Arrangements, 1850-2000 (Gutmann)

Internet Interviewing and the HRS (Willis)

Late-Life Health Trends: Disparities and Causes (Schoeni)

Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging (Bound)

Michigan Retirement Research Center

Neighborhoods and the Health of Elderly Americans (Schoeni)

Religion, Aging and Health (Krause)

TRENDS - Evaluating Old-Age Disability and Health Trends (Schoeni)

Understanding Social Disparities in Health and Aging (ACL) (Lantz)

Well-Being Among the Aged: Personal Control and Self-Esteem (Krause)


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Recent resources, events, news

New Publications

Bingenheimer & Geronimus, "Behavior & HIV"

Wildeman, "Imprisonment & Infant Mortality," PSC Research Report

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Arland Thornton & Barb Koremenos
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