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#IAPHS2024 Plenary speaker Eileen Crimmins puts US life expectancy in context with the rest of the world. We are "not just the bottom of the pack, we're not even in the pack" despite tremendous spending on healthcare.

📢New brief featuring CAPS affiliates, @scottdlandes, Shannon Monnat & coauthor finds US adults w self-care disability report lower levels of happiness & meaning in life than those without self-care disability. Read more in the #SULerner Center for Aging and Policy Studies brief: doi.org/10.14305/rt.as…

Life course scholars et al., a great opportunity to learn about the strategies and challenges on comparative life course research @CWRUsociology Free to register!

White physicians shun Medicaid patients New study shows that Black and Latino physicians are bearing a disproportionate burden caring for patients most in need, with these physicians far likelier to accept Medicaid than their white peers. Link: axios.com/2024/09/24/doc…

I’m happy to share our new study on grandparenting and physical activity! We found that greater grandparenting intensity is linked w/ less physical activity. We also found racial/SES disparities and discussed these implications for families. Available now: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

.Yongxin Shang & @spattersearch used National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) to describe the prevalence of having someone as both a confidant and a caregiver for older adults and examine its association with subjective well-being myumi.ch/RmepN

New work from MiCDA U-M ISR UM SRC affiliate Vicki Freedman in Innovation in Aging Examining Care Network Characteristics in Older Adults' Relocation to Residential Care Settings myumi.ch/4jDrw

🚨POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY: UM Population Studies Center is offering two The National Institute on Aging (NIA)-funded T32 postdoc awards for research on aging. Please share! U-M ISR Info: psc.isr.umich.edu/training/postd… Apply via interfolio by Dec. 1, 2024: myumi.ch/zX23y

New work from MiCDA U-M ISR Michigan Public Health U-M Psychology UM SRC UM Population Studies Center Research Center for Group Dynamics affiliates Ketlyne Sol, Jacqui Smith, @EpiKobayashi, Laura Zahodne et al in Gerontology Research Interpersonal, Community & Societal Stressors Mediate Black-White Memory Disparities myumi.ch/bEwwx

I'm prepping for my place and health graduate seminar, and I am reminded of my most liked post. Social capital, will we ever truly know thee?

Most older adults live on fixed, often modest incomes, with budgets that can’t withstand rapid cost increases. But going without needed care can jeopardize their safety *and* put additional pressure on #familycaregivers to fill the gaps. #LTSS #inflation spr.ly/6013qPDAD

New work from MiCDA U-M ISR UM SRC affiliate Vicki Freedman et al in The Gerontologist (@geronmedia) Caregiving Trajectories and Unmet Care Needs in Later Life myumi.ch/N6Znq

📚🚀New work! Using time diary data, we find that 74% of U.S. older adults are actively engaged in social and productive activities, linked to better health. Yet, Black women benefit the least. Check out the paper below! Gerontology Research Gerontological Society of America (GSA) academic.oup.com/gerontologist/…

#JGSSAdvAccess research by Eun Young Choi & Jennifer Ailshire finds that stressful neighborhood environments accelerate epigenetic aging, with deprivation, disorder, & low social cohesion linked to faster aging. Gerontological Society of America (GSA) OUP Medicine doi.org/10.1093/geronb…

This is one of the scariest things we can think of.

Grandparents help grandkids in many ways, but the reverse may be true too. Less loneliness and better mental health seen among those who see or care for grandchildren often, according to new research from U-M IHPI and @UMichSPH prof Kate Bauer: myumi.ch/VGEJJ

I've used this space for over a dozen years to connect with colleagues and friends. It was instrumental to me as an ECR. I have met so many wonderful people on here. I hope we can continue to connect over at Bluesky (or LinkedIn).

New study shows that experiencing incarceration or homelessness—alone or together—is associated with earlier cognitive aging and dementia risk compared to those who experienced neither. - DW Hanes and S Clouston in The Gerontologist [HRS data, 1998–2018] academic.oup.com/gerontologist/…

In honor of #InternationalDayOfPersonsWithDisabilities Learn about the strong associations between childhood disabilities and maternal health outcomes among low SES families: bit.ly/3CMKUKi By Laurin Bixby Sociology at Penn ASA Medical Sociology