Contact: Jared Wadley, 734-834-7719, [email protected] ANN ARBOR—When older adults move to a new location far from their residence, their friends should not expect too many telephone calls or visits, according to a new University of Michigan study. U-M researchers examined changes in the frequencies of in-person, telephone and written or email contact with friends among… Continue reading Relocation later in life and contact frequency with friends: Do contact modes matter?
News Tag: Aging & Retirement
Calculate your neighborhood’s ‘cognability’
Contact: Morgan Sherburne, 734-647-1844, [email protected] ANN ARBOR—Does your neighborhood help protect your cognitive health as you age? A new tool, an interactive map developed by University of Michigan researchers, allows you to plug in your address and assess how your neighborhood could support healthy cognitive aging under a theory U-M scientist Jessica Finlay and colleagues… Continue reading Calculate your neighborhood’s ‘cognability’
NIA R24 grant to fund five-year methodological research network
Contact: Jon Meerdink, [email protected] ANN ARBOR — The National Institute on Aging has awarded a five-year R24 grant to a team from the Institute for Social Research intended to advance the methodological techniques used in longitudinal studies of aging. The team, which includes Brady West, Sunghee Lee, and Esther Friedman, will work to build a network… Continue reading NIA R24 grant to fund five-year methodological research network
Fulbright Student joins ISR to Study Aging at HRS
ANN ARBOR – Irish Fulbright Student Awardee Dr. Claire Potter will be traveling to the Institute for Social Research (ISR) to further her studies in 2023. A second year PhD student in the Centre of Public Health at the Queen’s University Belfast, Dr. Potter’s research involves studying life-course impact of stress and negative psychological experiences… Continue reading Fulbright Student joins ISR to Study Aging at HRS
NIH Grant in Kenya to Enhance Understanding of Aging in Africa
ANN ARBOR – With support from Center for Global Health Equity, an international team of researchers has received a $338k grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to address major gaps in population-level data on aging in Kenya, one of Africa’s most populous nations. The NIH grant supports pilot work to lay groundwork for… Continue reading NIH Grant in Kenya to Enhance Understanding of Aging in Africa
Researchers Use National Study to Enhance Understanding of Late-Life Disability and Care
Contact: Todd Kluss [email protected] (202) 587-2839 A new supplemental issue to The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences features papers examining outcomes from 10 years of the seminal National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS). NHATS, funded by the National Institute on Aging, is designed to foster a deeper understanding of… Continue reading Researchers Use National Study to Enhance Understanding of Late-Life Disability and Care
Neighborhoods play important role in older adults’ pandemic experience
ANN ARBOR—How have older adults adjusted to living under the pandemic? There’s no one-size-fits-all experience, according to University of Michigan researchers. In spring and summer 2020, U-M researchers Jessica Finlay and Lindsay Kobayashi launched a study to examine how the COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed neighborhood environments and the way older adults age in place.… Continue reading Neighborhoods play important role in older adults’ pandemic experience
High-need older adults in stepfamilies less likely to receive help from children
ANN ARBOR—As people age and require more care, their partners or adult children are often their front line of caretakers. But as divorce has become more common among older adults, University of Michigan researchers sought to understand the role of stepchildren in providing care for their aging stepparents. The researchers, led by family demographer Sarah… Continue reading High-need older adults in stepfamilies less likely to receive help from children
Communities for cognitive aging: How neighborhoods may protect the cognitive health of older Americans
ANN ARBOR – Americans are living longer than ever before, but cognitive decline threatens the quality of those last golden years. Now, new evidence suggests that where older adults live may help protect against dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. A trio of University of Michigan studies (linked below) shows that urban and suburban neighborhoods that provide… Continue reading Communities for cognitive aging: How neighborhoods may protect the cognitive health of older Americans
As dementia’s toll on the U.S. rises, new study shows major gaps in who gets care that could help them remain at home
ANN ARBOR – A new study provides stark statistics about a reality that 6 million Americans with dementia and their families live every day: one where people with dementia receive hundreds of hours a month in unpaid care from spouses, adult children and other relatives, and where some rely on paid help including nursing home… Continue reading As dementia’s toll on the U.S. rises, new study shows major gaps in who gets care that could help them remain at home