Sarah Patterson

create a massive cultural problem, then externalize the responsibility and cost onto friends and relatives

Heads up -- the NHATS webinar was moved one week. See below:

The 4th annual NIMLAS plenary meeting is today! Looking forward to updates from our pilot project awardees and a keynote workshop from @jonburton.bsky.social on state-of-the art methods for obtaining consent to additional collection in longitudinal studies of aging. Details: nimlas.isr.umich.edu

SRC Seminar Series Presents: Caregiving for Older Adults: Expectations and Choice | Happening @ Michigan Presented By: Survey Research Center Ask a Question About This Event

Join us, Tuesday, March 3 at 1:00 for @spattersearch.bsky.social: Caregiving for Older Adults: Expectations and Choice
More information & zoom link: events.umich.edu/event/145276
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Learn to code is dead, long live learn to think

Honored to be presenting the 1st Annual Schoeni TRENDS talk. Register below to join us remotely!

This talk will be virtual so please share with your networks!

We're looking forward to the 1st annual Schoeni TRENDS lecture featuring @marasheftel.bsky.social and Neil Mehta. Register here: micda.isr.umich.edu/programs/the...

Friends working with Round 13 NHATS data! Be sure to redownload the file to get the most up to date weights

Do you or a family member live in Idaho and rely on an HCBS waiver? Want to talk to a reporter about it? Please email sluterman at 19thnews dot org or DM. #JournoRequest

Family care expectations clash with shrinking availability, dementia needs Americans largely expect families to care for older adults—especially those with dementia—even as fewer family caregivers are available, U-M study shows

Americans largely expect families to care for older adults, especially those with #dementia, even as fewer family caregivers are available, according to work by our member @spattersearch.bsky.social of @umisr.bsky.social. Read more about these #caregiving expectations: ihpi.umich.edu/news-events/...

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<em>Journal of Marriage and Family</em> | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library Objective This paper examines the long-term impact of parental loss in early years on family formation as adults in U.S. cohorts born between 1850 and 1910, focusing on age assortative mating and th.....

☀️Happy to be back with a new article in @jmfncfr.bsky.social! W/ Saverio Minardi we explore how parental loss during childhood was linked to family formation in adulthood. This was my last contribution to the ERC funded project GENPOP.
Check it out Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/jomf...

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In “A Profile of Great-Grandparenthood in the U.S.,” R. Margolis & A. Verdery find that rates of great-grandparenthood for older cohorts are stable bc of ↑ life expectancy & postponed fertility, but rates for younger cohorts are lower. @westernu.ca @pop.psu.edu read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...

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#Aging scholars and others interested in all things aging #research:

Be sure to follow Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging @micda-umisr.bsky.social for new studies from our affiliates.

Also follow @nhats-nsoc.bsky.social for new studies using #NHATS and #NSOC data.

Family care expectations clash with shrinking availability, dementia needs ANN ARBOR—Americans believe that the family as a whole—especially a spouse or partner—is responsible for caring for an older adult.  Biological and stepchildren have the next highest levels of obligat...

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Family care expectations clash with shrinking availability, dementia needs ANN ARBOR—Americans believe that the family as a whole—especially a spouse or partner—is responsible for caring for an older adult.  Biological and stepchildren have the next highest levels of obligat...

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#Aging scholars and others interested in all things aging #research:

Be sure to follow Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging @micda-umisr.bsky.social for new studies from our affiliates.

Also follow @nhats-nsoc.bsky.social for new studies using #NHATS and #NSOC data.

The program provides mentorship to early career scholars interested in behavioral & social aspects of aging related to MiCDA’s themes. Fellows receive funding for a pilot project, are mentored by a MiCDA affiliate, & attend workshops in manuscript development, grant preparation & science comms.

The image has a banner at the top with the NHATS and NSOC logos surrounded by one green and one purple image of older adults. There is a centered title that reads "New Research Using NHATS/NSOC." Below this is a centered article title from a scientific journal that reads "The Role of Home Hazards in the Association Between Visual Function and Falls in Older Adults." The authors are Shu Xu, PhD, Philippa Clarke, PhD and Michelle J. Sun, MD, MPH.

New research using #NHATS / #NSOC by Xu, Clare, and Sun:
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“Nearly half of #older adults with severe #vision loss or blindness #fell in the prior year compared with 28% of those without such impairments.”

Ready to work with #NHATS data? Here's how you can get started!

Journal of Family Theory & Review | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library As the population ages and families become increasingly diverse, more work is needed to understand expectations for families to care for older adults. In this review, we discuss the theoretical frame....

Expectations for Families to Care for Older Adults in the United States: Rapid Scoping Review 2011–2023

Open Access:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This scoping review was a labor of love and I get into the main results over at LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/posts/sarah-...