NIA Demography Centers
Conducting new research and training in aging
Gateway to a full array of survey data on aging from around the world
Jinkook Lee of USC directs the Gateway to Global Aging, which provides a wealth of information on aging gleaned from the HRS and its sister surveys and from harmonized data sets.
Measuring biological risk for late-life health outcomes
Through the Biomarker Network, Eileen Crimmins and Teresa Seeman promote interdisciplinary research on biological markers that can be used to measure, monitor and predict health outcomes.
RAND Center for Disability Research
Led by director Kathleen Mullen, RAND's CDR examines the social and economic causes and consequences of disability in the US, including effects on employers, healthcare markets, and social insurance programs.
States with highest death rates among older Americans concentrated in the South
A new PRB video features an interactive map showing state inequalities in death rates of residents age 55-plus over the past three decades. In 2015, the highest such death rates were in Alabama, Kentucky, and Mississippi; the lowest were in Arizona, California, and Florida.
45-year Dunedin Study follows New Zealanders from birth into pre-retirement
Duke's Belsky, Caspi, Cohen, and Moffitt study links between childhood characteristics and the pace of biological aging among participants in the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study.
News
WaPo on recent work by NIA researchers showing increasing cognitive life expectancy.
Hayward and Basu on inaccuracy of common tool to estimate CVD risk and prescribe meds.
New poll finds older adults still tend to eschew online health care portals.
Calendar
About the Centers
The 11 NIA-funded Centers on the Demography and Economics of Aging foster research initiatives through funding pilot projects, developing and promoting new data resources, and supporting research networks, scholarly activities and events, and the recruitment of new researchers to the field of aging. MORE...
