Ronald Lee and Andrew Mason (UC-Berkeley) collect and analyze data on formal and informal support systems for the elderly across the globe via the NTA.
Using vital records, decennial census, Social Security, and Medicare data, William Dow (UC-Berkeley) is constructing state-level estimates of all-cause mortality by age, sex and year, 1933-2007.
Teresa Seeman (UCLA), Chloe Bird (RAND), and colleagues examine WHI data to identify factors contributing to optimal aging among women 80 years and older.
Karen Cruickshanks (Wisconsin) studies the epidemiology of sensory and cognitive changes in Baby Boomers to further the development of interventions to prevent or delay older-age impairments.
Luis Rosero-Bixby and William Dow report a significantly higher age-adjusted mortality rate among the poorest quartile of Americans than their Costa Rican counterparts. They attribute this to more unequal life expectancy outcomes across the economic spectrum in the...
