New research at GACI documents a troubling rising trend in pain prevalence across a number of European countries." Read the article HERE
Presentation for PAA
In April 2020, Zachary Zimmer and Chi-Tsun Chiu presented an asynchronous presentation for Population Association of America's Annual Conference on Living Arrangement Trends among China’s Oldest and Extreme Old. Click on the screen to download the presentation.
Persistent, Consistent, and Extensive: The Trend of Increasing Pain Prevalence in Older Americans
Zachary Zimmer and Anna Zajacova, The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Volume 75, Issue 2, February 2020, Pages 436–447, https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbx162
Protocol for the Vietnam Health and Aging Study is now published
“Design and measurement in a study of war exposure, health, and aging: protocol for the Vietnam health and aging study,” by Kim Korinek, Bussarawan Teerawichitchainan, Zachary Zimmer, Eleanor Brindle, Thi Kim Chuc Nguyen, Huu Minh Nguyen & Khanh Toan Tran was published on October 23, 2019 in the BMC Public Health, 19, Article number: 1351 … Continue reading Protocol for the Vietnam Health and Aging Study is now published
New paper using data from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
New paper published that examines the extent to which the Spanish language influences the way in which respondents report self-assessed health, "What’s in a word? Language and self-assessed health in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey," with Meredith Van Natta, University of California San Francisco.
New article published in the Journal of Aging and Health
The Linking Spirituality and Religiosity to Life and Health Expectancy team published a new article - Religiosity Dimensions and Disability-Free Life Expectancy in Taiwan. The article used eight years of panel data to investigate the association between three dimensions of religiosity and total and disability-free life expectancy. The team found that those who engage in … Continue reading New article published in the Journal of Aging and Health
