Global Aging & Community Initiative
About UsThe Linking Spirituality and Religiosity to Life and Health Expectancy team published an article using the World Values Survey to understand global connections between indicators of religiosity and health and how these links differ cross-nationally. Check out the article here: Religiosity and health: A global comparative study.
On Monday, November 12th, Dr. Zimmer presented at the “Aging Families in China: Social, Demographic, and Policy Considerations” conference hosted by the Aging Studies Institute at Syracuse University. He presented “A Dynamic Study of Disability and Life Expected in Living Arrangement States among Older Chinese Using Sixteen Years of Longitudinal Data.”
On October 24, Dr. Zimmer and Dr. Zajacova presented, "Pain in the United States and Abroad: A Demographic Perspective" at the Sociology Colloquium Series at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
In September, Dr. Zimmer's paper entitled, "Migration and left-behind parents and children of migrants in Cambodia: a look at household composition and the economic situation," was published in Asian Population Studies. The paper was co-authored by M. Van Natta, a doctoral candidate at UCSF.
The project team's paper on religion, life expectancy and disability-free life expectancy among older women and men in the Unites States was recently accepted for publication in The Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences. Follow the link to read the accepted manuscript: https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gby098.
On August 3, 2018, Dr. Zimmer presented a talk entitled, "A Global Comparative Study of Religiosity and Health" at Duke-NUS Medical School Singapore.
