Besides currently funded projects, the Global Aging and Community Initiative works with collaborators around the world on other research streams that lead to new knowledge on the well-being of older persons globally.  These include:

  • Health equity
  • Intergenerational relations and living arrangements
  • Migration
  • Health expectancies
  • Frailty and disablement

A complete list of publications by Dr. Zachary Zimmer can be found HERE

Highlighted publications:

Zachary Zimmer. Global shifts in the Demography of Aging. 2020. Pp. 21-40 in Bouchard, Danielle (ed.), Exercise and Physical Activity for Older Adults. Hong Kong: Human Kinetics.

Zachary Zimmer and Emily Treleaven. 2020. The rise and prominence of skip-generation households in lower- and middle-income countries. Population and Development Review. 46(4): 709-733. doi: 10.1111/padr.12349.

Zachary Zimmer, Heidi A. Hanson and Ken R. Smith. 2016. Offspring socioeconomic status and parent mortality within a historical population. Demography. 53(5): 1583-1603. doi:10.1007/s13524-016-0502-x. (PMCID: PMC5086077)