How do survey formats impact data quality when measuring complex personal identities? 📝 A new paper by CDHA-affiliate Jennifer Dykema tests "select-one" vs. "select-all" formats to see how they change user responses. 📊 🔗 Read more: aging.wisc.edu/annual-collo...

Big news for interdisciplinary research at UW–Madison! Dr. Michal Engelman is the new lead at RISE-THRIVE Collaboration HQ. The hub connects top researchers of 🔬immunology and healthspan🩺. Learn more: research.wisc.edu/press-releas...

📢 POSTER SESSION! Featuring: Erika Teramoto, Julie Ober Allen, Johanna Nunez How do identity, discrimination, and social structures "get under the skin" to impact our lives? 🧬🌍 Join an incredible lineup of research from #UWMadisonPAA2026 Session P07: Friday, May 8, 3:00 PM

#PAA2026 Happening this afternoon! #UWMadisonPAA2026

#PAA2026 Happening soon! #UWMadisonPAA2026

📢 POSTER SESSION! Featuring: Erika Teramoto, Julie Ober Allen, Johanna Nunez How do identity, discrimination, and social structures "get under the skin" to impact our lives? 🧬🌍 Join an incredible lineup of research from #UWMadisonPAA2026 Session P07: Friday, May 8, 3:00 PM

Happening NOW! #UWMadisonPAA2026 📢 📢 📢 POSTER SESSION!! Come stop by and learn all about Aging and the Life Course/Children, Youth and Intergenerational Ties! 🕒 Friday, May 8, 2026 | 10:30am #PAA2026

🐦An early morning Flash Presentation by Sara Ronnkvist #UWMadisonPAA2026!🐛 Visit session 126 on Temporal Dimensions of Climate Impacts to see Sara’s presentation: “Quantifying Post-Disaster Migration Trajectories in the United States.” 🕒 Friday, May 8, 2026, from 8:00 - 9:15 AM #PAA2026

📢 Don’t miss UWMadisonPAA2026 researchers! 👩‍🔬 Researchers Ballard, Conway, Bailey, Westergaard, & Gicquelais on the association between treatment and overdose. 📊Researchers Hu, Zheng, & Ouayogodé on how ACOs are impacting breast cancer outcomes. 🕒 Thursday, May 7, 3:15PM

#PAA2026 Happening soon! #UWMadisonPAA2026

#PAA2026 Happening soon! Join us #UWMadisonPAA2026

📢 Happening Tomorrow! Don’t miss "Intergenerational Family Inequalities," featuring new research on parental health and the evolution of the "Sandwich Generation." 🎙️ Presenters: Meghann Norden-Bright and Marcy Carlson 🕗 When: Thursday, May 7, 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM #UWMadisonPAA2026

🚀 #PAA2026 starts TODAY! Thousands of demographers, sociologists, and economists are descending on St. Louis to share groundbreaking research on pressing population issues. 📉 Stay tuned as we highlight #UWMadisonPAA2026 researchers throughout the week. See you in the sessions! 👐

🔎New #publication from CDHA affiliates Richard Davidson, Carol Ryff, & Stacey Schaefer in Biopsychosocial Science and Medicine "Major Lifetime Discrimination Exposure Accelerates Brain Microstructural Aging: Diffusion MRI Evidence from MIDUS" ➡️ journals.lww.com/bsam/abstrac...

💡Learn about new research addressing U.S. state gaps in longevity gains from CDHA affiliates Héctor Pifarré i Arolas and Jason Fletcher in the press release linked here: lafollette.wisc.edu/news/new-stu...

New study challenges bleak picture of U.S. state gaps in longevity gains

A new study co-authored by two University of Wisconsin–Madison professors suggests longevity gains across all states and regions for people born between 1941 and 2000, in contrast to previous estimate...

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🔎New #publication from CDHA and @cdeuw.bsky.social affiliate Weidi Qin in Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health “Neighborhood Disadvantage, Functional Difficulty, and Cognitive Decline among Older Mexican Americans” ➡️ doi.org/10.1007/s406...

Neighborhood Disadvantage, Functional Difficulty, and Cognitive Decline among Older Mexican Americans - Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

Background Cognitive decline is a disproportionately prevalent condition among older Mexican Americans, highlighting the need to understand the biopsychosocial factors contributing to cognitive health in this population. The study aims to investigate the longitudinal association between functional difficulty and cognitive decline and to determine the moderating effect of neighborhood disadvantage among older Mexican Americans. Methods We used four waves of data from the Hispanic Established Population for the Epidemiologic Study of the Elderly (2004–2005 to 2012–2013) linked to the 2010 National Neighborhood Data Archive. We selected older Mexican Americans who scored ≥ 21 on the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) at baseline (n = 1,189). Cognitive function was measured by the MMSE. Neighborhood disadvantage was assessed based on five census-tract indicators. Functional difficulty was indicated by limitations in activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental ADL (IADL). Multilevel mixed-effects regression models were performed to estimate cognitive change over time. Results There was an average decline of 0.70 in the MMSE score as a function of ADL (p < 0.001), but no significant changes were observed for IADL. Significant interactions were observed between study wave and ADL/IADL (both p < 0.001) in predicting MMSE score. Participants with ADL/IADL difficulty experienced faster cognitive decline. Neighborhood disadvantage was associated with cognitive declines among participants with IADL difficulty, but not among those without. Conclusion Neighborhood disadvantage may represent a socioeconomic stressor that can negatively impact cognitive health among older Mexican Americans with functional difficulty. Culturally responsive neighborhood-level efforts may contribute to reducing the risk of cognitive decline among older Mexican Americans.

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📈New #publication from CDHA affiliates Victoria Williams, Sanjay Asthana & Michal Engelman in Alzheimer’s & Dementia “Early‐life influences on the risk for later‐life Alzheimer's and non‐Alzheimer's dementia: A nearly full life course prospective cohort study” ➡️ pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Early‐life influences on the risk for later‐life Alzheimer's and non‐Alzheimer's dementia: A nearly full life course prospective cohort study

Dementia prevention research has largely used educational attainment as a proxy for early‐life. Given the known influence of early‐life exposures on brain development, more attention to early‐life exp...

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📃New #publication from CDHA affiliate Tracy Schroepfer in Innovation in Aging “Enhancing Care Transitions with an Explicit Live Discharge Protocol (LDP) from Hospice" ➡️ pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Enhancing Care Transitions with an Explicit Live Discharge Protocol (LDP) from Hospice

Implementing a live discharge protocol (LDP) from hospice care is a critical component of ensuring safe and compassionate transitions for hospice patients (and their caregivers) who no longer meet eligibility criteria. A live discharge protocol ...

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🏡New #publication in Innovation in Aging from CDHA affiliate Beth Fields “Revolutionizing Home Safety and Independence for Older Adults With the Augmented Reality Home Assessment Tool” ➡️ pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

⭐New #publication from CDHA affiliate Andrea Gilmore-Bykovski in Innovation in Aging “Involuntary Hospitalization of People Living with Dementia: A Comparative Policy Analysis” ➡️ pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

🧠New #publication in Innovation in Aging from CDHA affiliates Sterling Johnson & Natascha Merten “Accelerated Phenotypic Aging in Midlife is Associated with Long-term Risk of Neurodegeneration” ➡️ pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

💬Please join us tomorrow to listen to Diana Hernandez's presentation: "Energy Insecurity: The People's Struggle for Power at Home."

⛪New #publication in Journals of Gerontology from CDHA and @cdeuw.bsky.social affiliate Weidi Qin “Organizational and Non-Organizational Religious Participation and Trajectories of Cognitive Function among Older African Americans” ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/gero...

Organizational and Non-Organizational Religious Participation and Trajectories of Cognitive Function among Older African Americans

AbstractObjectives. The aims of this study were to determine 1) whether organizational and non-organizational religious participation are associated with c

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🌷New #publication from CDHA affiliates Victoria Williams, Michal Engelman, Pamela Herd & Sanjay Asthana in Innovation in Aging “Life Course Modifiable Risk Factors for Dementia Stratified by ApoE-4 Status” ➡️ pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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👂New #publication in Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease from CDHA affiliate Natascha Merten “Hearing Impairment and Cognitive Decline: Alternative Explanations to Causality” ➡️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41555828/

Hearing impairment and cognitive decline: Alternative explanations to causality - PubMed

Despite growing interest in hearing impairment as a potentially modifiable risk factor for dementia, the association is poorly understood. This has implications for whether treating hearing impairment can prevent or delay onset of dementia, as causation is not the only explanation for the associatio …

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Is your neighborhood aging you? Research by CDHA postdocs Christina Kamis & Yiyue Xu with CDHA affiliates Kristen Malecki & Amy Schultz links neighborhood stress to accelerated biological aging, w/ mental distress tied to measurable DNA damage. Read more here: news.illinois.edu/your-neighbo...

🏥New #publication from CDHA affiliates Maria Mora Pinzon, Manish N Shah, Andrea Gilmore-Bykovskyi in J Am Geriatr Soc “What Matters Most to People Living With Dementia and Their Care Partners During Emergency Department Visits” ➡️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41359361/

What Matters Most to People Living With Dementia and Their Care Partners During Emergency Department Visits - PubMed

Findings suggest that interpersonal interactions, including being informed about care and involved in decisions, strongly influence the evaluation of ED visits for PLWD. These findings can support the development of person-centered outcome measures capable of evaluating these priorities.

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