Interested in caregiving? MiCDA's Changing Demography of Family Caregiving network is happy to announce our upcoming webinar on June 5th, 2026 from 12-2pm EST. Register now to get the webinar link: myumi.ch/y1MNW

Mara Getz Sheftel will present MiCDA-UMISR's inaugural Schoeni TRENDS lecture on older adult health trends in the US Latino immigrant population. Please register by today to attend the webinar March 17, from 11 to 12:30 ET: https://micda.isr.umich.edu/programs/the-schoeni-trends-lecture/

Join us for the 2026 UMAging Initiative Symposium: "Stress, Resiliency, and Health in Later Life" this Thursday, March 26th! UMich's aging centers will host presentations and posters on a range of topics related to older adult health, with networking opportunities. Register here: myumi.ch/JP3kE

Don't miss the 1st Annual Schoeni TRENDS Lecture this Friday, March 27th, from 12-2pm EST! Registration ends today, so register now to get the webinar link: micda.isr.umich.edu/programs/the...

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @umichsph.bsky.social affiliate Lindsay Kobayashi in SSM - Population Health Family availability and memory function and decline among adults aged ≥51 in England and the United States, 2004-2019 myumi.ch/79DVQ

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @umichsph.bsky.social affiliate Michele Heisler in JAMA Opthamology, “Effect of the Support, Educate, Empower Personalized Glaucoma Coaching Program on Medication Adherence: The SEE Program Randomized Clinical Trial”: myumi.ch/D8jyQ

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @umichsph.bsky.social affiliate Amanda Leggett in American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease & Other Dementias, “Validating the Use of TBI-CareQOL Measures in Caregivers of People Living With Dementia”: myumi.ch/61VpJ

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @umichsph.bsky.social affiliates @emilybriceno.bsky.social, Kenneth Langa, and Lindsay Kobayashi in the Journals of Gerontology, "Recommended best practices for construct-centered adaptation of the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol": myumi.ch/R3j9z

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @umichsph.bsky.social affiliate Lindsay Kobayashi in Maturitas Age at natural menopause and cognitive aging in U.S. women: Educational attainment as a modifiable resilience factor myumi.ch/G2nPn

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @umichsph.bsky.social affiliate Kelly Marie Bakulski, "Linking sleep apnea and arthritis in the National Alzheimer Coordinating Center Cohort: A cross-sectional analysis" myumi.ch/bVMnN

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @umichsph.bsky.social affiliate Lindsay Kobayashi Do self-reported and objective hearing measures similarly relate to general and domain-specific cognition? Observational cohort study of older adults in England myumi.ch/Nr8GE

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @umichsph.bsky.social affiliate Kelly Marie Bakulski in Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease Experiences of participant burden in an Alzheimer's disease research center longitudinal cohort myumi.ch/n1bWm

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social WSUPsychology umichmedicine affiliate @dtmaust.bsky.social Amanda Leggett An Educational Intervention to Promote Central Nervous System-Active Deprescribing in Dementia: A Pilot Study myumi.ch/n1WxV

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @umichsph.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social affiliates Lindsay Kobayashi Kelly Marie Bakulski Margaret Hicken @erinware.bsky.social DNA methylation age acceleration mediates the relationship between systemic inflammation and cognitive impairment myumi.ch/Qw98E

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @umichsph.bsky.social affiliate Lindsay Kobayashi in J of Alzheimer's Disease How to assess cognitive decline when test administration changes across study waves? Harmonizing cognitive scores across waves in the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social umichmedicine @umichsph.bsky.social affiliates Lindsay Kobayashi Kenneth M. Langa HwaJung Choi Memory Trajectories Before and After a Negative Wealth Shock, the United States Health and Retirement Study, 1998-2020 myumi.ch/MkR24

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @umichsph.bsky.social umichmedicine @um-src.bsky.social affiliates Lindsay Kobayashi Kenneth M. Langa in American Journal of Epidemiology

Planning to apply for the MiCDA Research Fellows Program? The deadline is coming up next Monday, March 2nd! For more information on the Research Fellows Program and how to apply, visit micda.isr.umich.edu/programs/.

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social umichmedicine @um-src.bsky.social affiliates Kenneth M. Langa Jessica Faul David Weir Association of blood-based neurodegenerative biomarkers with cognitive functioning and dementia in India (LASI-DAD) and the United States (HRS) myumi.ch/bVGxx

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @umichsph.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social affiliate @erinware.bsky.social Kelly Marie Bakulski in Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease Understanding causal estimates of smoking behaviors for cognitive impairment: A Mendelian randomization study myumi.ch/e325Z

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social WSUPsychology affiliate Amanda Leggett in Social Science & Medicine Loss, inflammation, and cognition: Understanding the lifecourse impact of early life parental disruption myumi.ch/pVQ4J

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social affiliates Kate Duchowny Jessica Faul Grace Noppert in The Lancet Regional Health

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social umichmedicine affiliate @dtmaust.bsky.social in The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry Agitation in Alzheimer’s Disease as a Qualifying Condition for Medical Cannabis in the United States: A Brief Report on Current Trends myumi.ch/rANPJ

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social UMichPMR @um-src.bsky.social @um-psc.bsky.social affiliates @colterm.bsky.social Jessica Faul Mark D Peterson in Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social UMKelloggEye @um-src.bsky.social affiliate Joshua Ehrlich in Journal of Aging and Health Sensory Difficulty, Social and Physical Activity, and Dementia Risk Among Older Adults myumi.ch/w9454

MiCDA is excited to announce that our call for Research Fellow proposals is now open! Early career faculty are invited to submit proposals for pilot research related to the demography of aging. Visit myumi.ch/P34p4 for details. We look forward to your submissions by March 2.

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social WSUPsychology affiliate Amanda Leggett in Alzheimer's & Dementia Validating the CG-STYLE measure in family caregivers of individuals living with dementia myumi.ch/mRENm

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social umsi UMichNursing affiliates @sheriarobinsonlane.bsky.social Robin Brewer in Trials A community health worker-delivered intervention to support chronic pain self-management among older adults in an underserved urban community: protocol for a randomized trial

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social um_psychology affiliate @helenmeier.bsky.social @ketlynesol.bsky.social Laura Zahodne The impact of census-tract level mortgage discrimination on cognitive function accounting for measurement instability in small-area data via joint modeling

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social umichmedicine affiliate @dtmaust.bsky.social Reporting of Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics in US-Based Randomized Clinical Trials of Deprescribing Interventions for Older Adults myumi.ch/kPpQ5

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social umichmedicine affiliates David Weir Kenneth M. Langa Jessica Faul Dynamics of multimorbidity, health expectancy, and survival in middle aged and older individuals myumi.ch/61RDG

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social umichmedicine @um-src.bsky.social affiliate Kenneth M. Langa in Alzheimer's & Dementia Comparing retrospective informant assessments to prospectively collected cognitive measures in the Health and Retirement Study myumi.ch/W6q4b

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @umichsph.bsky.social affiliates Kelly Marie Bakulski Carrie Anne Karvonen-Gutierrez Blood essential trace elements and Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in midlife myumi.ch/JP2xN

The 1st annual Schoeni TRENDS Lecture is coming up on March 27th, 2026! This event will feature a talk by Mara Getz Sheftel on trends in the U.S. Latino immigrant population and what they mean for older adult health, with discussion by Neil Mehta. Register by March 23rd: myumi.ch/jJXXV

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social umichmedicine affiliatesLauren Gerlach @dtmaust.bsky.social in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society The National Dementia Workforce Study: Methods for Surveying Community Clinicians Who Provide Care to People With Dementia myumi.ch/15ez8

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @umichsph.bsky.social affiliate Kelly Marie Bakulski in The Lancet Healthy Longevity Moving from dementia risk disclosure to return of individual research results: a bioethics perspective myumi.ch/3R2Eg

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social um_psychology affiliate @ketlynesol.bsky.social Laura Beth Zahodne in Alzheimer's & Dementia Occupational position and complexity in relation to Black‐White cognitive disparities myumi.ch/61Ggn

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social @um-psc.bsky.social affiliates @colterm.bsky.social Jessica Faul in Social Science & Medicine Remarkable concordance in associations between epigenetic clocks and health behaviors across three countries myumi.ch/Nr8bV

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social UMKelloggEye @um-src.bsky.social affiliate Joshua Ehrlich in Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease Dual sensory loss and cognitive performance among older adults in India myumi.ch/dgP44

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.socia @um-src.bsky.social affiliate @spattersearch.bsky.social in American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease & Other Dementias Traditional and Non-traditional Caregivers Define “Family” and Caregiving Obligations myumi.ch/n1bGV

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social affiliate Jessica Faul in GeroScience Physiological health Age (PhysAge): a novel multi-system molecular timepiece predicts health and mortality in older adults myumi.ch/jJA5G

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social um_psychology umichmedicine @umichsph.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social affiliates Laura Beth Zahodne Kenneth M. Langa Lindsay Kobayashi Cumulative loneliness and memory function among U.S. older adults: the role of depressive symptoms myumi.ch/4mGN6

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social umichmedicine affiliate Kenneth M. Langa in Lancet Global Health Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of diabetes in India: a nationally representative survey of adults aged 45 years and older myumi.ch/mRz5w

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @umichsph.bsky.social affiliate Kelly Marie Bakulski in Journal of Proteome Research Serum N-Glycan Profiling Identifies Candidate Glycan Biomarkers for Early Detection and Prediction of Alzheimer's Disease myumi.ch/rANDd

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social affiliate Kira Birditt in The Journals of Gerontology When helping helps: benefits of daily advice provision on mood among older adults with life problems myumi.ch/g3D5G

We are excited to announce the 1st annual Schoeni TRENDS Lecture on March 27th, 2026! This event will feature a talk by Mara Getz Sheftel on trends in the U.S. Latino immigrant population and what they mean for older adult health, with discussion by Neil Mehta. Register by March 23rd: myumi.ch/jJXXV

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social umichmedicine affiliates Jessica Faul Kenneth M. Langa David Weir in The Journals of Gerontology Dynamics of multimorbidity, health expectancy, and survival in middle aged and older individuals myumi.ch/g37z3

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @umichsph.bsky.social affiliate Lindsay Kobayashi in American Journal of Epidemiology Independent and Joint Associations of Key Social Exposome Components with Cognitive Aging: Triangulating Evidence Through Cross-National Data myumi.ch/kP752

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social @um-src.bsky.social affiliate Kira Birditt in The Journals of Gerontology When helping helps: benefits of daily advice provision on mood among older adults with life problems myumi.ch/kPpjZ

New work from MiCDA @umisr.bsky.social UMKelloggEye @um-src.bsky.social affiliate Joshua Ehrlich in Epidemiology Midlife cognitive testing in Africa: validity of the Harmonised Cognitive Assessment Protocol in the Kenya Life Panel Survey myumi.ch/VVW4N