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Official account for the Center for Demography of Health and Aging at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Clinical and Prognostic Utility of the Essential Frailty Toolset in Older Patients With Heart Failure A total of 1237 patients hospitalized with HF are included in the study. The EFT is evaluated using the 5TCST, Mini-Cog test, and serum hemoglobin and albumin levels, with scores ranging from 0 to 5 ...

💟New #publication in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society from CDHA affiliate Naoki Aizawa “Clinical and Prognostic Utility of the Essential Frailty Toolset in Older Patients With Heart Failure”

➡️Read more here: doi.org/10.1111/jgs....

03.12.2025 16:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Longevity gains slowing with life expectancy of 100 unlikely, study finds A new study co-authored by a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor finds that life expectancy gains made by high-income countries in the first half of the 20th century have slowed significantly, a...

🧓 @cdeuw.bsky.social & CDHA affiliate Héctor Piffaré’s research cited in Phys Org “Longevity gains slowing with life expectancy of 100 unlikely, study finds”

➡️Read more here: phys.org/news/2025-08...

01.12.2025 18:52 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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📚New #publication in SSM-Population Health from CDHA affiliates Amy Schultz & Michal Engelman

➡️"Cumulative neighborhood disadvantage and racial and geographic disparities in epigenetic aging."

doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

26.11.2025 17:48 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What to know about measles risks and vaccination recommendations in Wisconsin This story was produced and originally published by Wisconsin Watch in collaboration with Door County Knock. Before the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of Americans faced measles infections each year. Th...

💉Become informed by @cdeuw.bsky.social & CDHA affiliate Malia Jones and colleague Dr. Jim Conway in @pbswisconsin.bsky.social “What to know about measles risks and vaccination recommendations in Wisconsin”

➡️Read: pbswisconsin.org/news-item/wh...

24.11.2025 20:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🕑New #publication in @alzdemjournals.bsky.social from CDHA affiliates Victoria Williams, Sterling Johnson, @michalengelman.bsky.social, Pamela Herd & Sanjay Asthana “Dementia prevalence in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study”

➡️ pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

24.11.2025 20:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Hometown Today - 10.30.25 -Columbus High School: Watertown Players "Dear Camp", BD Offspring Study YouTube video by Daily Dodge TV

🔆Check out Dr. Natascha Merten feature on WBEV’s Hometown Today as she leads the Beaver Dam Offspring Study–Neurocognitive Aging Study!

➡️Learn more about the history, findings, and future of the study below, starting at 31:50:

www.youtube.com/live/n5ZSydy...

20.11.2025 16:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Huge congratulations to Dr. Natascha Merten, who received an award at #GSA2025! 🏆

She presented “Accelerated Phenotypical Aging in Midlife and Long-Term Cognitive Decline,” highlighting her impactful research on sensory & cognitive aging.

Way to represent the CDHA community!

19.11.2025 17:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Daily Stress and Cortisol Patterns in Midlife and Older Parents of Children With Developmental Disabilities AbstractObjectives. The current study aims to investigate the association between daily stressful experiences and daily diurnal cortisol in midlife and old

👪New #publication in The Journals of Gerontology from CDHA affiliates Jooyoung Kong & Marsha Mailick

➡️"Daily Stress and Cortisol Patterns in Midlife and Older Parents of Children With Developmental Disabilities."
doi.org/10.1093/gero...

19.11.2025 16:48 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dementia prevalence in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study INTRODUCTION While there is growing appreciation of the importance of sociobiological determinants of dementia, few lifespan cohorts offer well-characterized dementia outcomes to explore these aims......

"While there is growing appreciation of the importance of sociobiological determinants of dementia, few lifespan cohorts offer well‐characterized dementia outcomes to explore these aims." @cdhauw.bsky.social @cdeuw.bsky.social

17.11.2025 22:15 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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🚨CDE/CDHA Grant Management Series🚨

See below if interested!

17.11.2025 18:56 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Steven Deller on tariffs, job numbers and economic trends Steven Deller on what new tariffs, jobs and spending figures mean for the economy.

👀Watch CDHA affiliate Steven Deller on @pbswisconsin.bsky.social “Steven Deller on tariffs, job numbers and economic trends”➡️Learn more here: pbswisconsin.org/news-item/st...

17.11.2025 18:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🌟CDHA at GSA 2025🌟

Stephanie Robert, Michal Engelman, Jooyoung Kong & Victoria Williams concluded our time at GSA in Boston, MA, with phenomenal presentations today!

A huge thank-you to everyone who shared new findings and connected with our researchers!

15.11.2025 22:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🌟CDHA at GSA 2025🌟

Weidi Qin & Sarah Salas both have two presentations today at the Gerontological Society of America’s Annual Scientific Meeting in Boston, MA.

There is just one more day remaining of this phenomenal event, and we are beyond proud of all attending!

14.11.2025 18:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🌟CDHA at GSA 2025🌟

Several of our affiliates, including Yue Qin, Meiyi Li, & Gina Lee, are presenting today at the Gerontological Society of America’s Annual Scientific Meeting in Boston, MA.

Presentations run until the 15th, and we are proud to celebrate them each day!

13.11.2025 15:37 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Wellbeing skills strengthening as a model for healthy adolescent digital technology use Digital technologies (DTs) have become ubiquitous. Adolescents are avid users of DTs. As access to and use of DTs has increased among adolescents, daily life and adolescent social interaction patterns have shifted in profound ways. Although the ...

🧑‍💻New #publication in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences from @cdhauw.bsky.social affiliate Richard Davidson “Wellbeing skills strengthening as a model for healthy adolescent digital technology use”

➡️ pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

12.11.2025 18:52 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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How Are Spousal Carers' Health and Self‐Perceptions of Ageing Reshaped in Caregiving Situations? The Mediating Role of Psychological Resources Background Caregiving has a multitude of impacts across well-being domains. Understanding these diverse effects is crucial for tailoring effective interventions and policies that reflect the complex...

💑New #publication in Psychogeriatrics from CDHA affiliate Kristin Litzelman

➡️“How Are Spousal Carers’ Health and Self-Perceptions of Ageing Reshaped in Caregiving Situations? The Mediating Role of Psychological Resources”
doi.org/10.1111/psyg...

12.11.2025 18:54 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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🌟CDHA at GSA 2025!🌟

We’re proud to have several of our affiliates, including Julie Ober Allen, Natascha Merten, and @michaeltopping.bsky.social, present today at the Gerontological Society of America’s Annual Scientific Meeting in Boston, MA.

Stay tuned to see more of our very own present!

12.11.2025 17:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The risk of private equity in your 401(k) : The Indicator from Planet Money Private equity is a risky business. There are high-highs and low-lows. A retirement plan, on the other hand, is meant to be a reliable beast. But President Trump believes your 401(k) can handle it! On...

⭐Listen to @cdeuw.bsky.social & CDHA affiliate Anita Mukherjee in @npr.org “The risk of private equity in your 401(k)”

“It's intended to be sort of a steady way to save a reasonable amount for retirement”

➡️Learn more: www.npr.org/transcripts/...

10.11.2025 16:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🚨DEMSEM🚨

Please join us to learn from Sigal Alon this upcoming Tuesday, November 11th!

06.11.2025 20:32 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

📃New #publication in @pnas.org from @cdeuw.bsky.social & CDHA affiliate Héctor Pifarré

➡️“Cohort mortality forecasts indicate signs of deceleration in life expectancy gains”
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

05.11.2025 17:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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DemSem This Thursday 🔔

Join us as we welcome Dr. Diana Hernandez (Columbia University) for her talk:
“Energy Insecurity: The People’s Struggle for Power at Home”

🗓 Thursday, November 6
🕓 4:15–5:15 PM
📍 1163 Mechanical Engineering Building

We hope to see you there!

04.11.2025 18:09 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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In Good Company: Dr. Vivek Murthy on the global loneliness crisis He has recently joined with the World Health Organization in calling for an urgent global response to loneliness.

🌎Tune in to the 1A to hear CDHA affiliate Alvin Thomas discuss the loneliness epidemic “In Good Company: Dr. Vivek Murthy on the global loneliness crisis”

➡️Listen here: the1a.org/segments/in-...

03.11.2025 19:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
CDHA Receives 6-Year NIH Center Grant Renewal The Center for Demography of Health and Aging (CDHA) is delighted to announce that its NIH center infrastructure grant has been renewed for a 6-year term.  CDHA is in its 26th year of supporting high-...

🎉 Exciting news!

CDHA’s NIH center grant has been renewed for another 6 years, a recognition of the center’s outstanding research community and its impact on the study of health and aging.

➡️Learn more about CDHA’s work and upcoming initiatives here: cdha.wisc.edu/2025/10/22/c...

29.10.2025 15:41 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Helping teens navigate online racism − study shows which parenting strategy works best Parents can help their Black and Hispanic teens handle online racism by talking it through, but monitoring internet use can backfire.

📶Read @cdhauw.bsky.social affiliate Alvin Thomas’s article in @theconversation.com “Helping teens navigate online racism - study shows which parenting strategy works best”

➡️Learn more here: theconversation.com/helping-teen...

27.10.2025 13:21 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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🚨Be sure to submit your application for the NIH/NIA T32 Postdoctoral Scholar position!

📌Advanced training in the demography of aging & the life course will be offered, allowing independent research to thrive, collab with mentors, & engagement with leading longitudinal studies.

27.10.2025 13:20 — 👍 0    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Jooyoung Kong Honored with Distinguished Recent Alumni Award CDHA affiliate Jooyoung Kong, Associate Professor in the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has been selected to receive the Distinguished Recent Alumni Awa...

👏We’re thrilled to celebrate CDHA affiliate Jooyoung Kong, who’s been honored with BCSSW’s Distinguished Recent Alumni Award!

💡Her work explores how early experiences shape lifelong caregiving and well-being.
Learn more ➡️ cdha.wisc.edu/2025/10/22/j...

27.10.2025 13:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🎉 Congratulations to CDHA postdoc Gina Lee, recipient of the Institute on Aging’s Young Investigator Award!

Her research explores how sibling relationships in midlife shape cognitive health later in life, highlighting the lasting power of social connection.

👏 Well done, Gina!

22.10.2025 16:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Is Tenure a Golden Age for Research? A large study finds that there’s a trade-off. While tenured researchers may publish less, they often come up with more novel ideas.

📚CDHA affiliate Chaoqun Ni's research cited in Kellogg Insight “Is Tenure a Golden Age for Research?”

➡️Discover more here: insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/is-t...

20.10.2025 14:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🇺🇸New #publication in Social Science & Medicine from CDHA affiliates John Robert Warren & Eric Grodsky

➡️"Intergenerational Occupational Mobility and Health in the United States."
doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

15.10.2025 15:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New Wisconsin partnership aims to expand memory care for Latino community A new elective course between the UW School of Medicine and Public Health and the state’s only bilingual memory clinic will help give upcoming medical students hands-on experience with memory care in ...

🧑‍⚕️Listen to CDHA affiliate Maria Mora Pinzon on WPR “How farm subsidies could be affected by federal spending bill, Archaeologists uncover indigenous farm site, Dementia care for Latinos”

➡️Learn more here: www.wpr.org/news/new-wis...

13.10.2025 18:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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