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Official account for the Center for Demography of Health and Aging at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
Joined February 2017
📰CDHA affiliates Lauren Schmitz & Silvia Helena Barcellos featured in @WPR "Wisconsin is at the center of emerging scientific field with answers to ‘nature vs. nurture’" .
wpr.org
Do people have a genetic destiny, or are they more shaped by their environment and lived experiences? Wisconsin is front and center in ending the classic “nature vs. nurture” debate.
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🚗New #publication from @UW_CDE & CDHA affiliate Stephanie Robert in Journal of Transport & Health.➡️”Walking, public transit, and transitions to non-driving among US Medicare enrollees”.
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📚CDHA affiliate Barry Burden quoted in @WIExaminer “UW professors discuss attacks on higher education, ‘fragility’ of U.S. democracy”.➡️Read more here:
wisconsinexaminer.com
"How do you get dozens, if not hundreds of institutions, to start acting collectively to push back against this?" asked Mark Copelevitch.
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📚New #publication in @ReadDemography from @UW_CDE and CDHA affiliate Héctor Pifarré Arolas.➡️”An Overlapping Cohorts Perspective of Lifespan Inequality”.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A growing literature investigates the levels, trends, causes, and effects of lifespan inequality. This work is typically based on measures that combine partial cohort histories into a synthetic...
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📱CDHA affiliate Beth Fields quoted in @UWMadisonNews as she leads her ongoing project “App under development at UW could make it easier, more affordable to ‘age in place’”.➡️Read more here:
news.wisc.edu
Using augmented reality, UW–Madison researchers are developing an app to improve the safety and quality of life for older adults who want to age in place.
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🧑⚕️New #publication in the National Library of Medicine from CDHA affiliate @DrLaurenBishop & colleagues.➡️”Using National Survey Data to Estimate Healthcare Communication Disparities for Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities”.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
There are healthcare communication and satisfaction disparities between adults with and without IDD or other disabilities. Future research should characterise the size and exact nature of these...
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👰CDHA and @UW_CDE affiliate Christine Schwartz’s research featured in @TheAtlantic “The New Marriage of Unequals: Women are now more likely to marry a less-educated man than men are to marry a less-educated woman”.➡️Read more here:
theatlantic.com
Women are now more likely to marry a less-educated man than men are to marry a less-educated woman.
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📈New #publication from CDHA affiliate Adam Rule & colleagues in the JIMIR highlights the potential of electronic health record metadata to improve healthcare delivery through tracking team dynamics, workflows, & cognitive load.➡️
jmir.org
This article aims to introduce emerging measurement domains made feasible through the electronic health record (EHR) use metadata, to inform the changing landscape of health care delivery. We...
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🍽️New #publication in the Alzheimer’s & Dementia journal from CDHA affiliates @andrealgilmore, Manish Shah, Amy Kind & colleagues.➡️”Eating and swallowing care disparities in persons with dementia: A conceptual framework”.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
There are eating/swallowing care disparities among persons living with dementia. We introduce a conceptual framework applying social and structural determinants of health to eating/swallowing care....
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💵CDHA affiliate Sterling Johnson quoted in the Wisconsin State Journal “Alzheimer’s research at UW-Madison could bear brunt of Trump’s medical research cuts”.➡️Read more here:
madison.com
Of UW-Madison's top 10 research grants from the National Institutes of Health, for which Trump announced a big cut, five involve dementia, including the top three.
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🧠New #publication from CDHA affiliates Sanjay Asthana, Sterling Johnson & colleagues in the Alzhiemer's & Dementia Journal.➡️”Amyloid is associated with accelerated atrophy in cognitively impaired individuals”.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This study examined the association of longitudinal atrophy with baseline cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) amyloid beta (Aβ, A) and phosphorylated tau (p‐tau, T) biomarkers (Aβ42/40, p‐tau181) in 406...
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RT @UW_CDE: 👏Thank you to CDE Visiting Scholar Dr. Abouk (@AboukRahi) for joining us today to present at #UWDemSem @uwcdha .➡️Join us next….
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💟 The Cap Times cites CDHA affiliate @amyjhkind in “Why has Wisconsin public health declined despite millions in funding?”.Kind notes efforts to create a healthier Wisconsin, “We ensure that we do the most we possibly can with what we have.”.➡️Read:
captimes.com
UW-Madison’s medical school and the Medical College of Wisconsin received $600 million from Blue Cross years ago, but the state's public health ranking has slipped.
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Get ready for @silastopping & Sara Peters’s session at #PAA2025 @PopAssocAmerica on Sunday, April 13th, “Decomposing the Rural Mortality Penalty”
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🗣️New #publication in the J Autism Dev Disorders from CDHA affiliate Marsha Mailick & colleagues.➡️”The Vocational & Educational Index: An Update to the Vocational Index to Reflect Contemporary Postsecondary Educational Options for Autistic Adults”
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Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders - The Vocational Index, a tool to reliably capture the range of vocational and educational activities in which adults with autism engage, is regularly...
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RT @UW_CDE: 🩺Next week we are excited to have CDE Visiting Scholar Rahi Abouk (@AboukRahi) presenting “The Roots of Health Disparities: Acc….
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