Research
MiCDA is accelerating research on aging in three signature areas:
- Enriching data infrastructure and methods to promote breakthroughs in the demography of aging
- The changing demography of late-life disability, dementia and family caregiving
- Social, biological, and environmental underpinnings over the life course that shape later-life health and wellbeing
People
MiCDA is an interdisciplinary community of scholars from across the University of Michigan with a shared interest in the demography of aging
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Amy M. Pienta
Research Professor, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, Institute for Social Research
Programs
Under its Research Fellows Program, MiCDA is spurring new research on the demography of aging by sponsoring pilot projects and early career development opportunities.
MiCDA also sponsors an annual symposium, research conferences, and a TRENDS lecture highlighting research on health-related demographic trends by an emerging scholar.
Networks
MiCDA is leading two national networks of scholars addressing pressing scientific and data-related questions on aging
- Longitudinal Studies of Aging in the U.S.
- The Demography of Family Caregiving
Enclave
MiCDA provides researchers with secure, remote access to restricted data. Analyze data in our Virtual Data Enclave (VDE) to advance research on the demography of aging.
Updates
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