This MiCDA pilot will seed new research to estimate the relative contribution of genetic and environmental factors to population-level mortality inequalities in the United States over several decades, for both early and later life mortality and geographically patterned mortality.
This MiCDA pilot will examine feasibility of using the Roadmap app to assess the implications of dementia caregivers’ positive activities on daily wellbeing of caregivers and persons living with dementia and will assess factors associated with successful use of the app.
Using data from the High School & Beyond study, this MiCDA pilot will explore how specific learning experiences contribute to the long-term health of individuals, with particular attention to the impacts of science-related curricular opportunities and degree pathways.
This MiCDA pilot study seeks to collect new data to enhance understanding of public attitudes toward care provided to older adults and whether the older adult having dementia changes these attitudes. The pilot complements a 2023 MiCDA Booster pilot to recruit understudied groups of caregivers to participate in focus groups aimed at developing new measures of caregiving motivation and attitudes toward care. This pilot work extends Patterson’s K99/R00 grant to study “Caregiving, Complex Family and Kinship Ties, and Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias.”
This project uses novel longitudinal measures to understand how individuals moving across different work arrangements over their lives is associated with changes in their mental health; cognition; cardiovascular risk factors including blood pressure, physical activity, and biomarkers of stress; and outcomes related to functional limitations including arthritis, mobility, and disability.