Welcome Message
From Julie Zissimopoulos, Co-Director
I look forward to serving as co-Chair for the upcoming 2023 National Research Summit on Care, Services and Support for Persons Living with Dementia and Their Care Partners/Caregivers. I hope you will attend and share your ideas. The summit is an excellent opportunity to learn about the state of the science and engage with various perspectives about critical gaps and opportunities for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias research. For more information, please visit our website or contact me at Julie.Zissimopoulos@usc.edu
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CeASES ADRD Supported Research
"Climate and workplace environments may explain inequities in Alzheimer's disease and related disorders (ADRD). To spur research on this, we are linking Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) data with historical climate and environmental measures. These include a half-dozen different sources on local climate, soil erosion, natural disasters, and greenhouse gas emissions over several decades. This work also includes documenting Mexican attitudes and policies toward environmental issues over time. Combining these variables with MHAS data on lifetime occupation and other characteristics will yield new insights on how environmental and workplace exposures affect ADRD in low-middle-income countries."
Emma Aguila, PhD
CeASES ADRD Supplement Recipient
Associate Professor, USC Price School of Public Policy
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Center News
Center of the Demography and the Economics of Aging - Coordinating Center Travel Award
The Centers on the Demography and Economics of Aging Coordinating Center at the University of Michigan is pleased to announce the availability of travel funds for trainees and junior faculty to participate in professional development activities. Applicants may request up to $2,000 for travel to attend conferences, workshops, and meetings that are thematically relevant to the mission of the NIA. Applications are open through May 15th, 2023. More information can be found here.
Postdoctoral Opening: The Alzheimer's Trial Recruitment Innovation Lab (ATRIL) Fellowship Program
ATRIL is now accepting Fall 2023 applications for a postdoctoral fellow. This two-year program is designed to train and develop the next generation of researchers interested in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) clinical trials through a multidisciplinary, active and team-based learning approach. ATRIL is a collaboration between USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, the USC Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute, and the Economics Department at Howard University. This position offers opportunities to connect with the CeASES ADRD network and other research groups at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics. Learn more about the position here.
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Upcoming Events
2023 National Research Summit on Care, Services, and Supports for Persons Living with Dementia and Their Care Partners/Caregivers
The virtual summit will be held March 20-22, 2023. CeASES ADRD Co-Director, Julie Zissimopoulos, serves as Co-Chair of the summit's Steering Committee, along with Andrea Gilmore-Bykovsky. The summit will feature presentations from CeASES ADRD affiliates Mireille Jacobson, Norma Coe, and Emmanuel Drabo on topics including health care utilization, the role of insurance policies, and impact of dementia diagnoses on persons with dementia and care partners. Two experts from our Science of ADRD for Social Scientists Workshop, Duke Han and David Reuben, will also present on financial decision making and dementia care, respectively. Full agenda and registration can be found here.
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Past Events
The Coordinating Center for the Centers on the Demography and Economics of Aging hosted a webinar featuring speakers from the HEADS Center and CeASES ADRD. USC Schaeffer Center fellow and CeASES ADRD affiliate, Mireille Jacobson, PhD, shared her research on health care utilization before and after a dementia diagnosis in Medicare Advantage (MA) vs Traditional Medicare (TM). Dr. Jacobson reported care utilization in the months leading up to and after ADRD diagnosis was systematically higher among persons in TM than those in MA.
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Recent Publications
Choi, E. Y., Farina, M. P., Zhao, E., & Ailshire, J. (2023). Changes in social lives and loneliness during COVID-19 among older adults: a closer look at the sociodemographic differences. International Psychogeriatrics, 1-13.
Farina, M. P., Kim, J. K., Hayward, M. D., & Crimmins, E. M. (2022). Links between inflammation and immune functioning with cognitive status among older Americans in the Health and Retirement Study. Brain, behavior, & immunity-health, 26, 100559..
Lee, J., Meijer, E., Langa, K. M., Crimmins, E., Varghese, M., Banerjee, J., ... & Dey, A. B. (2023). Prevalence of dementia in India: National and state estimates from a nationwide study. Alzheimer's & Dementia.
Soh, Y., Whitmer, R. A., Mayeda, E. R., Glymour, M. M., Manly, J., Eng, C. W., ... & Gilsanz, P. (2023). State-Level Indicators of Childhood Educational Quality and Incident Dementia in Older Black and White Adults. JAMA neurology.
Thunell, J. A., Ferido, P., & Zissimopoulos, J. M. (2023). COVID‐19 hospitalization and mortality in community‐dwelling racially and ethnically diverse persons living with dementia. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
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Julie Zissimopoulos, PhD, PI, USC
Dana Goldman, PhD, PI, USC
Mark Hayward, PhD, PI, UT Austin
Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD PI, Stanford
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Eileen Crimmins, PhD, Core Director, USC
Jennifer Ailshire, PhD, Core Director, USC
Pinchas Cohen, MD, Advisory, USC
Jennifer Manly, PhD, Advisory, Columbia
Hector Gonzalez, PhD, Advisory, UCSD
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