Poster Session 1: Aging, Life Course, Health, Mortality, and Health Care

Thursday, March 31 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Franklin Hall Level 4

1.	Childhood Exposure to Disease and Old Age Mortality: Long-Term Perspectives from the Nineteenth Century  •  George Alter, Indiana University; Michel Oris, Université de Genève

2.	Economic Well-Being among Elderly Couples in Marriage and Cohabitation: What Developed Countries Can Learn from Developing Countries like Mexico  •  Gilbert Brenes, University of Wisconsin at Madison

3.	Social and Economic Influences on Older Adults’ Preparations for End-of-Life Health Care Needs  •  Deborah Carr, Rutgers University; Dmitry Khodyakov, Rutgers University

4.	Projections of the Older Population: An Examination of the U.S. Census Bureau’s Projections over Time  •  Michelle Cheuk, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

5.	How to Get a Robust Estimation of the Modal Length of Life?  •  Siu Lan Karen Cheung, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM); Graziella Caselli, Università di Roma "La Sapienza"

6.	Active Life Expectancy and Functional Health Transitions among Filipino Older People  •  Grace T. Cruz, University of the Philippines; Yasuhiko Saito, Nihon University; Josefina Natividad, University of the Philippines

7.	Elderly Population in Puerto Rico: Sociodemographic Characteristics among the Poor and Non-Poor  •  Vivianna M. De Jesus, University of Puerto Rico

8.	Factors Associated with Maintaining IADL Independence: Application of Latent Trajectory Modeling  •  Hiroko H. Dodge, University of Pittsburgh; Mary Ganguli

9.	Medicare and Longevity in International Perspective  •  William H. Dow, University of California, Berkeley; Allan Parnell, Cedar Grove Institute

10.	Examining the Relation between Gender Disparity in Health and Employment, Education, and Family Roles: Evidence from Taiwan  •  Gang-Hua Fan

11.	From Divergence to Convergence in Sex Differentials in Adult Mortality in Developed Countries  •  Patrick Gerland, United Nations

12.	Life Time Mortality of Men with Normal and with Subnormal Sperm Counts  •  Sabine Groos, University of Marburg; Walter Krause, University of Marburg

13.	Obesity, Social and Demographic Context, and the Human Dopamine Receptor d4 (Drd4) Gene  •  Guang Guo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Kari North; Seulki Choi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

14.	Gender Differences in Social Contact after Spousal Loss  •  Jung-Hwa Ha, University of Michigan

15.	African Americans Mortality, Health and Health Care Utilization  •  Mian B. Hossain, Morgan State University; Laurencia S. Hutton, Morgan State University; Yvonne Bronner, Morgan State University

16.	Mortality Differences by Race, Ethnicity, and Nativity: Estimates from California  •  Hans Johnson, Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC); Joseph M. Hayes, Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC)

17.	Life Course Determinants of Racial Inequality at Older Ages  •  Joan R. Kahn, University of Maryland; Anthony Hatch, University of Maryland

18.	Neighborhood Context and Access to Healthcare: Does Residential Instability Matter?  •  Toshiko Kaneda, Population Reference Bureau; James B. Kirby, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

19.	A Comparative Analysis of Ageing and Socio-Economic Policies, between Tajikistan and India  •  Alisher Khaydarov, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

20.	Asian New Immigrants and Health  •  Jibum Kim, University of Chicago; Talya Salant, University of Chicago

21.	Family and Household Composition and Health: Mechanisms and Moderators over the Life Course  •  Tracey A. LaPierre, Duke University

22.	A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of Chronic Conditions on Wealth Change  •  Jinkook Lee, Ohio State University; Hyungsoo Kim, University of Kentucky

23.	Low Socioeconomic Status, Infection, and Heart Disease Risk Across the Lifecourse  •  Dawn Alley, University of Southern California

24.	Birth Spacing and Sibling Health Inequality at Birth  •  Aparna Lhila, Cornell University

25.	The Long Term Effect of Famine on Chinese Adult Mortality: A Cohort Analysis  •  Yong Li, Johns Hopkins University

26.	Body Mass Index and Health among the Union Army Veterans  •  Claudia Linares, University of Chicago; Dejun Su, University of Chicago

27.	Provincial Mortality of Chinese Oldest Old  •  Hui Liu, University of Texas at Austin

28.	Survival Convergence and the Preceding Mortality Crossover for Two Population Subgroups  •  Xian Liu, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS); Charles Engel, Jr., Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS); Han Kang, Department of Veterans Affairs

29.	Military Service and (Dis)Continuity in the Life Course: Evidence on Disadvantage and Mortality from the HRS and Ahead  •  Andrew S. London, Syracuse University; Janet Wilmoth, Syracuse University

30.	Family and Suicide: Gender Differences in the Effect of Children on Elevated Suicide Rates Following Spousal Loss  •  Patrick Lusyne, Ghent University; Hilary Page, Ghent University

31.	Retirement Behavior in Indonesia  •  Douglas McKee, University of California, Los Angeles

32.	The Status and Availability of Data on Centenarians: What Do We Have and What We Would like to Get?  •  James W. McNally, University of Michigan

33.	Social Security and Elderly Mortality  •  Cristian Meghea, American College of Radiology

34.	Migrants in the EU: Welfare in Old Age  •  Mahmood Messkoub, Leeds University

35.	Poverty and Mental Health across the Adult Life Course  •  Jennifer Moren-Cross, Duke University

37.	The Role of Demographic Changes in the Decline of Suicide in Sweden  •  Julianne Ohlander, Pennsylvania State University

38.	Neighborhood Effects on Primary Care Access  •  Julia C. Prentice, Boston University

39.	Racial and Ethnic Differences in Expectation of Length of Life: A Study of Older Adults  •  Jennifer Roebuck Bulanda, Bowling Green State University; Zhenmei Zhang, Bowling Green State University

40.	International Migration Experience and Standard of Living in Old Age  •  Mariano Sana, Louisiana State University; Chiung-Yin Hu, Louisiana State University

41.	Joint Retirement Decisions of Married Men and Women in Canada  •  Grant Schellenberg, Statistics Canada; Bali Ram, Statistics Canada; Martin Turcotte, Statistics Canada

42.	Older Health, Living Arrangements, and Family Support in China  •  Manisha Sengupta, U.S. Census Bureau; Wan He, U.S. Census Bureau; Kaiti Zhang, China Research Center on Aging; Ping Guo, China Research Center

43.	Balancing Work and Family Responsibility: Provision of Transfers from Late-Middle-Aged Working Adult Children to Their Elderly Mothers  •  Ching-Yi A. Shieh, University of Maryland

44.	Life Cycle Aspirations for Goods, Family and Work  •  Anke Zimmermann, University of Southern California

45.	Income and the Use of Prescription Drugs by the Elderly: Evidence from the Notch Cohorts  •  Kosali I. Simon, Cornell University; John Moran, Syracuse University

46.	The Mental Health of Men: Profiles and Life Trajectories of Urban American Fathers  •  Marilyn Sinkewicz, Columbia University

48.	The Role of Socioeconomic Status in Disaggregated Disability Trajectories among Older Adults in the United States  •  Miles G. Taylor, Duke University

49.	Diabetes, Functional Status and Resource Access: A Binational Comparison of Mexican Origin Elderly  •  Jennifer J. Tovar, University of Texas at Austin

50.	Contemporary Kinship: Family Composition Effects on Resources for Older Americans  •  Sarah Walchuk, University of California, Berkeley

52.

Tobacco Use among 13-15 Year Old Students in the Philippines, 2000-2003  •  Nathan R. Jones, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Marina Miguel-Baquilod, World Health Organization (WHO); Burke Fishburn, World Health Organization (WHO); Charles Warren, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); Jonathan Santos, World Health Organization (WHO); Samira Asma, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

54.	Life Satisfaction, Self-Rated Health, and Mortality in Taiwanese Elderly  •  Li-Shou Yang, University of Michigan; Mary Beth Ofstedal, University of Michigan; Shu-Hui Lin, Bureau of Health Promotion, Taiwan

55.	The Effects of Grandparent Care on Children’s Developmental Outcomes  •  Wei-Jun Jean Yeung, New York University; Rebecca Glauber, New York University

56.	Coresidence between Older Parents and Adult Children and Changes over Time: The Impact of Health and Socio-Demographic Factors  •  Vanessa Yong, Brown University

57.	Does the Present Allocation of Kidney Transplants in the US Maximize the Gain in Total Life Expectancy in the Potential Recipient Population?  •  Monique Zimmermann-Stenzel, University of Marburg

58.	Out-Migration of Young Adults and Living Arrangements of the Elderly in Rural China: The Case of Chaohu  •  Wenjuan Zhang, Xi'an Jiaotong University; Merril Silverstein, University of Southern California; Zhen Cong, University of Southern California

59.	Anticipation and Long Tern Decisions for the Elderly Americans: Determinants of Parent-Child Proximity  •  Yiduo Zhang, Johns Hopkins University

60.	Sexual Life and Self-Assessed Health: Is There a Link? A Study on Chinese Adults  •  Yingying Zhou, University of Washington

Click on a name for contact information
Click on a title to see the abstract
Click on the room name to see a floor plan