Relocation later in life and contact frequency with friends: Do contact modes matter?
October 10, 2022
Contact: Jared Wadley, 734-834-7719, [email protected] ARBOR—When older adults move to a new location far from their residence, their friends should not expect too many telephone calls or visits, according to a new University of Michigan study.U-M researchers examined changes in the...
Are Adult Children Close with their Stepparents?
September 26, 2022
Vicki Freedman discussed the strength of parent-adult child ties in biological and stepfamilies in Futurity. In their article for Demography, Freedman and coauthors found that the ties between biological families and stepfamilies were similar when parents share a child.Why ties are similar in...
Josh Ehrlich discussed the connection between vision impairment and cognitive health
September 22, 2022
In an article for the AARP, researchers discussed the connection between vision impairment and cognitive health.Researchers aren’t sure exactly how or why vision and cognitive health are related, but they believe it’s likely the same mechanism that links hearing loss to dementia.One...
The ties that bind: Joint children may strengthen stepfamily ties to older parents
September 19, 2022
Contact: Morgan Sherburne, 734-647-1844, [email protected] ARBOR—Researchers have been concerned that as the makeup of America’s families grows more complex, adult children in stepfamilies may not be as willing as those in biological families to care for aging parents.But a research...
Raphael Nishimura discussed the elections in Brazil with BBC News Brazil
September 16, 2022
Electoral polls from several respected institutions agree that former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) leads the polls, while the current president, Jair Bolsonaro (PL), is in second place. However the size of the lead varies widely. Raphael Nishimura discussed the reasons for this...
U.S. consumers feel worse now than they did during Covid lockdowns
September 7, 2022
While unemployment is at an historic low, consumer sentiment has rarely been so pessimistic. Inflation is at a four decade high and is driving much of the pessimism. Joanne Hsu, director of the Surveys of Consumers, said of the latest survey reading that consumers “signaled strong concerns...
Marijuana, hallucinogen use at all-time high among young adults
August 22, 2022
Contact: Morgan Sherburne, 734-647-1844, [email protected] ARBOR—Marijuana and hallucinogen use in the past year reported by young adults 19 to 30 years old increased significantly in 2021 compared to five and 10 years ago, reaching historic highs in this age group since 1988, according...
U-M Youth Policy Lab and TRAILS to study effectiveness of student mental health programming
August 18, 2022
Contact: Jon Meerdink ([email protected])ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The University of Michigan’s Youth Policy Lab (YPL) and TRAILS (Transforming Research into Action to Improve the Lives of Students) have been awarded a $3.8 million grant by the U.S. Department of Education Institute of...
Trivellore Raghunathan won 2022 ASA Monroe Sirken Award
August 11, 2022
Trivellore Raghunathan has won the 2022 ASA Monroe Sirken Award. This award recognizes distinguished researchers for contributions to interdisciplinary survey research that improve the theory and methods of collecting, verifying, processing, presenting, or analyzing survey data. Dr....
NIA R24 grant to fund five-year methodological research network
August 3, 2022
Contact: Jon Meerdink, [email protected] ARBOR — The National Institute on Aging has awarded a five-year R24 grant to a team from the Institute for Social Research intended to advance the methodological techniques used in longitudinal studies of aging.The team, which includes Brady...
