Research Assistant Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
Biography
Dr. Sarah E. Patterson is a Demographer and Sociologist. Currently, she is a Research Assistant Professor at the Survey Research Center and a Faculty Affiliate at the Population Studies Center, both at the University of Michigan. She is working on projects related to families, aging, and caregiving. More broadly, her research addresses whether and how social norms influence attitudes, behaviors, and outcomes related to the family. Her research falls into the following three domains: the demography of aging and the life course; family demography and intergenerational inequality; and, gender inequality at the work/family nexus.
The Effects of COVID-19 on Long Term Care for High-Need Older Adults with and without Alzheimer’s Disease and Related DementiasFunded Research
Publications
- Sarah Elizabeth Patterson, Adriana M. Reyes. 2024. Changes in Americans? Views on Who Should Provide and Pay for Assistance to Older Adults with Activity Limitations, 2012 to 2022. Socius 10
- Wu, Huijing, Margolis, Rachel, Verdery, Ashton, Sarah Elizabeth Patterson. 2024. Changes in Family Structure and Increasing Care Gaps in the United States, 2015-2050. Demography 61(5):1403-1426.
- Sarah Elizabeth Patterson. 2023. Cohabiting adult children’s transfers to parents in the United States. Journal of Marriage and Family 85(1):321-336.
- Mengyao Hu, Vicki A Freedman, Sarah Elizabeth Patterson, Lewis, Nora. 2023. Shared Care Networks Assisting Older Adults: New Insights from the National Health and Aging Trends Study. The Gerontologist 63(5):840-850.
- Sarah Elizabeth Patterson, Vicki A Freedman, Jennifer C. Cornman, Jennifer L. Wolff. 2023. Work as overload or enhancement for family caregivers of older adults: Assessment of experienced well-being over the day. Journal of Marriage and Family 85(3):760-781.
- Vicki A Freedman, Agree, Emily M, Seltzer, Judith A, Kira S Birditt, Fingerman, Karen L, Esther M Friedman, Lin, I-Fen, Margolis, Rachel, Park, Sung S, Sarah Elizabeth Patterson, Polenick, Courtney A, Reczek, Rin, Reyes, Adriana M, Truskinovsky, Yulya, Wiemers, Emily E, Wu, Huijing, Wolf, Douglas A, Wolff, Jennifer L, Zarit, Steven H. 2023. Changing Demography of Late-Life Family Caregiving: A Research Agenda to Understand Future Care Networks for An Aging U.S. Population. The Gerontologist
- Vicki A Freedman, Agree, Emily M, Seltzer, Judith A, Kira S Birditt, Fingerman, Karen L, Esther M Friedman, Lin, I-Fen, Margolis, Rachel, Park, Sung S, Sarah Elizabeth Patterson, Polenick, Courtney A, Reczek, Rin, Reyes, Adriana M, Truskinovsky, Yulya, Wiemers, Emily E, Wu, Huijing, Wolf, Douglas A, Wolff, Jennifer L, Zarit, Steven H. 2023. The Changing Demography of Late-Life Family Caregiving: A Research Agenda to Understand Future Care Networks for an Aging U.S. Population. The Gerontologist
- Sarah Elizabeth Patterson, Margolis, Rachel. 2023. Family Ties and Older Adult Well-Being: Incorporating Social Networks and Proximity. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 78(12):2080–2089.
- Jeffrey E. Stokes, Sarah Elizabeth Patterson. 2022. Caregiving and Self-Esteem in Mid and Later Life: Is There Variation by Age, Parental Status, and Gender?. The International Journal of Aging and Human Development
- Vicki A Freedman, Sarah Elizabeth Patterson, Jennifer C. Cornman, Jennifer L. Wolff. 2022. A day in the life of caregivers to older adults with and without dementia: Comparisons of care time and emotional health. Alzheimer's & Dementia 18(9):1650-1661.
- Sarah Elizabeth Patterson, Tate, Ashley M, Hu, Yi-Ling, Wang, Jue Jessie, Schoeni, Robert F, Hwajung Choi. 2022. The Social Cost of Providing Care to Older Adults with and without Dementia. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 78(Supplement_1):S71–S80.
- Sarah Elizabeth Patterson, Adriana M. Reyes. 2022. Co-residence beliefs 1973-2018: Older adults feel differently than younger adults. Journal of Marriage and Family 84(2):673-684.
- Sarah Elizabeth Patterson, Schoeni, Bob, Vicki A Freedman, Seltzer, Judith A. 2021. Care Received and Unmet Care Needs Among Older Parents in Biological and Stepfamilies. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B
- Yellow Horse, Aggie J, Sarah Elizabeth Patterson. 2021. Greater Inclusion of Asian Americans in Aging Research on Family Caregiving for Better Understanding of Racial Health Inequities. The Gerontologist
- Sarah Elizabeth Patterson, Ashton M. Verdery, Jonathan Daw. 2020. Linked Lives and Childhood Experience of Family Death on Educational Attainment. Socius
- Sarah Elizabeth Patterson, Rachel Margolis, Ashton M. Verdery. 2020. Family embeddedness and older adult mortality in the United States. Population Studies 74(3):415-435.
- Jeffrey E. Stokes, Sarah Elizabeth Patterson. 2020. Intergenerational Relationships, Family Caregiving Policy, and COVID-19 in the United States. Journal of Aging & Social Policy 32(4-5):416-424.
- Sarah Elizabeth Patterson. 2020. Educational Attainment Differences in Attitudes toward Provisions of IADL Care for Older Adults in the U.S.. Journal of Aging & Social Policy
- Jonathan Daw, Ashton M. Verdery, Sarah Elizabeth Patterson. 2019. Beyond household walls: the spatial structure of American extended kinship networks. Mathematical Population Studies 26(4):208-237.
- Sarah Elizabeth Patterson, Rachel Margolis. 2019. The Demography of Multigenerational Caregiving: A Critical Aspect of the Gendered Life Course. Socius
- Megan Lemmon, Sarah Elizabeth Patterson, Molly A. Martin. 2018. Mothers’ Time and Relationship With Their Adolescent Children: The Intersecting Influence of Family Structure and Maternal Labor Force Participation. Journal of Family Issues 39(9)
- Sarah Elizabeth Patterson, Sarah Damaske, Christen Sheroff. 2017. Gender and the MBA: Differences in Career Trajectories, Institutional Support, and Outcomes. Gender & Society 31(3)
- Paul R. Amato, Sarah Elizabeth Patterson. 2017. Single-parent households and mortality among children and youth. Social Science Research 63:253-262.