Minority Aging and Health Economics Research Center
Featured Topics
Lead story
Other featured articles
-
NIH Awards USC School of Pharmacy, Price School of Public Policy 5-Year Grant to Support Minority Aging Research in Schaeffer Center
The $2.7 million award funds scholars pursuing research in health disparities in aging with an emphasis on Alzheimer’s disease.
Posted in -
The Troubling Health of Our Hearts
Using the Future Elderly Model, Schaeffer Center researchers analyze trends in heart failure and estimate what would happen if a cure was discovered.
Posted in -
Early Childhood Education Pays Big Dividends, Study Says
2015-2016 RCMAR Scholar and Associate Economist Maria Jose Prados quoted in Ed Source about a study on the lifetime consequences of early childhood education.
Posted in -
The Association of Multiple Anti-Hypertensive Medication Classes with Alzheimer’s Disease Incidence Across Sex, Race, and Ethnicity
The researchers find hypertension management treatments that include RAS-acting ARBs may, in addition to lowering blood pressure, reduce AD risk, particularly for white and black women and white men.
Posted in
About this section
The Minority Aging Health Economics Research Center provides mentorship to scholars with research focused on the health and economic wellbeing of minority elderly populations. The program is led by Dana Goldman and Julie Zissimopoulos.
Leadership and 2018-2019 RCMAR Fellows
WORK FROM THE MINORITY AGING AND HEALTH ECONOMICS RESEARCH CENTER
-
Some Blood Pressure Medications May Reduce Risk of Alzheimer’s, But Not For All Populations
Certain antihypertensive medications may prevent the onset of the disease, but only among black and white women and white men.
-
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Trends in Dementia Prevalence and Risk Factors in the United States
The researchers find disparities in dementia prevalence declined between blacks and whites and increased between Hispanics and whites.
-
Mass Incarceration, Racial Disparities in Health, and Successful Aging
Over the past forty years, the United States has taken part in an experiment in mass incarceration. This article explores the impact that mass incarceration might have on successful aging and racial disparities in aging outcomes.
-
Education and Psychosocial Functioning Among Older Adults: 4-Year Change in Sense of Control and Hopelessness
In this study, researchers found a cumulative advantage of higher levels of education for psychosocial functioning in older adults.
-
Disentangling the Stress Process: Race Differences in the Experience of Chronic Stressors
Older blacks and US-born and foreign-born Hispanics report more chronic stress exposure than whites and are two to three times as likely to experience financial strain and housing-related stress.
-
Recent Trends in Life Expectancy Across High Income Countries: Retrospective Observational Study
Jessica Ho and Arun Hendi assessed whether declines in life expectancy occurred in other high income countries during 2014-16, the main age groups and causes of death contributing to these declines, and the extent to which these declines were driven by shared or differing factors across countries.