This Project Grant award, valued at $708,237, was provided by the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) to Duke University. The grant, titled "Dynamics of Ghanaian Immigrants' Health in the US: Critical Life-Stage Experiences, Social Networks, Acculturation and Selection (GMHES)," aims to collect and analyze binational data on the physical and mental health of Ghanaian immigrants in the U.S. compared to native-born Black Americans and Ghanaians in Ghana. The...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides $249,000 to the University of Southern California to examine how older Korean immigrants' cognitive health is shaped by cognitive reserves and social interactions in senior housing. The study aims to: 1) assess the effect of cognitive reserves (e.g., education, acculturation) on cognitive health, 2) examine the effect of social interactions (bonding, bridging, bullying) on cognitive...
This $839,262 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) will support a multilevel investigation into the effects of migration on the risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) among Mexican Americans. Conducted by the Trustees of Columbia University, the study will leverage a unique binational dataset to (1) estimate the impact of migration, US residence, and acculturation on cognitive function and dementia risk, (2) evaluate how...
This $562,314 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Institute on Aging under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) supports a 3-year study to identify risk and protective factors associated with psychosocial resilience in spousal caregivers for spouses with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. The study leverages data from several large, longitudinal cohort studies, including the Health and Retirement Study, to examine how caregivers' well-being, mental health, and cognitive...
This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) will provide $123,579 to Northeastern University to conduct a mixed-methods study on the interplay of social and physical environments, loneliness, and cognition among older adults living with HIV. The 5-year project aims to: 1) determine the longitudinal patterns of loneliness and cognition, 2) identify social and physical environment factors related to loneliness and...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) will fund a study on the cumulative demographic and health effects of climate exposures across the life course in Indonesia and Mexico. The $171,498 award, effective September 20, 2024 through August 31, 2026, will enable researchers at the Pennsylvania State University to analyze how temperature and precipitation anomalies during critical life stages (early childhood, adolescence, early adulthood)...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $378,235 Project Grant (CFDA #47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) to The Washington University in St. Louis to conduct collaborative research on how individuals, families, and communities adapt their strategies to support culturally appropriate eldercare in response to demographic and socioeconomic changes driven by migration. The 3-year research project, which includes a subaward to Dartmouth College, will use ethnographic...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides $460,844 to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to conduct the "LIFE-COURSE ACCULTURATION TRAJECTORIES AND DEMENTIA IN A MULTI-ETHNIC COHORT OF OLDER ADULTS: THE MESA ACCULTURATION AND DEMENTIA STUDY". The study aims to leverage longitudinal data from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) to identify unique life-course acculturation patterns among...
This federal Project Grant award for $729,567, provided by the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research), will fund a study to investigate the causal impacts of two key childhood environmental conditions - school quality and infectious disease exposure - on adult health and mortality outcomes. The study aims to construct a novel dataset linking individual-level childhood environment factors to longevity, in order to examine how these modifiable conditions affect schooling,...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides $163,979 to the Trustees of Dartmouth College to evaluate the long-term health impacts of housing instability and racial/ethnic disparities among Black, Latino, and white households. The study will leverage longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to: 1) estimate the effects of housing instability on late-life health outcomes, 2) determine if racial/ethnic disparities in...