Vicki A Freedman
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Dr. Freedman is a Research Professor at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. She is currently the Director of the Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging. Over the past decade Freedman has held leadership roles in several national survey efforts. She has co-led the National Health and Aging Trends Study and the National Study of Caregiving since their inception and has served as an Associate Director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Through these efforts she has been instrumental in disseminating new measures to study disability and care needs of older adults. She has published extensively on the topics of population aging, disability trends and long-term care and has investigated the connections among disability, time use and wellbeing in later life.
- 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. 2024. Changing Demography of Late-Life Family Caregiving: A Research Agenda to Understand Future Care Networks for An Aging U.S. Population. The Gerontologist 64(2):gnad036.
- 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. 2024. The Changing Demography of Late-Life Family Caregiving: A Research Agenda to Understand Future Care Networks for an Aging U.S. Population. The Gerontologist 64(2):gnad036.
- Twardzik, Erica, Schrack, Jennifer A, Vicki A Freedman, Reed, Nicholas S, Josh Ehrlich, Martinez-Amezcua, Pablo. 2024. An Incomplete Model of Disability: Discrepancies Between Performance-Based and Self-Reported Measures of Functioning. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A 79(4):glad271.
- Vicki A Freedman, Cornman, Jennifer C. 2024. Dementia Prevalence, Incidence and Mortality Trends Among US Adults Ages 72 and Older, 2011-2021. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A
- Vicki A Freedman, Mengyao Hu. 2024. Addressing Practice Affects in Population-based Studies of Trends in Late-Life Dementia and Cognitive Impairment. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A
- Nemmers, Natasha, Lai, Wenhua, Tsuker, Sophia, Haldar, Srabani, Vicki A Freedman, Amanda Noel Leggett. 2024. Examining Care Network Characteristics in Older Adults' Relocation to Residential Care Settings. Innovation in Aging
- Vicki A Freedman, Cornman, Jennifer C, Wolff, Jennifer L. 2024. Caregiving Trajectories and Unmet Care Needs in Later Life. The Gerontologist
- Nemmers, Natasha, Lai, Wenhua, Tsuker, Sophia, Haldar, Srabani, Vicki A Freedman, Amanda Noel Leggett. 2024. Examining Care Network Characteristics in Older Adults? Relocation to Residential Care Settings. Innovation in Aging 8(10)
- 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.