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, Cornman, Jennifer C, Wolff, Jennifer L. 2025. Caregiving Trajectories and Unmet Care Needs in Later Life. The Gerontologist 65(4):gnae136.
- Ng, Yee To, Vicki A Freedman, Kratz, Anna, Kira S Birditt. 2025. Beyond Caregiving: Daily Pleasant Activities among Caregivers to Older Adults with and without Dementia. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 80(2):gbae198.
- Truskinovsky, Yulya, Vicki A Freedman, Hoffman, Geoffrey J, Amanda Noel Leggett, Wiemers, Emily. 2025. Changes in Long-term Services and Supports Among Adults with and without Dementia During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Innovation in Aging
- Jennifer L. Wolff, Jennifer C. Cornman, Vicki A Freedman. 2025. The Number Of Family Caregivers Helping Older US Adults Increased From 18 Million To 24 Million, 2011-22. Health Affairs
- Sarah Elizabeth Patterson, Vicki A Freedman. 2025. Family Structure and Unmet Care Needs among Older Adults with and without Dementia in the U.S. The Gerontologist
- Amanda Noel Leggett, Haldar, Srabani, Tsuker, Sophia, Lai, Wenhua, Nemmers, Natasha, Hwajung Choi, Vicki A Freedman. 2025. Who's On Your Team? Classifying Dementia Caregiving Networks and Associations with the Well-being of Caregivers and Care Recipients with Dementia. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B
- Julia G. Burgdorf, Vicki A Freedman, Jennifer L. Wolff. 2025. A look at caregivers for community‐living persons with dementia: Implications for the GUIDE model. Alzheimer's & Dementia 21(3):e70013.
- Zhang, Yuan S., Gross, Alden L., Dougherty, Ryan J., Lindsay Kobayashi, Schrack, Jennifer A., Vicki A Freedman. 2025. Co-Calibration of Cognitive Performance in the National Health and Aging Trends Study with Health and Retirement Study's Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol: Implications for Dementia Classification. SSM - Population Health :101796.
- Mengyao Hu, Murphey, Yi Lu, Qin, Tian, Melipillán, Edmundo R, Laura Beth Zahodne, Richard D Gonzalez, Vicki A Freedman. 2025. Enhancing Dementia Classification for Diverse Demographic Groups: Using Vision Transformer-Based Continuous Scoring of Clock Drawing Tests. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B
- 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.