Sarah Elizabeth Patterson
Research Investigator, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research
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Dr. Sarah E. Patterson is a Demographer and Sociologist. Currently, she is a Research Investigator at the Survey Research Center and a Postdoctoral 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 97(3):306-326.
- 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.