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NBER: NSHAP Workshop at the 2012 PAA Annual Meeting
NSHAP Workshop at the 2012 PAA Annual Meeting
>Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:03:55 -0400
>From: "Kerri Cross" <kerris_at_umich.edu>
>To: <NIA-Directors_at_umich.edu>
>Cc: "Sara Leitsch" <Leitsch-Sara_at_norc.org>
>
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>Population Association of America (PAA) Annual
>Meeting Pre-Conference Workshop:
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>“Introduction to the National Social Life,
>Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP) Longitudinal Data”
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>Union Square Room 17-18 on the 4th Floor, San
>Francisco Hilton Union Square, 333 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco CA
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>Wednesday, May 2, 2012
>12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
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>This workshop is free for all PAA Annual Meeting
>attendees. For more information or to register
>for the workshop, interested participants should
>email Katherine Morris
>(<mailto:Morris-Katherine_at_NORC.org>Morris-Katherine_at_NORC.org).
>
>Abstract: This half-day workshop will introduce
>participants to the National Social Life,
>Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP), which is an
>interdisciplinary, population-based,
>longitudinal study of community-dwelling older
>adults aged 57 to 85 and their marital or
>co-resident romantic partners. The survey
>integrates biological measures with a social
>scientific questionnaire to understand the
>health and well-being of older Americans. This
>workshop is especially relevant to researchers
>interested in: aging, sexuality, and social
>relationships; social network analysis;
>multi-mode survey design; and the incorporation
>of biological measures of health in population research.
>
>Principal Investigator Linda Waite will
>introduce workshop participants to the
>theoretical framework of the project, including
>the Interactive Biopsychosocial Model (IBM) that
>was developed for and guides the analytical
>approach of the study. Next, William Dale,
>co-investigator and Chief of Geriatrics and
>Palliative Medicine at the University of Chicago
>Medical Center, will review the opportunities
>for, challenges to, and the usefulness of
>incorporating NSHAP biomeasures and clinical
>assessments in longitudinal social science
>research. Finally, Phil Schumm, co-investigator
>and Senior Biostatistician in the Department of
>Health Studies, will present the sample design,
>data structure, and sample weights. He will also
>review dyadic and social network data structure
>and methods of analysis. The workshop aims to
>provide participants with the necessary tools to
>access and analyze NSHAP Waves 1 (2005-2006) and
>2 (2010-2011), including the partner, social
>network, and biomeasure data components.
>
Joan P. Stillwell
Program Manager
Economics of Aging, NBER
617-588-0363
Received on Thu Apr 12 2012 - 14:25:20 EDT
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