Bibliography: Unpublished Studies

The bibliography consists of published and unpublished studies that examine trends in old-age health, disability and mortality. If you are aware of studies on these topics not listed in the bibliography, please email the citation to TRENDS.

2008

Wolf DA, and Gill TM. 2008. Fitting Event-History Models to Uneventful Data. TRENDS Working Paper 08-07.

2007

Lafortune G, and Balestat G et al. 2007. Trends in Severe Disability Among Elderly People: Assessing the Evidence in 12 OECD Countries and the Future Implications. OECD Health Working Papers No. 26.

2006

Akushevich I, Kulminshi A, Akushevich L, and Manton KG. 2006. Age Patterns of Disease Incidences in the U.S. Elderly: Population-Based Analysis. TRENDS Working Paper 06-6.

Freedman VA, Schoeni RF, Martin LG, Cornman J. 2006. Chronic Conditions and the Decline in Late-Life Disability. TRENDS Working Paper 06-5.

2005

Bhattacharya J, Choudhry K, and Lakdawalla D. 2005. Chronic Disease and Trends in Severe Disability in Working Age Populations. TRENDS Working Paper 05-04.

Freedman VA, Martin LG, Cornman J, Agree E, and Schoeni RF. 2005. Trends in Assistance with Daily Activities: Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities Persist in the U.S. Older Population. TRENDS Working Paper 05-2.

Schoeni RF, Freedman VA, and Martin LG. 2005. Socioeconomic and Demographic Disparities in Trends in Old-Age Disability. TRENDS Working Paper 05-1.

Schoeni RF, Liang J, Bennett J, Sugisawa H, Fukaya T, and Kobayashi E. 2005. Trends in Old-Age Functioning and Disability in Japan: 1993-2002. TRENDS Working Paper 05-3.

2004

Ofstedal M, Zimmer Z, Chan A, Chuang YL, Natividad J, and Tang Z. 2004. Changes in the prevalence of functional limitation among older Asians: A cross-national comparison. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, Washington DC, November.

2003

Cutler DM. 2003. Intensive Medical Technology and the Reduction in Disability.

Kaneda T, and Raymo JM. 2003. Trends in the Quantity and Quality of Life at Older Ages in Japan. In Demographic Change and the Family in Japan’s Aging Society. Ed JW Traphagan and J Knight. State University of New York Press, Albany.

Lakdawalla D, Bhattacharya J, Goldman D. 2003. Are the Young Becoming More Disabled? Appendix. Rand Health Working Paper WR-113.

2002

Spillman BC, Liu K, and McGilliard C. 2002. Trends in Residential Long Term Care: Use of Nursing Homes and Assisted Living and Characteristics of Facilities and Residents. with Korbin Liu and Cary McGilliard. Report to the Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Office of Aging and Long-Term Care Policy.

2001

Corder EH, and Manton KG. 2001. Change in the prevalence of severe dementia among older Americans: 1982-1999. Paper presented at the IUSSP XXIV General Population Conference, Salvador, Brazil, August.

Freedman VA, and Aykan H. 2001. The contribution of medication use to recent trends in old-age functioning. Report prepared for the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation.

Gersten O, and Wilmoth JR. 2001. Cancer mortality in Japan since 1951: Trends, causes, and implications. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington, DC.

Kinsella K, and Velkoff AV. 2001. An Aging World: 2001. U.S. Census Bureau. Series P95/01-1. US Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 2001.

2000

McClellan M, and Yan L. 2000. Understanding disability trends in the U.S. elderly population: the role of disease management and disease prevention. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America..

1999

Aykan H, Freedman VA, and Martin LG. 1999. Re-weighting the Second Supplement on Aging to the 1994 National Health Interview Survey for trend analyses. RAND Labor and Population Program Working Paper Series DRU-2066-NIA.

1997

Center for Disease Control C. 1997. Trends in the prevalence and incidence of self-reported diabetes mellitus, 1980-1994. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 46:1014-1018..

Kuh D, and Ben-Shlomo Y. 1997. A life course approach to chronic disease epidemiology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

1994

Freedman VA, and Soldo BJ. 1994. Forecasting disability: Workshop summary. Convened by the Committee on National Statistics of the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council. October 4-5 1993. Washington DC: National Academy PressSoldo.


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