Workshops

The TRENDS Network has now held three research workshop on trends in disability and health with agendas below.

Agenda for the meeting of the TRENDS Network
November 16, 2007
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

Thursday Evening, November 15, 2007

7:00pm

Optional Group Dinner in Ann Arbor

Friday, November 16, 2007

8:45-9:15

Continental Breakfast

9:15-9:30

Introductions & Overview

9:30-10:20

Differences in Biochemical Markers of Chronic Disease Between the Disabled and Non-Disabled in Near Elderly Populations

Jay Bhattacharya

10:20-10:35

Break

10:35-11:25

Baby Boom Health Approaching 60

Linda Martin, Vicki Freedman, Bob Schoeni, Patti Andreski

11:25-12:15

Improving, Worsening, or Static? Trends in Health Among the Middle-Aged

Katrina Walsemann

12:15-12:30

Break to retrieve lunch and reconvene

12:30-1:20

Midlife Disability Trends and Subpopulations

Lois Verbrugge & Ezra Golberstein

1:20-1:35

Break

1:35-2:25

Recent Trends in the Health of the U.S. Near Elderly Population

Jim Lubitz

2:25-3:15

Next steps; Network business

* Author presenting the study is listed in italics.

Second Annual Meeting of the TRENDS Network
June 7th and 8th, 2007
Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan

Thursday, June 7, 2007

10:30

Introductions and review of the agenda

11:00

Mary Beth Landrum: Intensive Medical Care and Cardiovascular Disease Disability Reductions

12:00

Lunch

1:00

Linda Martin: Why is Late-life Disability Declining?

2:00

Vicki Freedman: Decline in Late-life Disability: The Role of Early- and Mid-life Factors

3:00

Break: Tour of the Ford School

3:45

Doug Wolf: Modeling Disability Dynamics with Uneventful Data

Friday, June 8, 2007

8:30

Continental breakfast

9:00

David Weir: Health, Retirement, and Cohort Trends in Health at Middle Age, 1992-2004

10:00

Jim Lubitz: Consistent Trends in Functional Limitations and Associated Medicare Spending from the MCBS and the NLTCS?

11:00

Break

11:15

Business meeting:
A. Discussion of potential collaborative projects
B. Date for next meeting

12:30

Lunch

1:00

Brenda Spillman: Assistive Devise Use Among the Elderly: Trends, Characteristics of Users, and Implications for Modeling

2:00

Jim Lubitz: Comparing Trends in Severe Disability Among the Elderly in 12 OECD Countries.
Mary Beth Ofstedal: Trends in Old-Age Disability in Asia: An Overview

3:00

Adjourn

Workshop On Trends in Disability and Health
February 17, 2006
University of Michigan

Thursday, February 16, 2006

7:30pm

Optional dinner

Friday, February 17, 2006

8:30-9:00

Continental breakfast

9:00-9:30

Introductions and overview of TRENDS

9:30-10:10

Doug Wolf: Trends in disability onset and recovery

10:10-10:50

Vicki Freedman: Trends, treatment patterns, and consequences of psychological distress in late life

10:50-11:05

Break

11:05-11:45

Jim Lubitz: Trends in active life expectancy: 1992-2002

11:45-1:00

Working lunch. Bob Wallace: Developments in measurement of health and disability in the HRS

1:00-1:40

Dawn Alley: Trends in Biological Risk Among Older Adults in the 1990s

1:40-2:20

Jay Bhattacharya: "Chronic Disease and Trends in Severe Disability in Working Age Populations."

2:20-2:35

Break

2:35-3:30

Setting the agenda for TRENDS