Supporting health in aging populations

 

Substantive expertise

  • Concurrent progression of complex chronic conditions
    • Dementia and cognitive impairment
    • Multimorbidity
    • Mobility limitations
  • Identification of modifiable risk/protective factors
    • Comorbid chronic conditions
    • Dietary intake
    • Food insecurity
  • Cohort trends in population health 

Methodological expertise

  • Longitudinal modeling
    • Growth modeling (latent and multilevel approaches)
    • Gaussian, logit, Poisson, ZIP/ZINB distributions
    • Survival analysis
  • Classification models
    • Latent class analysis
  • Analysis of dynamic health data
    • Household clustered national probability samples
    • Non-random missing data (mortality selection)
  • Toolkit
    • R (e.g., Tidyverse, ggplot2, glmmTMB, lavaan)
    • SAS (e.g., PROC SURVEYREG, PROC GLIMMIX, arrays/macros)
    • Mplus