25th Anniversary Gala: Centers for Demography & Demography, Epidemiology and Economics of Aging

2018 Conference Agenda

July 11–12, 2018
RAND Headquarters
Santa Monica, California

8:00 – 8:30 a.m.	Breakfast & Optional NIH Office Hours
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.	Opening Remarks Kathleen Mullen, RAND Corporation and Director, RAND Summer Institute Workshop on Aging Michael D. Hurd, RAND Corporation and Director, RAND Center for the Study of Aging John Haaga, National Institute on Aging
9:00 – 10:15 a.m.	Courtney Coile, National Bureau of Economic Research and Wellesley College The Demography of Retirement
10:15 – 10:30 a.m.	Break
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.	Angela O'Rand, Duke University Socioeconomic Status and Mortality and Health Status in the Older Population
11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.	Lunch
12:45 – 2:00 p.m.	Vicki Freedman, University of Michigan The Demography of Late-Life Disability
2:00 – 3:15 p.m.	Kenneth M. Langa, University of Michigan Cognitive Aging, Dementia, and the Future of an Aging Society New Insights into the Dementia Epidemic Unfinished Business in Preventing Alzheimer Disease A Comparison of the Prevalence of Dementia in the United States in 2000 and 2012
3:15 – 3:30 p.m.	Break
3:30 – 4:45 p.m.	Pamela Herd, University of Wisconsin-Madison The Integration of Genetics Data into Population Based Studies: What Have We Learned?
4:45 – 5:15 p.m.	Colleen McCullough, RAND Corporation Optional Presentation: RAND HRS
6:00 – 9:00 p.m.	Reception and Dinner – Shutters Hotel

8:00 – 9:00 a.m.	Breakfast & Optional NIH Office Hours
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.	P30 Panel: Perspectives on Future Research on the Demography of Aging Moderator: Michael D. Hurd Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford University; William Dow, University of California, Berkeley; Irma Elo, University of Pennsylvania
10:30 – 11:00 a.m.	Break
11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.	Robert Levenson, University of California, Berkeley Emotion: Two Paths in Late Life Poor Caregiver Mental Health Predicts Mortality Of Patients With Neurodegenerative Disease
12:15 – 1:15 p.m.	Lunch
1:15 – 2:30 p.m.	Richard Suzman Memorial Lecture James M. Poterba, National Bureau of Economic Research & MIT Retirement Security in an Era of Low Real Interest Rates
2:30 – 2:45 p.m.	Break
2:45 – 4:00 p.m.	Kathleen Cagney, University of Chicago Place, Aging and Health
4:00 – 4:15 p.m.	Break
4:15 – 4:45 p.m.	Jenny Wilkens, University of Southern California Optional Presentation: Gateway to Global Aging Data
4:45 – 5:00 p.m.	Final Remarks & Adjourn