Aging and Health Studies
Gary Engelhardt conducts research on the economics of aging, household saving (Automatic Enrollment and Household Wealth Accumulation), employer-provided pensions, long-term care insurance, Social Security, taxation, and housing markets. He is currently studying the impact of pensions, Social Security, and Medicare on the retirement saving and income security of older Americans (Data Innovations). In addition to this work, he is evaluating the impact of housing and saving policies targeted to low-income households and the impact of population aging on housing markets.
Madonna Harrington Meyer is now conducting interviews for a new project on grandmothers who work and mind grandchildren.
Christine Himes focuses her research on obesity, health, and disability at older ages. Currently, she is examining the relationship between obesity and recovery from disability in later life and cross-national differences in mortality at extremely old ages.
Andrew London conducts research in demography, medical sociology, aging and the life course, HIV/AIDS, welfare reform, and carework. With Janet M. Wilmoth and other researchers at the Center for Policy Research, London has continued to work on a series of papers that address the effects of military service on later life health and mortality. London continues to work collaboratively with researchers at AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA) in New York City on two research projects, including a study of service needs and use among older persons with HIV/AIDS who receive services at GMHC (Gay Men’s Health Crisis) in New York City.
Tom Dennison directs the multidisciplinary Health Services Management and Policy (HSMP) program, a master’s level program that grants an advanced certificate of study and provides training in a multi-professional classroom setting where students in public administration, business administration, law, social work, and medicine jointly address pressing issues in health care delivery, financing, and public health. Students from the College of Law, the School of Management, and the College of Human Ecology have all participated in this program. Linkages between this program, the CPR research program, and the Lourie Lecture have been established and continue to expand. The program also maintains links with the local health care delivery system to permit students to learn in a living laboratory through the Commission for a Healthy Central New York, a collaborative community planning agency sponsored by Upstate Medical University, the Onondaga County Department of Health and Syracuse University, which Dennison chairs. Dennison is Associate Director of CNYMPH, a Masters in Public Health that is jointly sponsored as a collaborative degree between Syracuse University and Upstate Medical University.
Perry Singleton is a public and health economist whose recent research focuses on social policies that target people with disabilities. He is currently examining the effect of work-limiting disabilities on labor market outcomes and the labor disincentive effects of disability insurance. He is also studying the economic effects of health-care insurance administered through the US tax code.
Janet Wilmoth's research addresses issues related to older adult living arrangements, migration, and health status. Her current NIH funded research (with Andrew London) examines the impact of military service on health and mortality in later life. Janet is also the director of the SU Aging Studies Institute (ASI) which is dedicated to advancing aging scholarship through research, teaching, and service.
Douglas Wolf's research addresses a number of issues including the measurement and modeling of late-life disability, patterns and consequences of informal “family care” for older people, and the fiscal externalities of childbearing. He was recently awarded two grants from the National Institute on Aging. The first supports a new Center for Aging and Policy Studies, which helps to foster new research in two thematic areas: (1) age-related changes in everyday context, and (2) demographic change, late-life well-being and public policy. The second grant is to develop forecasting models for Medicare costs at the end of life. He is a member of the Working Group on Care, supported by the Russell Sage Foundation. He also collaborates with Janet Wilmoth and Andrew London in their research on the late-life health consequences of military service, and he is a member of the TRENDS group, whose focus is on trends in the population-level prevalence of disability.
For more information about CPR programs and research projects, contact Peggy Austin. You may also obtain general information about CPR by calling +1 315-443-3114, or by sending an email to ctrpol@syr.edu.