A Remembrance of Things Past? Measuring Life Course Exposures and Studying Later Life Health Disparities
Dec
2
2022
Dec
2
2022
Event Description:
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A Remembrance of Things Past? Measuring Life Course Exposures and Studying Late Life Health Disparities Guest Lecture Friday, December 2, 2022 |
Sponsored by the Center on Aging and Population Sciences and the Population Research Center The University of Texas at Austin |
| Speaker | |
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| Sarah Burgard |
Professor, Epidemiology Associate Professor, Sociology University of Michigan |
Abstract: Major longitudinal studies of aging, including the Survey of Health and Ageing in Europe (SHARE), have used retrospective life history (RLH) interviews to collect earlier life course exposures. However, the reliability of RLH data has not been comprehensively evaluated against the "gold standard" of prospectively collected information. We present results from an adaptation of the SHARE RLH interview, fielded with the long-running Americans' Changing Lives (ACL) study (ACL-LIFE). We compare retrospectively and prospectively collected reports about meaningful and rare events as well as more common experiences. Results show substantial mismatches in reports of the presence, frequency, and timing of events. Further analyses explore the implications for life-course research on health disparities.
Location
RLP 1.302E
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