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Vicki A Freedman
Faculty Associate; Training Faculty
Research Professor, Survey Research Center and Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research
Research Professor, Survey Research Center and Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research
Research Interests:
Dr. Freedman is a Research Professor at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. She is currently the Director of the Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging. Over the past decade Freedman has held leadership roles in several national survey efforts. She has co-led the National Health and Aging Trends Study and the National Study of Caregiving since their inception and has served as an Associate Director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Through these efforts she has been instrumental in disseminating new measures to study disability and care needs of older adults. She has published extensively on the topics of population aging, disability trends and long-term care and has investigated the connections among disability, time use and wellbeing in later life.
Select Publications
- Vicki A Freedman, Cornman, Jennifer C. 2024. Dementia Prevalence, Incidence and Mortality Trends Among US Adults Ages 72 and Older, 2011-2021. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A
- Vicki A Freedman, Hu,Mengyao. 2024. Addressing Practice Affects in Population-based Studies of Trends in Late-Life Dementia and Cognitive Impairment. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A
- Patterson,Sarah Elizabeth, Vicki A Freedman, Jennifer C. Cornman, Jennifer L. Wolff. 2023. Work as overload or enhancement for family caregivers of older adults: Assessment of experienced well-being over the day. Journal of Marriage and Family 85(3):760-781.
- Vicki A Freedman, Agree, Emily M, Seltzer, Judith A, Birditt,Kira S, Fingerman, Karen L, Esther M Friedman, Lin, I-Fen, Margolis, Rachel, Park, Sung S, Patterson,Sarah Elizabeth, Polenick, Courtney A, Reczek, Rin, Reyes, Adriana M, Truskinovsky, Yulya, Wiemers, Emily E, Wu, Huijing, Wolf, Douglas A, Wolff, Jennifer L, Zarit, Steven H. 2023. Changing Demography of Late-Life Family Caregiving: A Research Agenda to Understand Future Care Networks for An Aging U.S. Population. The Gerontologist
- Vicki A Freedman, Agree, Emily M, Seltzer, Judith A, Birditt,Kira S, Fingerman, Karen L, Esther M Friedman, Lin, I-Fen, Margolis, Rachel, Park, Sung S, Patterson,Sarah Elizabeth, Polenick, Courtney A, Reczek, Rin, Reyes, Adriana M, Truskinovsky, Yulya, Wiemers, Emily E, Wu, Huijing, Wolf, Douglas A, Wolff, Jennifer L, Zarit, Steven H. 2023. The Changing Demography of Late-Life Family Caregiving: A Research Agenda to Understand Future Care Networks for an Aging U.S. Population. The Gerontologist
- Deborah M. Oyeyemi, I-Fen Lin, Haowei Wang, Daniel Gan, Monique J. Brown, Vicki A Freedman, Mark Manning. 2023. Changes in late-life assistance networks for Black and White older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- Twardzik, Erica, Falvey, Jason R., Clarke,Philippa J, Vicki A Freedman, Schrack, Jennifer A., Twardzik, Erica, Falvey, Jason R., Clarke, Philippa J., Freedman, Vicki A., Schrack, Jennifer A.. 2023. Public transit stop density is associated with walking for exercise among a national sample of older adults. BMC Geriatrics 23(1):1-13.
- Twardzik, Erica, Schrack, Jennifer A, Vicki A Freedman, Reed, Nicholas S, Josh Ehrlich, Martinez-Amezcua, Pablo. 2023. An Incomplete Model of Disability: Discrepancies Between Performance-Based and Self-Reported Measures of Functioning. The Journals of Gerontology: Series A
- McGonagle,Katherine A, Narayan Sastry, Freedman,Vicki A. 2022. The Effects of a Targeted “Early Bird” Incentive Strategy on Response Rates, Fieldwork Effort, and Costs in a National Panel Study. Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology
- Brown, Monique J, Wang, Haowei, Lin, I-Fen, Gan, Daniel, Oyeyemi, Deborah, Manning, Mark, Freedman,Vicki A. 2022. COVID-19-Related Changes in Assistance Networks for U.S. Older Adults with and without Dementia. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B