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Research Interests:

Cayley Ryan-Claytor is a medical sociologist and demographer who researches population health, social determinants of health, and health services use across the life course. In particular, she is interested in how population aging dynamics and cohorts’ socioeconomic resource profiles interact to shape trends in population health. Some of her ongoing work focuses on:

• Cross-national analyses of the role of cohort succession in driving improvements in older adult cognitive health
• The relationships between exposure to online health information, medical mistrust, and use of traditional health services
• Social and biological influences on trajectories of subjective age (how old we ‘feel’) and subjective life expectancy (how much longer we expect to live) in older adulthood