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  • Friday, January 8, 2021; 8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

    Topics: Course Introduction & Epidemiology of Aging Overview

    Presenter: Jackie Torres


    • Session Slides:

    • Slides - Week 1 File
      Not available unless: You belong to Registered Students Only

    • Required Reading:

    • Crimmins & Beltrán-Sánchez - JGSS 2011 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Aronson - 2019 - Elderhood [Excerpt] File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Beam Dowd J et al - PNAS 2020 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Nepomuceno - PNAS 2020 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

  • Friday, January 15, 2021; 8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

    Topic: Methods Themes: Selection Bias in Epidemiology of Aging Research

    Presenter: Jackie Torres

    • Session Slides:

    • Slides - Week 2 File
      Not available unless: You belong to Registered Students Only

    • Assignment:

    • Class Participation Assignment

    • Required Reading:

    • Howe & Robinson - Epidemiology 2018 File
      Not available unless: You belong to Registered Students Only
    • Banack et al - JAGS 2019 File
      Not available unless: You belong to Registered Students Only
    • Ospina-Romero - JAMA Netw Open 2020 File
      Not available unless: You belong to Registered Students Only

  • Friday, January 22, 2021; 8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

    Topic: Methods Themes: Measurement in the Epidemiology of Aging

    Presenter: Jackie Torres

    • Session Slides:

    • Slides - Week 3 File

    • Required Reading:

    • Gianattasio - Epidemiology 2019 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Magaziner - AJE 1997 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Freedman - JGMS 2011 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

  • Friday, January 29, 2021; 8:45 AM - 10:45 AM

    Topic: Biology of Aging

    Presenter: Steve Cummings

    • Session Slides:

    • Assignment:

    • Write-up Regarding Measurement Assignment

      Each student must focus on a unique domain or construct relevant to the epidemiology of aging and write two single-spaced pages that consider the issues of measurement that may arise in research in the selected domain. Use standard 8.5"x11" pages with 1-inch margins and an 11- or 12-point standard font. Adhere to length limits; the instructor will not read beyond the length specified. Due at 8:45am.

    • Required Reading:

    • López-Otin et al - 2013 - Cell File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

  • February 7, 2021; 8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

    Topic: Global Perspectives on Aging

    Presenter:  Kala Mehta

    • Session Slides:

    • Assignment:

    • Required Reading:

  • Friday, February 12, 2021; 8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

    Topics: Longitudinal Methods for Aging Populations & the Life Course Perspective

    Presenters: Jackie Torres, Students

    • Session Slides:

    • Slides - Week 6 File

    • Required Reading:

    • Power - Epidemiol 2013 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Mishra - Int J Epidemiol 2009 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

  • Friday, February 19, 2021; 8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

    Topic: Multimorbidity and Chronic Disease

    Presenters: Jackie Torres, Students

    • Session Slides:

    • Slides - Week 7 File

    • Assignment:

    • Student Presentation Assignment
      Not available unless: You belong to February 22 Presentations

    • Required Reading:

    • Quiñones - PLoS One - 2019 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Lunde - AJE - 2018 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

  • Friday, February 26, 2021; 8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

    Topic: The Epidemiology of Sarcopenia

    Presenter: Peggy Cawthon

    • Assignment:

    • Required Reading:

    • Manini and Clark - JGSS 2012 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Basin - JAGs 2020 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Bianchi - J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2016 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

  • Friday, March 5, 2021; 8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

    Topics: Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias

    Presenters:  Jackie Torres, Students

    • Assignment:

    • Required Reading:

    • Skoog - Sci Reports 2017 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Satizabal - NEJM 2016 File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

  • Friday, March 13, 2020; 8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

    Topic: Cognitive Decline and Cognitive Reserve

    Presenter: Jackie Torres

  • Friday, March 19, 2021; 8:45 AM - 10:15 AM

    Topics: Epidemiology of Aging and COVID-19, Course Wrap-up

    Presenter: Jackie Torres

    • Session Slides:

    • Assignment:

      Final Projects Due

    • Final Assignment

      This assignment will center on an unsettled question or debate relevant to the epidemiology of aging – and ideally to the student’s own research interests. This assignment will require writing five single-spaced pages that describe the unsettled question or debate with a brief summary of existing literature, the competing theoretical perspectives, the core methodological issues that have precluded a clear answer to the question (with a focus on selection bias and/or measurement error as relevant to your study), and the ideal study or set of studies that would be required to settle the debate, argument, or unsettled question in the epidemiology of aging. Use standard 8.5"x11" pages with 1-inch margins and an 11- or 12-point standard font. Adhere to length limits; the instructor will not read beyond the length specified. Due at 8:45am on March 19th


    • Required Reading: