Pilot Projects
Creation of data for minoritized populations
Addressing increasing attrition rates
New measurement technologies
Consent to additional data collection
Improving measurement in longitudinal studies of aging
Fall 2024
Crystal Ng and Kira Birditt: Positive Activities and Well-being among Dementia Care Dyads: A Pilot Test of a Scalable Positive Activity mHealth App (co-funded with MiCDA).
NIMLAS Topics: Differential Effectiveness of New Technologies
, Technology Gaps
Catherine Garcia: Measuring Aging-Related Neighborhood Characteristics in Puerto Rico using Google Street View.
NIMLAS Topics: Paradata
Hanyu Sun: Informed Consent and Cognitive Tests with Older Adults through Live Video and Prerecorded Video Interviewing.
NIMLAS Topics: Differential Consent
, Mode Effects and Cognition
- NIMLAS Plenary Dec 2024 (PDF)
Emily Mroz: Harnessing Technology for Collecting and Analyzing Caregiving Narratives.
NIMLAS Topics: Differential Effectiveness of New Technologies
, Technology Gaps
- NIMLAS Plenary Dec 2024 (PDF)
Fall 2023
Imke Herold, Yuri Pettinichi, and Arne Bethmann: Investigating Consent Rates for Linking Survey and Administrative Data in a Multilingual, Multinational, and Multicultural Context.
NIMLAS Topics: Differential Consent
- NIMLAS Plenary Dec 2024 (PDF)
Joseph Lariscy: Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Personally Identifiable Information Reporting and Longitudinal Mortality Follow-up among Older Americans.
NIMLAS Topics: Differential Attrition
- NIMLAS Plenary Dec 2024 (PowerPoint)
Neil Alexander: Sensor-Assessed Clinic versus Home Gait Measures in At-Fall Risk Older Adults.
NIMLAS Topics: Differential Effectiveness of New Technologies
, Technology Gaps
- NIMLAS Plenary Dec 2024 (PDF)
Fall 2022
Michal Engelman: Diversity, Aging, and Inclusion in the Midwest: Opportunities for New Directions (DIAMOND).
NIMLAS Topics: Recruitment Across Contexts
- DIAMOND Presentation NIMLAS 2.8.2023 (PDF)
- Final Project Report (PDF)
- NIMLAS Plenary Dec 2024 (PDF)
Florian Keusch and Bella Struminskaya: Measurement of Physical Activity in older adults through Data Donation (MPADD).
NIMLAS Topics: Data Donation
Colleen Peterson: Wearables Employment in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias Research (WEAR) – Development of Guidelines for Device Selection and Participant Protocols.
NIMLAS Topics: Differential Effectiveness of New Technologies
, Technology Gaps
- WEAR Presentation NIMLAS 2.8.2023 (PDF)
- Final Project Report (Word)
- NIMLAS Plenary Dec 2024 (PDF)
Christian Vazquez: Adaptation of eHealth Learning Intervention for Aging Spanish-dominant Latinos.
NIMLAS Topics: Survey Translation
, Respondent Engagement
- NIMLAS Plenary Dec 2024 (PowerPoint)
- Vazquez CE, Mauldin RL, Mitchell DN, Ohri F. Sociodemographic Factors Associated With Using eHealth for Information Seeking in the United States: Cross-Sectional Population-Based Study With 3 Time Points Using Health Information National Trends Survey Data. J Med Internet Res. 2024 Aug 14;26:e54745. doi: 10.2196/54745. PMID: 39141905; PMCID: PMC11358649. Publication 1