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Curriculum Vitae VICKI A. FREEDMAN, Ph.D.

May 2014

CAREER BRIEF Dr. Freedman is a Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. She has published extensively on the topics of population aging, disability, and long-term care. She currently serves as co-Principal Investigator the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS), Associate Director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), and co-Director of the Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging (MiCDA). As part of a program project on health and wellbeing that she directs, she is leading a supplemental PSID study of disability, time use and well-being among older adults.

Prior to joining the University of Michigan, Dr. Freedman was a Professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. From 2000-2005 she was affiliated with Polisher Research Institute, a private, non-profit gerontological research organization (formerly, Philadelphia Geriatric Center), where she served first as a senior research scientist and then as director. From 1995 to 2000 she was a research scientist at RAND, a nonprofit, nonpartisan policy research organization. Dr. Freedman has served on over a dozen national advisory panels for federal agencies, including the Institute of Medicine’s 2005-2007 Committee on Disability in America. She was recently nominated to join the National Academies’ Committee on Population. She earned her doctorate in Epidemiology from Yale University and master’s degree in Demography from Georgetown University.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Research Professor, Survey Research Center 2009-present Faculty Associate, Survey Research Center 2007-2009 Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center and Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging 2009-present Co-Director, Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging (MiCDA) 2012-present

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey--School of Public Health New Brunswick, NJ Professor, Department of Health Systems and Policy 2005-2009 Graduate Course: Population Aging and Public Health 2007-2009 Associate Member, Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 2005-2009 Member of the Graduate Faculty, Rutgers University 2008-2009 Polisher Research Institute, Horsham, PA Abramson Center for Jewish Life (formerly Philadelphia Geriatric Center) Director and Vice President of Research 2002-2005 Senior Research Scientist 2000-2002 RAND, Washington, DC Social Scientist 1999-2000 Associate Social Scientist 1996-1999

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Rockville, MD Research Fellow 1993-1995

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EDUCATION

Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT Ph.D., Chronic Disease Epidemiology Dec. 1993

Georgetown University, Washington, DC M.A., Demography Dec. 1989

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY B.A., Government Jan. 1987

OTHER TEACHING AND ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Penn State University, University Park, PA Advisory Board Member, Center for Population Health and Aging 2004-2008 Research Affiliate, Population Research Institute 2001-2004 Georgetown University, Washington, DC Adjunct Faculty, Department of Demography 1997-1999 Professorial Lecturer (Research Design/Survey Design) 1997-1998 Guest Lecturer (Research Design) 1989,1990,1993,1999 Teaching Assistant (Research Design/Survey Design) 1989-1990 Co-Instructor (Applied Demography: Trends and 1990 Analysis for Business and Government Planning) JOURNAL ARTICLES

Under Review

Freedman, Vicki A. and Brenda C. Spillman. The Supportive Care Continuum: Size, Characteristics and Unmet Needs of Older Adults. Submitted to the Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences May 2014.

Carr, Deborah, Jennifer Cornman, Vicki A. Freedman. Does Marital Quality Protect Against

Distress? Marital Quality and Momentary Negative Mood in Later Life. Submitted to the Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences. May 2014.

Skolarus, Lesli, James F. Burke, Vicki A. Freedman. The role of accommodations in post-stroke

disability management. Submitted to the Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences. April 2014.

Wolf, Douglas, Vicki A. Freedman, Jan Ondrich, Christopher Seplaki, Brenda Spillman. Under

review. Disability trajectories at the end of life: a ‘countdown’ model. Submitted to Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences. Revised and resubmitted March 2014.

Published or In Press


Carr, Deborah, Vicki A. Freedman, Jennifer Cornman, Norbert Schwarz. In press. Happy

Couples, Happy Lives, Happy Days? Marital Quality Assessments and Subjective Well-Being in Later Life. Journal of Marriage and the Family.

Freedman, Vicki A. and Brenda Spillman. In press. Disability and Care Needs of Older

Americans. Milbank Quarterly. (expected publication: September 2014)

Burke, James F., Vicki A. Freedman, Lynda Lisabeth, Devin Brown, Adrianne Haggins, Lesli

Skolarus. In press. Racial differences in post-stroke disability: results from a nationwide study. Neurology. (expected publication: July/Aug 2014)

Freedman, Vicki A., Jennifer C. Cornman, and Deborah Carr. 2014. Is Spousal Caregiving

Associated with Enhanced Wellbeing? New Evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences. E-view ahead of print: doi:10.1093/geronb/gbu004.

Skolarus, Leslie, James Burke, Brown, Devin and Freedman, Vicki A. 2014. Understanding

Stroke Survivorship: Expanding the concept of post-stroke disability. Stroke 45(1):224-230. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.113.002874.

Freedman, Vicki A., Judith Kasper, Brenda Spillman, Emily Agree, Vincent Mor, Robert Wallace

and Douglas Wolf. 2014. Behavioral Adaptation and Late-Life Disability: A New Spectrum for Assessing Public Health Impacts. American Journal of Public Health. e-View Ahead of Print doi:10.2105/AJPH.2013.301687. PMCID In progress.

Freedman, Vicki A. 2014. Research Gaps in the Demography of Aging with Disability. Disability

and Health Journal. January 2014. PMCID: PMC3901947

Freedman, Vicki A., Jessica Broome, Frederick Conrad, and Jennifer Cornman. 2013. Interviewer and respondent interactions and quality assessments in a time diary study. Electronic International Journal of Time Use Research. 10:55-76. NIHMSID #554463

Freedman, Vicki A., Emily M. Agree, Jennifer Cornman, Brenda Spillman, Judith D. Kasper.

2013. Reliability and Validity of Self-Care and Mobility Accommodations Measures in the National Health and Aging Trends Study. The Gerontologist; published online at doi: 10.1093/geront/gnt104.

Freedman, Vicki A., Frederick Conrad, Jennifer Cornman, Norbert Schwarz, and Frank Stafford.

2013. Does Time Fly When You Are Having Fun? A Day Reconstruction Method Analysis. Journal of Happiness Studies. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10902-013-9440-0 NIHMSID # 478727

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Grafova, Irina, Vicki A. Freedman, Nicole Lurie, Rizie Kumar, Jeannette Rogowski. 2013. The Difference-in-Difference Method: Assessing the Selection Bias in the Effects of Neighborhood Environment on Health. Economics & Human Biology. Available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ehb.2013.03.007.

Freedman, Vicki A., Frank Stafford, Norbert Schwarz, and Frederick Conrad. 2013. Measuring

Time Use of Older Couples: Lessons from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Field Methods 25(4):405-422. doi:10.1177/1525822X12467142. PMCID: PMC3848247.

Schoeni, Robert F., Thomas Buchmueller, and Vicki A. Freedman. 2013. Socioeconomic status

and health over the life course and across generations: introduction to a special issue and overview of a unique resource. Berkeley Electronic Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy doi: 10.1515/1935-1682.3444. (Not considered peer reviewed).

Freedman, Vicki A., Spillman, Brenda C., Andreski, Patti M. et al. 2013. Trends in Late-Life

Activity Limitations: An Update from 5 National Surveys. Demography 50(2):661-671. PMCID: PMC3586750.

McGonagle, Kate, Robert Schoeni, Narayan Sastry, Vicki A. Freedman. 2012. The Panel Study

of Income Dynamics: Overview, Recent Innovations, and Potential for Life Course Research. Longitudinal & Life Course Studies 3(2):268-284. PMCID: PMC3591471.

Freedman, Vicki A., Frank Stafford, Frederick Conrad, Norbert Schwarz, and Jennifer Cornman.

2012. Time Together: An Assessment of Diary Quality For Older Couples. Annals of Economics and Statistics 105-106 (January-June 2012); 271-289. PMCID: PMC3613756.

Freedman, Vicki A., Frank Stafford, Norbert Schwarz, Frederick Conrad, and Jennifer

Cornman. 2012. Disability, Participation, and Subjective Wellbeing Among Older Couples. Social Science & Medicine. 74(4):588-96. PMCID: PMC3371257.

Agree, Emily and Vicki A. Freedman. 2011. A Quality of Life Scale for Assistive Technology:

Results from the Pilot Study of Aging and Technology. Physical Therapy Journal. 91(12):1780-8. PMCID: PMC3229043.

Freedman, Vicki A., Judy Kasper, Jennifer Cornman, Emily Agree, Karen Bandeen-Roche,

Vincent Mor, Brenda Spillman, Robert Wallace, Douglas Wolf. 2011. Validation of New Measures of Disability and Functioning in the National Health and Aging Trends Study. Journals of Gerontology. 66(9):1013-21. PMCID: PMC3156629.

Freedman, Vicki A., Irina Grafova, and Jeannette Rogowski. 2010. Neighborhoods and chronic

disease onset in later life. American Journal of Public Health. PMCID: PMC2912970.


Martin, Linda G., Vicki A. Freedman, Robert F. Schoeni, and Patti Andreski. 2010. Trends in disability and related chronic conditions among people ages 50 to 64. Health Affairs 29(4):725-731. PMCID: PMC2874878.

Martin, Linda G., Vicki A. Freedman, Robert F. Schoeni, and Patti Andreski. 2009. Health and

Functioning Among Baby Boomers Approaching 60. Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences 64(3):369-77. PMCID: PMC2670250.

Grafova, Irina B., Vicki A. Freedman, Rizie Kumar, Jeannette Rogowski. 2008. Neighborhoods

and Obesity in Later Life. American Journal of Public Health. 98(11):2065-2070. PMCID: PMC2636421.

Freedman, Vicki A., Irina Grafova, Robert F. Schoeni, and Jeannette Rogowski. 2008.

Neighborhoods and disability in later life. Social Science and Medicine 66(11):2253-2267 Available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.01.013. PMCID: PMC2478756.

Freedman, Vicki A., Linda G. Martin, Robert F. Schoeni, and Jennifer Cornman. 2008. Declines

in late-life disability: the role of early and mid-life factors. Social Science and Medicine 66/7:1588-1602. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.11.037. PMCID: PMC2408829.

Schoeni, Robert F., Vicki A. Freedman, and Linda G. Martin. 2008. Why is late-life disability

declining? Milbank Memorial Quarterly 86(1):47-89. PMCID: PMC2690336.

Rogowski, Jeannette, Vicki A. Freedman, Steven L. Wickstrom, John Adams, and Jose Escarce. 2008. Socioeconomic disparities in visits to physicians among Medicare managed care enrollees. Inquiry 45(1):112-129.

Cornman, Jennifer C. and Vicki A. Freedman. 2008. Racial Disparities in Mobility Device Use in

Late-Life. Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences 63B(1):S34-S41.

Freedman, Vicki A., Robert F. Schoeni, Linda G. Martin, Jennifer C. Cornman. 2007. Chronic Conditions and the Decline in Late-Life Disability. Demography. 44(3):459-477.

Martin, Linda G., Robert F. Schoeni, Vicki A. Freedman, Patricia Andreski. 2007. Trends in Self-

Assessed Health in Late life. Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences 62B(1):S11-S21.

Freedman, Vicki A., Nancy Hodgson, Joanne Lynn, Brenda Spillman, Timothy Waidmann, Anne Wilkinson and Douglas A. Wolf. 2006. Promoting declines in the prevalence of late-life disability: Comparisons of three potentially high-impact interventions. Milbank Memorial Quarterly 84(3):493-520.

Freedman, Vicki A., Emily Agree, Linda G. Martin, Jennifer Cornman. 2006. Trends in the use

of assistive technology and personal care for late-life disability, 1992-2001. Gerontologist. 46(1): 124-127.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.01.013

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.11.037


Kapur, Kanika, Jeannette A. Rogowski, Vicki A. Freedman, Steven L. Wickstrom, John L.

Adams, Jose J. Escarce. 2006. Socioeconomic status and medical care expenditures in Medicare managed care. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 17(4): 876-898.

Freedman, Vicki A., Maggie Calkins, Kimberly Van Haitsma. 2005. An exploratory study of

barriers to implementing technology in U.S. residential long-term care settings. Gerontechnology 4(2):86-100.

Schoeni, Robert, Linda Martin, Patricia Andreski, Vicki A. Freedman. 2005. Persistent and

Growing Socioeconomic Disparities in Disability Among the Elderly: 1982-2002. American Journal of Public Health 95(11):2065-2070.

Agree, Emily, Vicki A. Freedman, Jennifer Cornman, Douglas A. Wolf, and John E. Marcotte.

2005. Reconsidering substitution in long-term care: when does assistive technology take the place of personal care? Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences 60(5):S272-80.

Cornman, Jennifer, Vicki A. Freedman, Emily M. Agree. 2005. Measurement of assistive device

use: implications for estimates of device use and disability in late life. The Gerontologist 45(3):347-58

Freedman, Vicki A., Eileen Crimmins, Robert F. Schoeni, Brenda Spillman, Hakan Aykan, Ellen

Kramarow, Kenneth Land, James Lubitz, Kenneth Manton, Linda Martin, Diane Shinberg, Tim Waidmann. 2004. Resolving inconsistencies in trends in old-age disability: report from a technical working group. Demography 41(3):417-441.

Freedman, Vicki A., Hakan Aykan, John E. Marcotte, and Douglas A. Wolf. 2004. Disability and

home care dynamics among unmarried older Americans. Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences 59B(1):S25-S33.

Agree, Emily, Vicki A. Freedman, and Manisha Sengupta. 2004. Factors influencing the use of

mobility technology in community-based long-term care. Journal of Aging and Health. 16(2):267-307.

Hodgson, Nancy, Vicki A. Freedman, Douglas A. Granger, Amy Behel. 2004. Biobehavioral

correlates of relocation in the frail elderly: salivary cortisol, affect, and cognitive function. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 52(11):1856-1862.

Freedman, Vicki A., Jeannette Rogowski, Steve Wickstrom, John Adams, Jonas Marainen, Jose

Escarce. 2004. Socioeconomic Disparities in the Use of Home Health Services in a Medicare Managed Care Population. Health Services Research 39(5):1277-98.


Morales, Leo; Jeannette Rogowski; Vicki A. Freedman, Steven L. Wickstrom, John L. Adams, Jose Escarce. 2004. Socioeconomic differences in use of preventive services by women enrolled in Medicare+Choice plans. Preventive Medicine 39(4):738-45.

Morales, Leo S., Jeannette Rogowski, Vicki A. Freedman, Steven L. Wickstrom, John L.

Adams, Jose J. Escarce. 2004. Use of preventive services by men enrolled in Medicare+Choice plans. American Journal of Public Health 94(5):796-802.

Rector, Thomas S., Steven L. Wickstrom, Mona Shah, N. Thomas Greenlee, Paula Rheult,

Jeannette Rogowski, Vicki A. Freedman, John L. Adams, Jose Escarce. 2004. Specificity and sensitivity of claims-based algorithms for identifying members of Medicare+Choice health plans that have chronic medical conditions. Health Services Research 39(6):1839-1858.

Freedman, Vicki A., Hakan Aykan, and Morton Kleban. 2003. Asking leading vs. neutral

questions: Implications for functional limitation measurement. Journal of Aging and Health 15(4):661-87.

Freedman, Vicki A., and Hakan Aykan. 2003. Trends in medication use and functioning before

retirement age: are they linked? Health Affairs, July/August 2003:154-162

Agree, Emily and Vicki A. Freedman. 2003. A comparison of assistive technology and personal care in alleviating disability and unmet need. The Gerontologist 43:335-344.

Freedman, Vicki A., Linda G. Martin, and Robert F. Schoeni. 2002. Recent trends in disability

and functioning among older adults in the United States: A systematic review. Journal of the American Medical Association 288(24):3137-3146.

Freedman, Vicki A., Hakan Aykan, and Linda G. Martin. 2002. Another look at aggregate

changes in severe cognitive impairment: further investigation into the cumulative effects of three survey design issues. Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences 57: S126-S131.

Schoeni, Robert F., Vicki A. Freedman, and Robert Wallace. 2002. Late-life disability trajectories

and socioeconomic status. Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics 22.

Schoeni, Robert, F., Vicki A. Freedman, and Robert Wallace. 2001. Persistent, consistent, widespread, and robust? Another look at recent trends in old-age disability. Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences 56B:S206-S218.

Freedman, Vicki A., Hakan Aykan, and Linda G. Martin. 2001. Aggregate changes in severe

cognitive impairment among older Americans: 1993 and 1998. Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences 56B:100-111.

Freedman, Vicki A. and Linda G. Martin. 2000. Contribution of chronic conditions to aggregate

changes in old-age functioning. American Journal of Public Health, 90:1755-1760.


Freedman, Vicki A. 2000. Implications of asking “ambiguous” difficulty questions: An analysis

of the second wave of the Asset and Health Dynamics of the Oldest Old Study. Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences 55B:288-297.

Agree, Emily and Vicki A. Freedman. 2000. Incorporating assistive devices into community-

based long-term care: an analysis of the potential for substitution and supplementation. Journal of Aging and Health 12(3):426-450.

Freedman, Vicki A. and Linda G. Martin. 1999. The role of education in explaining and

forecasting trends in functional limitations among older Americans. Demography 36(4):461-473.

Freedman, Vicki A. 1999. Long-term admissions to home health agencies: A life table analysis.

The Gerontologist 39(1):16-24.

Freedman, Vicki A. and Linda G. Martin. 1998. Understanding trends in functional limitations among older Americans. American Journal of Public Health 88:1457-1462.

Short, Pamela F. and Vicki A. Freedman. 1998. Single women and the dynamics of Medicaid.

Health Services Research 33(5):1309-1336.

Freedman, Vicki A. and James D. Reschovsky. 1997. Differences across payors in charges for agency-based home health services: evidence from the National Home and Hospice Care Survey. Health Services Research 32(4):433-452.

Wolf, Douglas A., Vicki A. Freedman, and Beth J. Soldo. 1997. The division of family labor: care

for elderly parents. Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences 52B:102-109.

Freedman, Vicki A. and Peter Kemper. 1996. Designing home care benefits: the range of options and experience. Journal of Aging and Social Policy 7(3/4):129-148.

Freedman, Vicki A. 1996. Family structure and the risk of nursing home admission. Journals of

Gerontology: Social Sciences 51(2):S61-S69.

Freedman, Vicki A. and Douglas A. Wolf. 1995. A case study on multiple imputation. Demography 32(3):459-470.

Freedman, Vicki A., Lisa F. Berkman, Stephen Rapp, and Adrien Ostfeld. 1994. Family networks:

predictors of nursing home entry. American Journal of Public Health 84:843-845.

Freedman, Vicki A. 1993. Kin and nursing home lengths of stay: A backward recurrence time approach. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 34:138-52.


Tu, Edward Jow-Ching, Vicki A. Freedman, and Douglas A. Wolf. 1993. Kinship and family support in Taiwan: A microsimulation approach. Research on Aging 15:465-486.

Stephen, Elizabeth, Vicki A. Freedman, and Jennifer Hess. 1993. Near and far—Contact of

children with their nonresidential fathers. Journal of Divorce and Remarriage 20(3-4):171-191.

Freedman, Vicki A., Douglas A. Wolf, Beth J. Soldo, and Elizabeth Hervey Stephen. 1991. Intergenerational transfers: A question of perspective. The Gerontologist 31:640-47.

BOOKS, CHAPTERS, AND MONOGRAPHS Sayer, Liana, Vicki A. Freedman, and Suzanne Bianchi. In press. Gender, Time Use, and

Aging. George, Linda G and Kenneth Ferraro (Eds). Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, 8th Edition. New York: Academic Press.

Freedman, Vicki A. 2010. Disability, Functioning, and Aging. Binstock, Robert H. and Linda

K. George (Eds). Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, 7th Edition. New York: Academic Press.

Albert, Steven M. and Vicki A. Freedman. 2010. Public Health and Aging: Maximizing

Functioning and Wellbeing. 2nd edition. Springer Publishing Company. Freedman, Vicki A., Linda G. Martin, Jennifer Cornman, Emily Agree, Robert F. Schoeni.

2008. “Trends in assistance with daily activities: Racial/ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities in the U.S. Older Population Persist,” In Cutler, David and David Wise, (eds.) Health In Older Ages: The Causes and Consequences of Declining Disability Among the Elderly. University of Chicago Press.

Schoeni, Robert, Vicki A. Freedman, Linda G. Martin, Patti Andreski. 2008. Socioeconomic

and demographic disparities in trends in old-age disability." In Cutler, David and David Wise, (eds.) Health In Older Ages: The Causes and Consequences of Declining Disability Among the Elderly. University of Chicago Press.

Institute of Medicine. 2007. The Future of Disability in America. Washington, DC: National

Academies Press. (Committee Member). Freedman, Vicki A. 2007. Demographic reflections on the aging of the baby boom and its

implications for health care. In Warner Schaie and Peter Uhlenberg (Eds). Social Structures and The Impact of Demographic Changes on the Well-being of Older Persons. New York: Springer Publishing Co.

Freedman, Vicki A. 2006. “Late-life disability trends: an overview of current evidence.” In

Field, Marilyn, Alan Jette, and Linda Martin (Eds.) Workshop on Disability in America: A New Look. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.


Freedman, Vicki A., Linda G. Martin, and Robert F. Schoeni. 2004. Population Bulletin:

Disability in America. Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, September 2004. Agree, Emily M. and Vicki A. Freedman. 1999. The implications of population aging for

geriatric health. Gallo, Joseph J. (Ed.). Clinical Aspects of Aging (5th Edition.) Baltimore: Williams & Wilkens. Pp. 659-669.

Freedman, Vicki A. 1999. Family structure and the risk of nursing home admission. In Frolik,

Lawrence (Ed.) Aging and the Law: An Interdisciplinary Reader. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Wolf, Douglas A., Beth J. Soldo and Vicki A. Freedman. 1996. The demography of family care.

In Hareven, Tamara (Ed.). Aging, Generational Relations and the Life Course: A Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective. New York: Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Freedman, Vicki A. and Beth J. Soldo (Eds.). 1994. Forecasting Disability: Workshop Summary.

Convened by the Committee on National Statistics of the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council. October 4-5 1993. Washington DC: National Academy Press.

Soldo, Beth J., and Vicki A. Freedman. 1994. Care of the elderly: the division of labor between

the family, market and state. In Martin, Linda and Preston, Samuel (Eds.) Demography of Aging. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

VIDEO TUTORIALS

Freedman, Vicki A. and Noura Insolera. Aging and Health Content in the PSID. Available at www.psidonline.org. (15:28) January 2014.

Freedman, Vicki A. and Noura Insolera. Intergenerational Transfers in the PSID. Available at

www.psidonline.org (16:14) January 2014. Freedman, Vicki A. and Noura Insolera. The Family Identification Mapping System. Available

at www.psidonline.org (10:27) January 2014. REPORTS Spillman, Brenda C., Jennifer Wolf, Vicki A. Freedman, Judith Kasper. 2014. Informal

Caregiving for Older Americans: An Analysis of the 2011 National Survey of Caregiving. Report to the Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, January 2014

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Kasper, Judith., Vicki A. Freedman, and Brenda C. Spillman. 2014. Disability and Care Needs of Older Americans by Dementia Status: An Analysis of the 2011 National Health and Aging Trends Study. Report to the Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, January 2014.

Freedman, Vicki A., Brenda C. Spillman, Judith Kasper. 2014. Hours of Care in the 2011 &

2012 National Health and Aging Trends Study. NHATS Technical Paper #7. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.

Kasper, Judith D. and Vicki A. Freedman. 2014. National Health and Aging Trends Study

Rounds 1 and 2 User Guide. Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. September 2013 (Beta). January 2014 (Final).

Montaquila, Jill, Vicki A. Freedman, Brenda C. Spillman, and Judith D Kasper. 2013.

National Health and Aging Trends Study Development of Round 2 Survey Weights. NHATS Technical Paper #6. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. Revised January 2014.

Freedman, Vicki A., Patricia Andreski, Katherine McGonagle. The Panel Study of Income

Dynamics Linked Medicare Claims Data. PSID Technical Series Paper #14-01. Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.

Freedman, Vicki A. and Brenda Spillman. 2013. Disability and Care Needs of Older Americans:

An Analysis of the 2011 National Health and Aging Trends Study. Report to the Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, July 2013.

Kasper, Judith D., Vicki A. Freedman, Brenda C. Spillman. NHATS Classification of Persons

with Dementia. Report to the Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, June 2013. NHATS Technical Paper, #5. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. July 2013.

Freedman, Vicki A. 2013. Using HRS’ CAMS as A Resource for Studying Disability. Report

written for the Division of Behavioral and Social Research, National Institute on Aging. Kasper, Judith D., Vicki A. Freedman, and Brenda Spillman. 2013. National Study of Caregiving

User Guide. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. February 2013. Kasper, Judith D. and Vicki A. Freedman. 2012. National Health and Aging Trends Study

Round 1 User Guide: Final Release. Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. November 2012.

Freedman, Vicki A. and Lisa I. Iezzoni. 2012. Aging with a Disability: What We Know and Don’t

Know. Conference Summary prepared for the Administration for Community Living, the


National Institute on Aging, and the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research.

Kasper, Judith, Vicki A. Freedman, and Marlene Niefeld. 2012. Construction of performance-

based summary measures of physical capacity in the National Health and Aging Trends Study. NHATS Technical Paper, #4. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. November 2012.

Montaquila Jill, Freedman Vicki A., Kasper Judith D. 2012. National Health and Aging Trends

Study Round 1 Income Imputation. NHATS Technical Paper #3. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. November 2012.

Montaquila Jill, Freedman Vicki A., Spillman Brenda, & Kasper Judith D. 2012. National

Health and Aging Trends Study Development of Round 1 Survey Weights. NHATS Technical Paper #2. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. November 2012.

Montaquila Jill, Freedman Vicki A., Edwards Brad, Kasper Judith D. 2012. National Health

and Aging Trends Study Round 1 Sample Design and Collection. NHATS Technical Paper #1. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. May 2012.

Kasper, Judith D. and Vicki A. Freedman. 2012. National Health and Aging Trends Study

Round 1 User Guide: Release 1.0. Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. May 2012.

Freedman, Vicki A. and Cornman, Jennifer C. 2012. Panel Study of Income Dynamics

Disability and Use of Time Supplement: User’s Guide. The University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research. March 2012.

Cornman, Jennifer C., Vicki A. Freedman, and Frank Stafford. 2011. Comparing Estimates of

Time Use in the PSID’s Supplement on Disability and Use of Time and the American Time Use Survey. PSID Technical Series Paper #11-01. Updated April 2012.

Brown, Charles C., Brown, Dan, Conley, Dalton, Freedman, Vicki, McGonagle, Kate, Pfeffer,

Fabian, Sastry, Narayan, Schoeni, Robert F. and Stafford, Frank P. 2010. Future Research in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences with the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. American Economic Association, Ten Years and Beyond: Economists Answer NSF's Call for Long-Term Research Agendas. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1888566 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1888566.

Freedman, Vicki A. 2008. Disability, Time Use, and Well-Being Among Middle-Aged and

Older Married Couples. Pretest I Report. The University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research. November 2008.


Freedman, Vicki A, Emily M. Agree. 2008. Home Modifications: Use, Cost, and Interactions with Functioning Among Near-elderly and Older Adults. Report to the Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, October 2008. Available at: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/2008/homemod.pdf


Older Married Couples. Cognitive Testing Report. The University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research. April 2008.

Waidmann, Timothy, Vicki A. Freedman, Christine Himes, and Saad Ahmad. 2008.

Examining the Relationships between Excess Body Weight, Health and Disability. Report to the Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, April 2008.


Older Married Couples. Focus Group Report. The University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research. January 2008.

Waidmann, Timothy and Vicki A. Freedman. 2007. The Daily Activities of the Community-

Dwelling Elderly: Evidence from the American Time Use Survey. Report to the Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, January 2007.

Freedman, Vicki A., Emily M. Agree, Jennifer C. Cornman. 2006. Evaluation of New Measures

of Assistive Technology and the Home Environment from the 2005 Pilot Study of Technology and Aging. Report to the Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, December 2006. Available at: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/2006/newmeas.pdf

Rogowski, Jeannette, Vicki A. Freedman, Robert F. Schoeni. 2006. Neighborhoods and the health

of the elderly: challenges in using national surveys. Report prepared for the Behavioral and Social Research Program, National Institute on Aging, May 2006.

Freedman, Vicki A., Nancy Hodgson, Joanne Lynn, Brenda Spillman, Timothy Waidmann,

Anne Wilkinson and Douglas A. Wolf. 2005. Promoting late-life disability decline: A framework for identifying high-impact interventions. Report prepared for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, August 2005

Freedman, Vicki A., Emily Agree, and Jennifer Cornman. 2005. Development of an assistive

technology and home environment assessment instrument for national surveys: Final report. Part I. Recommended modules and instrument development process. Report prepared for the Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Available at: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/ATEAdevI.pdf


Freedman, Vicki A., Emily Agree, and Lisa Landsberg. 2005. Development of an assistive technology and home environment assessment instrument for national surveys: Final report. Part II. Pilot study results for recommended items. Report prepared for the Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Available at: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/ATEAdevII.pdf

Freedman, Vicki A. and Timothy Waidmann. 2006. Opportunities for improving survey measures

of late-life disability: Workshop overview. Report prepared for the Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Available at: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/2006/survmeasI.pdf

Freedman, Vicki A., Timothy Waidmann, and Brenda Spillman. 2006. Opportunities for

improving survey measures of late-life disability: Part II. Workshop summary. Report prepared for the Department of Health and Human Service’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Available at: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/2006/survmeasII.pdf

Freedman, Vicki A., Maggie Calkins, Robert DeRosier, Kimberly Van Haitsma. 2004. Barriers to

bringing technology into long-term care. Report prepared for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, August 2004.

Freedman, Vicki A. and Hakan Aykan. 2002. The contribution of medication use to recent

trends in old-age functioning. Report prepared for the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services.

REVIEWS AND COMMENTARIES Vicki A. Freedman. 2009. Adopting the ICF Language for Studying Late-life Disability: A

Field of Dreams? Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences. 64(11):1172-4. Iezzoni, Lisa I. and Vicki A. Freedman. 2008. Turning the Disability Tide: The Importance of

Definitions. Journal of the American Medical Association 299(3):332-334. Freedman, Vicki A. and Linda G. Martin. 2006. Commentary: Dissecting disability trends—

concepts, measures, and explanations. International Journal of Epidemiology 35(4); doi:10.1093/ije/dyl153.

Freedman, Vicki A. and Linda G. Martin. 2004. Incorporating disability into population-level

models of health change at older ages. Journals of Gerontology: Medical Sciences 59(6):M602-3.

Freedman, Vicki A. and Linda G. Martin. 2003. Beyond inconsistent results: finding the truth

about trends in late-life cognitive functioning. Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 58B:S347-S348.


Freedman, Vicki A., Linda G. Martin, and Robert F. Schoeni. 2003. Measuring functional status and disability in older adults. Journal of the American Medical Association 289:3239-3240

Freedman, Vicki A. and Linda G. Martin. 2002. Contribution of chronic conditions to aggregate

changes in old-age functioning: the authors respond. American Journal of Public Health 92:7-8. Freedman, Vicki A. and John E. Marcotte. 1993. Book Review: Event History Analysis, by

Kazuo Yamaguchi. Journal of the American Statistical Association 88:1169-1170. TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE REPORTS AND MEMORANDA

Freedman, Vicki A. 2009. Developing a Blueprint for Maximizing Population Functioning: Introduction/Background Document. Prepared for the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Technical Expert Panel on Maximizing Population Functioning.

Freedman, Vicki A. 2004. Implementing a Social Model at the Abramson Center for Jewish Life: A Primer for Key Stakeholders. Prepared for the Abramson Center for Jewish Life (formerly Philadelphia Geriatric Center), Horsham, PA.

Freedman, Vicki A. and Emily M. Agree. 1999. RAND Quick Response: The Importance of Studying Assistive Technology Use by the Elderly. Prepared for the Office of Science and Technology Policy. PM-906-OSTP.

Aykan, Hakan, Vicki A. Freedman, and Linda G. Martin. 1998. Re-weighting the Second

Supplement on Aging to the 1994 National Health Interview Survey for Trend Analyses. RAND Labor and Population Working Paper Series Number DRU-2066-NIA.

Freedman, Vicki A. 1998. Implications of Recent Trends in Disability for the Size of the

Chronically Disabled Older Population. RAND Project Memorandum Prepared for the National Institute on Aging. PM-788-NIA.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Freedman Vicki A. Honoring Suzanne Bianchi. To be presented at the 2014 Perspectives on Time Use in the U.S. Conference and Workshop, College Park, MD, June 23-27, 2014 (Invited).

Freedman, Vicki A., Jennifer C. Cornman, Deborah Carr. 2014. Second Time Around: Second Marriages, Wellbeing and Time Use in Later Life. To be presented at the 2014 Perspectives on Time Use in the U.S. Conference and Workshop, College Park, MD, June 23-27, 2014.

Teno, Joan, Vicki A. Freedman, Judith D. Kasper, Pedro Gozalo, Vincent Mor. Have We Improved the Quality of End of Life Care in the Last Decade? Poster to be presented at the Annual Research Meeting of AcademyHealth, San Diego, CA. June 8-10, 2014.


Mendes de Leon, Carlos and Vicki A. Freedman. Measuring Physical Function and Cognition in a New Household Panel Study. To be presented at workshop on Exploring a New Household Panel Study. June 5-6, Washington DC.

Freedman, Vicki A. 2014. Methodological Developments in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Presented at “Methodological Developments in Household Panel Surveys Seminar,” May 22, 2014, Institute for Social Research, Ann Arbor, MI.

Carr, Deborah, Jennifer Cornman, Vicki A. Freedman. 2014. Does Marital Quality Protect Against Distress? Marital Quality and Momentary Negative Mood in Later Life. Presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, Boston, MA, May 1-3, 2014

Freedman, Vicki A., Douglas A. Wolf, Brenda C. Spillman. 2014. Examining a Trend Over Three Decades in Late-life Disability Prevalence in the U.S. Presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, Boston, MA, May 1-3, 2014.

Bianchi, Suzanne, Vicki A. Freedman, V. Joseph Hotz, Sung Park, Robert Schoeni, Judith Seltzer, Emily Wiemers. Family Rosters and Transfers of Time and Money in the 2013 PSID. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, Boston, MA, May 1-3, 2014.

Freedman, Vicki A., Douglas A. Wolf, Brenda C. Spillman. 2014. Examining a Trend Over Three Decades in Late-life Disability Prevalence in the U.S. Presented at the annual Disability TRENDS meeting, Ann Arbor, MI, March 28, 2014.

Freedman, Vicki A. Introducing the National Health and Aging Trends Study. 2013. Presented at the National Palliative Care Research Center Conference Leveraging the Health and Retirement Study to Advance Palliative Care Research. September 25, 2013, Ann Arbor, MI. (Invited).

Freedman, Vicki A. 2013. The National Health and Aging Trends Study: A new resource for studying disability and independence in older people. Presented at the Seminar in Clinical Epidemiology, University of Michigan. June 6, 2013, Ann Arbor, MI. (Invited).

Freedman, Vicki A. and Brenda Spillman 2013. Residential Care Estimates from the National Health and Aging Trends Study. Presented at the NHATS Early Results Workshop and annual Disability TRENDS Network meeting. April 25-26, 2013. Ann Arbor, MI.

Freedman, Vicki A. 2013. The Late-Life Disability Spectrum: New Estimates of Self Care and Mobility Limitations Among Older Americans. Presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America. New Orleans, LA. April 12, 2013.

Freedman, Vicki A. and Jennifer C. Cornman. 2013. Is Provision of Spousal Care Associated with Wellbeing? New Evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America. April 12, 2013.

Freedman, Vicki A. 2013. Conceptualizing and Measuring Late-Life Disability: An Introduction to NHATS for Clinicians. Presented at the RWJ Clinical Scholars seminar, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, January 16, 2013.


Freedman, Vicki A. 2012. Characterizing Disability and Long-Term Care with the National Health and Aging Trends Study: A First Look. Presented at the annual meeting of Academy Health, Orlando, FL, June 25-27, 2012.

Carr, Deborah, Jennifer C. Cornman, Vicki A. Freedman, and Norbert Schwarz. Happy Couples, Happy Days?: The Impact of Daily Marital Interactions on Global and Experienced Well-Being in Later Life. 2012. Presented at the MiCDA Psychology and Aging Network Meeting, Subjective Wellbeing: New Directions in National Surveys, Evaluated and Experienced Wellbeing in Older Adults, Ann Arbor, MI, June 11, 2012.

Freedman, Vicki A., Frederick Conrad, Jennifer Cornman, Norbert Schwarz, & Frank Stafford. 2012. Does Time Fly When You Are Having Fun? A Day Reconstruction Method Analysis. Presented at the MiCDA Psychology and Aging Network Meeting, Subjective Wellbeing: New Directions in National Surveys, Evaluated and Experienced Wellbeing in Older Adults, Ann Arbor, MI, June 11, 2012.

Freedman, Vicki A. 2012. New Disability Estimates from the National Health and Aging Trends Study. Presented at the annual Disability TRENDS meeting, Ann Arbor, MI, June 1, 2012.

Freedman, Vicki A. 2012. What We Know and What We Need to Know About Aging with a Disability. Part I: social and demographic factors. Presented at Conference on Aging with a Disability: Demographic, Social, and Policy Considerations, Washington, DC, May 17-18, 2012.

Freedman, Vicki A. 2012. Introducing NHATS: A new resource for studying disability trends and trajectories. Presented at the Aging and Public Health graduate seminar, University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI April 2, 2012.

Freedman, Vicki A., Frank Stafford, Norbert Schwarz, Frederick Conrad, Jennifer Cornman. 2011. Disability, Participation and Subjective Wellbeing Among Older Couples. Presented at New Directions in Survey Measurement of Subjective Well Being: Toward Harmonization of HRS and ELSA Measures. October 17-18, 2011, Ann Arbor, MI

Broome, Jessica, Frederick Conrad, Vicki A. Freedman, and Norbert Schwarz. 2011. Interviewer and Respondent Behaviors in a Time Diary Study. Presented at the Panel Study of Income Dynamics-Child Development Supplement Seminar Series, Ann Arbor, MI. November 11, 2011.

Freedman, Vicki A., Frank Stafford, Norbert Schwarz, and Frederick Conrad. 2011. Disability and Subjective Wellbeing Among Older Couples. Presented at International Perspectives on Time Use Conference, University of Maryland, June 23-24, 2011, College Park, MD.

Freedman, Vicki A. Harmonizing Disability Measurement. 2011. Presented at a meeting on harmonization of methods and measures in longitudinal studies, May 2-3, 2011, Los Angeles, CA.

Kasper, Judith D., Brad Edwards, Vicki A. Freedman, Tamara Bruce, Carlos Weiss, Chris Seplaki, Jack Guralnik, Brenda Plassman, Robert Wallace, Michelle Carlson, Marlene


Niefeld. 2010. Advances in Survey Assessment Of Disability in Older Adults: Measuring Physical and Cognitive Capacity in the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS). Presented at the Health Survey Research Methods Conference, April 8-11, 2011, Washington DC.

Freedman, Vicki A., Brenda Spillman, Robert Schoeni, Patti M. Andreski, Jennifer C. Cornman, Eileen M. Crimmins, James Lubitz, Linda G. Martin, Sharon S. Merkin, Teresa E. Seeman, Timothy A. Waidmann. 2010. Reconciling Divergent Evidence on Trends in Old-Age Disability. Presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, March 31-April 2, 2011, Washington DC.

Wolf, Douglas A., Vicki A. Freedman, Emily Agree, Brenda Spillman, Jennifer Cornman, Judy Kasper. 2010. Alternative Measures of Self-Reported Disability. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, March 31-April 2, 2011, Washington DC.

Freedman, Vicki A. 2010. Contributions to the Study of Disability: Highlights from Two Decades of the HRS. Presentation made at the HRS@20’s Health and Retirement Study: The Michigan Difference. October 1, 2010, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Freedman, Vicki A., Frank Stafford, Frederick Conrad, Norbert Schwarz. 2010. Assessing time diary quality: evidence from Disability and Use of Time (DUST), a supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Presented at the International Association for Time Use Research (IATUR), Paris, France, July 7-10, 2010.

Freedman, Vicki A. 2009. Disability Measurement in the National Health and Aging Trends Study. Annual meeting of the American Public Health Assocation. Philadelphia PA, November 9, 2009

Freedman, Vicki A., Frank Stafford, Norbert Schwarz, Frederick Conrad. Measuring Disability, Time Use and Well-being of Older Couples: Lessons from the PSID. Presented at the American Time Use Research Conference, College Park, MD, June 25-26, 2009.

Freedman, Vicki A. 2009. Developing a Blueprint for Maximizing Population Functioning: Introduction/Background Document. Prepared for the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Technical Expert Panel on Maximizing Population Functioning. May 18-19, 2009, Washington DC. (Invited)

Freedman, Vicki A. 2009. Introducing the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS). Presented at the Department of Community Health, Brown University. May 12, 2009, Providence, RI. (Invited).

Freedman, Vicki A, Frank Stafford, Fred Conrad, and Norbert Schwarz. 2008. “Developing measures of time-use to study disability in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics.” Presented at the National Academy of Sciences, Workshop on Improving Measurement of Late-Life Disability in Population Surveys: Going Beyond ADLs and IADLs, Washington, DC, January 8-9, 2009. (Invited).


Kasper, Judy, Vicki A. Freedman, and Graham Kalton. 2008. “Introducing the National Study of Aging and Health. Presented at the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Washington, DC, December 6, 2008. (Invited).

Martin, Linda G., Vicki A. Freedman, Robert F. Schoeni, and Patricia Andreski. 2008. “Baby

Boom Health and Functioning Approaching 60.” Presented at the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Washington, DC, August 7, 2008. (Invited).


Boom Health Approaching 60.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, New Orleans, LA, April 17, 2008.

Schoeni, Robert F., Vicki A. Freedman, and Linda G. Martin. 2008. “Why is late-life disability

declining?” Presented at the RAND Washington Health Seminar Series, February 12, 2008. Freedman, Vicki A., Irina Grafova, Robert F. Schoeni, Jeannette Rogowski. “Neighborhood

Associations with Chronic Condition Prevalence and Onset in Later Life.” Paper presented at the Gerontological Society of America, San Francisco, CA, November 2007.

Johnson, Rucker C., Robert F. Schoeni, Vicki A. Freedman, Jeannette Rogowski.

“Neighborhoods and the Evolution of Health in Mid-to-Late Life.” Paper presented at the Gerontological Society of America, San Francisco, CA, November 2007.


Boom Health Approaching 60.” Paper presented at the third meeting of the TRENDS disability network, Ann Arbor, MI, November 16, 2007.


Boom Health Approaching 60.” Poster presented at the fifth annual conference of the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative, The Future of Human Healthspan: Demography, Evolution, Medicine and Bioengineering, Irvine CA, November 14, 2007.

Grafova, Irina, Vicki A. Freedman, Rizie Kumar, Jeannette Rogowski. “Neighborhood Effects

on Obesity in the Elderly.” Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Washington, DC, November 5-7, 2007.

Freedman, Vicki A., Frank Stafford, Fred Conrad, Norbert Schwarz, Peter Ubel. “Designing a

Time Diary to Study Disability, Time Use, and Well-being Among Older Couples in the Panel Study of Income Dynamics.” Presented at the International Association for Time Use Research. Washington, DC, October 17-19, 2007.


Freedman, Vicki A. "Demography of Aging: Recent and Expected Trends in Active Life Expectancy and Functional Status in Late Life." Webcast tutorial for the Fifth annual conference of the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative, The Future of Human Healthspan: Demography, Evolution, Medicine and Bioengineering, Irvine CA, September 24, 2007, (Invited).

Johnson, Rucker C., Robert F. Schoeni, Vicki A. Freedman, Jeannette Rogowski. “Neighborhoods and the health of elderly Americans.” Presented at the National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute, Boston MA, July 2007.

Freedman, Vicki A., Linda G. Martin, Robert F. Schoeni, and Jennifer Cornman. 2007. Declines

in late-life disability: the role of early and mid-life factors. Presented at the second annual meeting of the TRENDS disability network, Ann Arbor, MI, June 7, 2007.

Freedman, Vicki A., Irina Grafova, Jeannette Rogowski. 2007. “Neighborhoods of Residence and

Disability in Later Life: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study.” Poster presented at the UMDNJ-School of Public Health Research Day, April, 2007.

Freedman, Vicki A., Robert F. Schoeni, Linda G. Martin, Jennifer C. Cornman. 2007. “Chronic

conditions and the decline in late-life disability.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, New York, March 30, 2007.

Freedman, Vicki A., Irina Grafova, Jeannette Rogowski. 2007. “Neighborhoods of Residence and

Disability in Later Life: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study.” Poster presented at the Population Association of America, New York, New York, March 30, 2007.

Freedman, Vicki A and Emily Agree. 2007. “Opportunities to Improve Survey Measures of

Late-Life Disability: Lessons from the Pilot Study of Technology and Aging.” Presented at the Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics, Washington DC, March 26, 2007 (Invited).

Waidmann, Timothy and Vicki A. Freedman. 2007. “Improving Survey Measures of Late-Life

Disability.” Presented at the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, February 21, 2006.

Schoeni, Robert F., Vicki A. Freedman, and Linda G. Martin. 2006. “What is causing the decline

in late-life disability?” Presented at the US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, November 3, 2006 (Invited).

Freedman, Vicki A. 2006. “Trends in Late-Life Disability: Disparities and Causes.” Presented

at the UMDNJ Research Symposium on Aging, Stratford, NJ, November 14th, 2006 (Invited). Freedman, Vicki A. 2006. “Comparing population-level effects of disability interventions.”

Presented at the Workshop on Interventions to Accelerate the Decline in Disability among the


Elderly sponsored by the Committee on Population, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, September 14-15, 2006 (Invited).

Johnson, Rucker C., Vicki A. Freedman, Robert F. Schoeni, Jeannette Rogowski. 2006.

“Neighborhoods and the health of elderly Americans.” Presented at the Principal Investigator meeting of RAND’s Health Disparities Center, May 18, 2006.

Grafova, Irina, Vicki A. Freedman, Rizie Kumar, and Jeannette Rogowski. 2006.

“Neighborhood Effects on Obesity in the Elderly.” UMDNJ-School of Public Health Research Day, April 11, 2006.

Martin, Linda G., Robert F. Schoeni, Vicki A. Freedman, Patricia Andreski. 2006. “Trends in

Self-Assessed Health in Late life.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, Los Angeles, CA, April 2, 2006.

Freedman, Vicki A., Robert F. Schoeni, Linda G. Martin, Jennifer C. Cornman. 2006. “Trends in

late-life psychological distress, treatment, and interference in daily life.” Presented at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University, March 23, 2006 (Invited).

Freedman, Vicki A. and Robert F. Schoeni. 2006. “Current and emerging research questions on

disability, long-term care, and rehabilitation.” Background paper prepared for the Committee on National Statistics, The National Academies for an Expert meeting on the National Long Term Care Survey, February 14, 2006, Washington, DC (Invited).

Freedman, Vicki A. 2005. “The impact of baby boomers on the health care system: another

view. The Impact of Demographic Changes on the Well-being of Older Persons.” Penn State Social Structure Conference, State College, PA, October 9-11, 2005. (Invited discussion).

Freedman, Vicki A. 2005. “Promoting late-life disability decline: A framework for identifying

high-impact interventions.” Symposium. Presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, November 18, Orlando, Florida, November 2005.

Freedman, Vicki A. 2005. “Late-life disability: an overview of trends, disparities, and potential

causes.” Presented at the Institute on Medicine, Committee on Disability in America Workshop, August 1-2, Washington, DC (Invited).

Freedman, Vicki A., Nancy Hodgson, Joanne Lynn, Brenda Spillman, Timothy Waidmann,

Anne Wilkinson and Douglas A. Wolf, 2005. “Promoting late-life disability decline: A framework for identifying high-impact interventions.” Presented by Douglas Wolf at the annual research meeting of Academy Health, June 26-28, Boston, MA (Invited).


Freedman, Vicki A. and Emily M. Agree. 2005. “Linking measures of assistive technology and disability.” Paper presented at Workshop on Improving Survey Measures of Late-Life Disability, May 17, 2005, The Urban Institute, Washington, DC.

Freedman, Vicki A., Linda G. Martin, Jennifer C. Cornman, Emily M. Agree, Robert F.

Schoeni. 2005. ”Trends in Assistance with Daily Activities: Socioeconomic Disparities in the U.S. Older Population.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, April 1, Philadelphia, PA.

Freedman, Vicki A. 2004. “Disability and Assistance Among Older Adults: Trends and

Disparities.” Congressional Research Service, November 22, 2004 (Invited). Freedman, Vicki A. Linda G. Martin, Jennifer C. Cornman, Emily M. Agree, Robert F. Schoeni.

2004. ”Trends in late-life disability and assistance: are socioeconomic and racial gaps widening?” Presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, November 21, Washington DC.

Schoeni, Robert, Vicki A. Freedman, Linda G. Martin, Patti Andreski. 2004. "Socioeconomic

and demographic disparities in trends in old-age disability." Presented at the NBER workshop on Understanding Disability Change and Its Implications, October 8-10, Jackson Hole, Wyoming (Invited).

Linda G. Martin, Vicki A. Freedman, Jennifer C. Cornman, Emily M. Agree, Robert F. Schoeni.

2004. “Late-life Disability and Assistance: Trends and Disparities.” Presented at the NBER workshop on Understanding Disability Change and Its Implications, October 8-10, Jackson Hole, Wyoming (Invited).

Wilson, Barbara F., Barbara Altman, Karen Whitaker, Vicki A. Freedman, Jennifer C.

Cornman, Lisa Landsberg, Emily M. Agree. 2004. “Getting a Grip on Assistive Technology: Cognitive Testing Disability Questions.” NCHS 2004 Data Users Conference. July 12-14, 2004, Washington D.C.

Agree, Emily, Vicki A. Freedman, Jennifer Cornman, and Lisa Landsberg. 2004. “Development

of an assistive technology and home environment assessment instrument for national surveys.” Presented at invitational conference “Removing Bias by Removing Barriers” sponsored by the Interagency Committee on Disability Research, April 15-17, 2004, Washington DC. (Invited)

Cornman, Jennifer, Vicki A. Freedman, and Emily Agree. 2004. "The effect of assistive

technology measurement on late life disability rates." Presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, April 1-3, Boston, MA.

Freedman, Vicki A., Emily Agree, Linda G. Martin, Jennifer. Cornman. 2004. "Trends in the

use of disability and assistance: are they related?" Presented at the NBER workshop on Understanding Disability Change and Its Implications, February 14, Charleston, SC (Invited).


Schoeni, Robert, Vicki A. Freedman, Linda G. Martin, Patti Andreski. 2004. "Disparities in

trends in old-age disability." Presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, April 1-3, Boston, MA and NBER workshop on Understanding Disability Change and Its Implications, February 14, Charleston, SC (Invited).

Wilson, Barbara, Barbara Altman, Karen Whitaker, Vicki A. Freedman, Jennifer Cornman, and

Emily Agree. 2004. "Improving Person-Item Fit: Cognitive Testing Questions about Assistive Technology and the Home Environment with Older Adults." Presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Public Opinion Research, May 15, Phoenix, AZ.

Freedman, Vicki A. 2004. “Trends in Late-Life Health and Disability: Implications for an Aging

America.” Invited Speaker. Managing Transitions in An Aging Society, Widener University. May 10, Chester, PA. (Invited)

Agree, Emily M., Vicki A. Freedman, Jennifer C. Cornman, Douglas A. Wolf, and John E.

Marcotte. 2003. "Reconsidering substitution in long-term care: when does assistive technology take the place of personal care?" Presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, May 1-3, Minneapolis, MN.

Freedman, Vicki A. 2003. "An overview of late-life health and disability trends in the U.S.

IUSSP seminar on increasing longevity: causes, consequences and prospects." Presented at Rockefeller University, October 20-22, New York (Invited).

Freedman, Vicki A., Eileen. Crimmins, Robert F. Schoeni, and colleagues. 2003. "Resolving

inconsistencies in late-life disability trends: report from a technical working group." Presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, May 1-3, Minneapolis, MN.

Freedman, Vicki A. 2002. “Aging in the 21st Century: A demographic challenge for American

Jews.” Presented at the General Assembly of the UJC, November, Philadelphia, PA (Invited) Agree, Emily M., Vicki A. Freedman, Jennifer C. Cornman, Douglas A. Wolf, and John E.

Marcotte. 2002. "Redefining substitution: when do assistive devices take the place of personal care?" Presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, November 23, Boston, MA.

Freedman, Vicki A., Emily Agree, Kathleen Cagney, Marc Cohen, and Jessica Williams. 2002.

"The impact of assistive device use on caregiver time and burden." Presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, November 23, Boston, MA.

Hodgson, Nancy, Vicki A. Freedman, and Douglas Granger. 2002. "Adrenocortical activity and

cognition in response to nursing home relocation." Presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, November 24, Boston, MA.


Hodgson, Nancy, Vicki A. Freedman, and Douglas Granger. 2002. "Physiological responses of

frail older adults to nursing home transfer." Presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, November 13, Philadelphia, PA.

Schoeni, Robert F., Vicki A. Freedman, and Robert Wallace. 2002. "Late-life disability

trajectories and socioeconomic status." Presented at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, November 12, Philadelphia, PA.

Freedman, Vicki A. 2001. “Trends in the health of the older population: Implications for long-

term care insurance.” Presented at the 15th Private Long Term Care Insurance Conference, Miami, FL (Invited).

Agree, Emily, Vicki A. Freedman, and Manisha Sengupta. 2001. "Factors influencing the

balance of assistive technology and personal care among older persons in the community." Presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, November 18, Chicago, IL.

Freedman, Vicki A. and Hakan Aykan. 2001. "Implications of asking leading questions for

estimates of functional limitations." Presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, November 18, Chicago, IL.

Freedman, Vicki A., Nancy A. Hodgson, Kimberly Van Haitsma, Douglas A. Granger, Jonas

Marainen, and Joel Leon. 2001. "Diurnal variation in adrenocortical activity in frail elderly." Presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, November, Chicago, IL .

Freedman, Vicki A. and Hakan Aykan. 2001. “Disability and Care Dynamics of Older

Americans: An Analysis of Symmetry and Displacement.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington, DC.

Agree, Emily and Vicki A. Freedman. 2001. “Alleviating Disability with Assistive Technology:

Mixed Evidence from National Surveys.” Presented at the 2001 annual meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington, DC.

Freedman, Vicki A. 2001. “Changes in Severe Cognitive Impairment Among Older Americans,

1993 and 1998: Preliminary Results from the Asset and Health Dynamics of the Oldest Old and the Health and Retirement Survey." Presented at the National Advisory Council on Aging, Feb 6-7, National Institute on Aging, Washington, DC (Invited).

Wolf, Douglas A, Vicki A. Freedman, John Marcotte and Lori Ploutz-Snyder. 2000. “Panel-data

bias in estimates of demographic rates: Disability dynamics at older ages.” Presented at Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Workshop on Incomplete Data in Event History Analysis, December 7, Baltimore, MD.


Freedman, Vicki A. and Linda G. Martin. 2000. “Understanding improvements in functional

limitations among older Americans.” Presented at Joint conference of The Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, Sweden-OECD, May 29, Stockholm (Invited).

Wolf, Douglas, Vicki A. Freedman, and John E. Marcotte. 2000. “Incorporating Heterogeneity

into Disability Transition Models.” Presented at the annual meeting of REVES, March, Los Angeles.

Freedman, Vicki A., Hakan Aykan, and Linda G. Martin. 2000. “Aggregate Changes in Severe

Cognitive Impairment Among Older Americans: 1993 and 1998.” Presented at the colloquium of the Population Studies Center of the University of Pennsylvania, October 23, Philadelphia, PA (Invited).

Freedman, Vicki A. 1999. Trends in the Health of the Older Population. Presented at

“Unraveling the Health Care Dilemma,” the Kentucky Long-Term Policy Research Center’s 6th annual conference, November 18, Bowling Green (Invited).

Freedman, Vicki A. 1999. “Trends in the Health of the Older Population.” Presented at the Knight

Center for Specialized Journalism, “Longevity: America Ages” October 24-29, College Park, MD (Invited).

Freedman, Vicki A. 1999. “The Contribution of Chronic Conditions to Trends in Old-Age

Functioning.” Presented at the National Conference on Health Statistics, August 2-4, Washington DC.

Freedman, Vicki A. 1999. “Implications of Asking “Ambiguous” Difficulty Questions: An

Analysis of the Second Wave of the Survey of Asset and Health Dynamics.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, March, New York, NY.

Agree, Emily and Vicki A. Freedman. 1999. “Incorporating Assistive Devices into Long Term

Care Arrangements: Analysis of the Second Supplement on Aging.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, November 20-23, Philadelphia PA.

Freedman, Vicki A. 1997. “Trends in Disability Prevalence and Their Causes.” Presented at the

National Disability Statistics and Policy Forum, May 16, 1997, Washington, DC (Invited). Freedman, Vicki A. and Linda G. Martin. 1997. “The Role of Education in Explaining and

Forecasting Trends in Functional Limitations Among Older Americans.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, November 14-17, Cincinnati, OH,

Freedman, Vicki A. and Linda G. Martin. 1997. “Trends in Functional Limitations of Older

Americans.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, March, Washington, DC.


Freedman, Vicki A. and Linda G. Martin. 1997. “Trends in Old-Age Disability.” NIA/RAND

Summer Institute on the Demography, Economics, and Epidemiology of Aging. July 11-13, Santa Monica, CA (Invited).

Freedman, Vicki A. 1996. “Length of Use Patterns for Home Health Agency Admissions.” 1996.

Presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, May 9-11, New Orleans, LA.

Wolf, Douglas A., Vicki A. Freedman, and Beth J. Soldo. 1994. “The division of family labor:

care for elderly parents.” Presented at the “AHEAD Early Results Workshop” sponsored by the University of Michigan, September 21-22. Ann Arbor, MI.

Freedman, Vicki A. 1994. Family structure and nursing home discharge: an analysis of community

return. Presented at the Maxwell School’s Center for Policy Research, May, Syracuse, NY (Invited).

Freedman, Vicki A. 1994. “Does family structure affect the length of non-terminal nursing home

stays?” Presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, May 5-7, Miami, FL.

Marcotte, John E. and Vicki A. Freedman. 1994. “Assessing Dependency Between Observed and

Unobserved Covariates in Duration Models.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Population Association of America, May 5-7, Miami, FL.

Freedman, Vicki A. and Peter Kemper. 1994. “Designing Home Care Programs: A Framework

for Analysis.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, November 19-23, Atlanta, GA.

Freedman, Vicki A. 1993. “Postponing Nursing Home Entry: The role of family structure.

“Presented at the annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, November, New Orleans, LA.

Ongoing Research Support

NIA P01-AG029409 Years 6-10 “Economic Status, Health, & Well-Being over the Life Course

and Across Generations” (PI: Freedman) 12/12-11/17 Role: Program Director, Core Leader, Project Leader; Total Award: $9,444,438

NIA R01-AG040213 “Health, Wealth, and Wellbeing over the Life Course in a Long Panel” (PI:

Freedman) 09/11-08/16 Total Award: $8,533,198 NIA U01-AG032947 “National Study of Disability Trends and Dynamics” (PI: Kasper) 09/08-

8/14; Role: Co-Principal Investigator; Subcontract Award: $616,222; Bridge award $149,727


NIA/DHHS-ASPE U01-AG032947-S1 “National Study of Caregiving (Supplement to NHATS)”

(PI: Kasper) 09/09-8/12; Role: Co-Principal Investigator; Subcontract Award: $119,569 NIA/DHHS-ASPE U01-AG032947-S2 “National Study of Caregiving II Design (Supplement to

NHATS)” (PI: Kasper) 09/13-8/14; Role: Co-Principal Investigator; Subcontract Award: $45,000

NIA R01-AG040635 “Survey Measures of Subjective Well-being: Age, Appraisal, and

Cognition Effects” (PI: Smith) 07/11-06/16; Role: Co-Investigator; Total Award: $2,259,820 NIA P30-AG012846 Year 15-20 “Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging” (PI: Bound)

07/09-06/14 Role: Co-Director (9/12-6/14) Total Award: $4,246,925 Completed Research Support DHHS-ASPE “Disability, Aging, and Long-Term Care Policy and Data Analysis” (PI: Spillman)

09/12-3/14 Role: Co-Investigator; Subcontract Award: $82,874 NIA R01-AG019802 “Health, Wealth, and Pensions over the Life Course in a Long Panel” (PI:

Schoeni) 06/07-05/14 Role: Co-Investigator; Total Award: $7,188,879 NIA R01-AG034455 “A Prospective Model of Medicare Cost Trajectories” (PI: Wolf) 9/09-8/13

Co-Investigator; Subcontract Award: $113,000 NIA R01-AG041348 “Disability, Time Use, and Wellbeing among Older Adults (DUST II)” (PI:

Freedman) 05/12-11/12; Total Award: $622,494 (Year 1 only; replaced by P01-AG029409 Years 6-10)

NIA P30-AG024928 “Roybal Center for Research on Experience and Well-being” (PI: Deaton)

Pilot Grant titled “Verbal Interviewer and Respondent Behaviors that Predict Time Diary Quality” 09/10-8/12; Role: Principal Investigator of Pilot Project; Pilot Award: $83,970

NIA P30-AG012846 Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging: TRENDS Disability

Research Network Project” (PI: Bound) 07/09-09/11; Role: Principal Investigator of Pilot Project; Pilot Award:$47,868.

NIA R01-AG02962 “Prospective Modeling of Functional Pathways: Supplement to End of Life

Trajectories: A Prospective Model” (PI: Wolf) 10/08-08/09; Role: Co-investigator; Subcontract Award: $27,109

NIA P01-AG029409 “Economic Status, Health, & Well-Being over the Life Course and Across

Generations”(PI: Schoeni) 03/07-11/12; Role: Project Leader for Disability and Time Use Among Married Couples (DUST); Project Award for DUST: $2,369,983


NIA R03 AG026110 “Disparities in Assistive Device Use by Older Americans” (PI: Cornman)

09/05-02/07 Role: Co-Principal Investigator; Total Award: $110,000 DHHS-ASPE HHS-100-03-0011 “Exploring the Relationship between Obesity, Disability, and

Health in the Older Population” (PI: Waidmann) 09/05-02/07; Role: Senior Investigator; Subcontract Award: $35,000

DHHS-ASPE HHS-100-03-0011 “Home Modifications: Use, Costs, and Effects on Functioning”

(PI: Waidmann) 09/07-09/08; Role: Co-Principal Investigator; Subcontract Award: $49,247 DHHS-ASPE HHS-100-03-0011 Improving Survey Measures of Late-life Disability”

(PI: Waidmann) 09/04-01/06 Role: Co-Principal Investigator; Subcontract Award: $89,797

NIA R01-AG024058 “Neighborhoods and the Health of Elderly Americans” (PI: Rogowski) 09/03-08/08; Role: Co-Principal Investigator; Total Award: $1,430,000

NIA R01-AG021516-03-S1 “Evaluation of the 2004 National Long Term Care Survey” (PI:

Freedman) 05/03-4/07; Supplement Award: $20,000 NIA R01-AG021516 “Trends in Late-life Health: Disparities and Explanations” (PI: Freedman)

05/03-4/07 ; Total Award: $1,184,229 DHHS-ASPE HHS-100-01-0010 “Lexicon for Technologies in Long-Term Care Settings” (PI:

Van Haitsma) 09/03-08/04; Role: Co-Principal Investigator; Total Award: $450,000 NIA/DHHS-ASPE R01-AG14346-06-S1 “Development of an Assistive Technology and

Environmental Assessment Instrument for National Surveys“ (PI: Freedman) 09/02-07/05; Supplement Award: $350,000

DHHS-ASPE HHS-100-01-0010 “Promoting Decline in Disability: A Framework for Identifying

High Impact Interventions” (PI: Waidmann) 09/03-08/04; Role: Co-Principal Investigator; Total Award: $200,000

AHRQ R01-HS09630 “SES Differences in HMO Utilization by Older Americans” (PI: Escarce)

04/99-03/03; Co-Principal Investigator; Total Award: $1,862,274 NIA R01-AG15135 “Incorporating Technology into Long-Term Care” (PI: Agree) 09/99-08/03;

Role: Co-Principal Investigator; Total Award: $406,363 NIA R01-AG14346-05-S1 “Resolving Discrepancies in Old-Age Disability Trends Across

National Surveys” (PI: Freedman) 08/02-07/03; Supplement Award: $82,550


NIA R01-AG14346-04-S1 “The Contribution of Changes in Medication Use to Improvements in Functioning Among Older Adults” (PI: Freedman) 09/00-3/02; Supplement Award: $125,000

NIA R01-AG14346 “Health and Care Trajectories of Older Americans” (PI: Freedman) 02/98-

07/05; Total Award: $600,000 NIA R03 AG19896 “Physiological Stress and Health Outcomes in a Frail Elderly Population”

(PI: Freedman) 9/01-8/03; Total NIA Award: $85,000; Supplement from Philadelphia Geriatric Center and Penn State University: $60,000.

NIA R03-AG15596 “Explaining Trends in Functioning of Older Americans” (PI: Freedman)

03/98-02/00; Total Award: $85,372 AWARDS AND HONORS

Doody’s Core Title in Public Health (co-authored with Steven Albert), 2013 Article-of-the-Year (co-authored with Pamela Farley Short), Association for Health Services

Research, 1999 NIA Traineeship in Population Epidemiology, 1991-1993 Special Achievement Award, Congressional Research Service, 1988 Distinguished Service Award, Cornell University, 1985 Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

National Institutes of Health Social Sciences and Population Studies Study Section (Member 2008-2012; Ad-hoc

Member, 2006; 2007) Special Emphasis Panel Study Section (Ad-hoc Member, 2005) National Institute on Aging Data Monitoring Committee Member, Second Longitudinal Study on Aging, (1998-1999) Data Monitoring Committee Member, National Long Term Care Survey (2003-2007)

Reviewer, National Institute on Aging Interagency Agreement Concept Review Panels (1997, 2002, 2005) Special Emphasis Review Panels (2003, 2014) NACA Review of Division of Behavioral and Social Research, Subcommittee on

Interventions Research (2008), Subcommittee on Sociology, Social Demography, and Social Epidemiology of Aging (2013)

Consultant (1990-1991, 1996-1997)

Institute of Medicine Committee member, Committee on Disability in America (2005-2007) Panel member, Describing Death in America (2001)


National Academies of Science, National Research Council Nominated for Membership, Committee on Population (2014-2016) Reviewer, Committee on Population (1994; 2002; 2006) Consultant, Committee on National Statistics (1993)

Steering Committee Member, Workshop on Improving Measures of Late-Life Disability (2008-2010)

Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (formerly, Health Care Financing Administration)

Technical Advisory Panel Member, Health Status and Medical Treatment of the Future Elderly (1999-2000)

Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Reviewer (1995) Technical Advisory Panel Member

Alternative Modes of Personal Care Assistance (1995-1998) Long Term Care Claimants (1996-1997) Medicare Home Health Practice Variations (1996) Nursing Home Data Consolidation (DHHS-wide) (1996) Trends in Disability Rates Among the Elderly (1998-1999) Long Term Care Claimant Transitions (2001-2002) Home Modifications and Assistive Technology Policy & Practice Compendium (2004-

2005) The Effect of Reducing Falls on Long-Term Care Expenses: Feasibility and Planning

Study (2005-2012) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (Formerly, Agency for Health Care Policy Research)

Technical Advisory Panel Member, Future Directions for Long-Term Care Health Services Research (1999)

National Center for Health Statistics

Technical Advisory Panel Member Creating Episodes of Care from DHCS surveys (2001) National Home and Hospice Care Survey redesign (2002)

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Evaluation Advisory Group Member, Better Jobs/Better Care, Pennsylvania (2003-2004)

Abramson Center for Jewish Life Chair, Institutional Review Board, 2002-2005 Member, Institutional Review Board, 2000-2002, 2005-2007 University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Public Health, Committee on Committees (2005-2009)


Research Committee (2009) University of Michigan Survey Research Center Senior Staff Advisory Committee (2011-2013) Technical Infrastructure Group (2010-present) Michigan Sample Management System Committee (2012-present) Senate Assembly Research Policies Committee (2013-2016) School of Public Health External Advisory Committee, Interdisciplinary research training on health and

aging (T32 AG027708, Mendes DeLeon, PI) Foundation/Non-profit Reviewing AARP (2004) National Science Foundation Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Home Care Research Initiative United States-Israel Bi-national Science Foundation Journal Reviewing

American Journal of Epidemiology American Journal of Public Health Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Archives of Internal Medicine Australian & New Zealand Journal of Public Health Demography Health Services Research Inquiry JAMA Journal of Aging and Health Journal of Applied Econometrics Journal of the American Geriatric Society Journal of Health Economics Journal of Happiness Journals of Gerontology: Social and Psychological Sciences Journals of Gerontology: Biological and Medical Sciences Medical Care Research on Aging Social Science and Medicine The Gerontologist

Professional Memberships Population Association of America


Selected press items related to research (2008-present) “Just how much are Parents Bailing out their Student-Debt-Addled Kids?” Real Time

Economics, Wall Street Journal, May 2, 2014. (Neil Shah) “Caring for a spouse tied to older women’s wellbeing.” Reuter’s Health. March 11, 2014.

(Kathryn Doyle) “How Seniors Manage to Adapt” New Old Age, New York Times, December 23, 2013. (Judith

Graham) “Two-Thirds of Seniors Need Help with Some Part of Daily Living.” US News & World

Report. December 12, 2013. (Serena Gordon) “Aging U.S. Baby Boomers Face More Disability” Population Reference Bureau Article.

March 2013. (Paola Scommegna) “Disability trends: Oldest old improving, boomers doing worse.” My Science. October 29,

2012. “Middle-Age Americans Less Mobile Than Ever.” Health Day, US News & World Report.

April 7, 2010. “Living in certain neighborhoods increases the chances older men and women will develop

cancer, study finds”. Science Daily. December 10, 2010 “Preventing Falls May Be Key to Avoiding Disability in Elderly” Health Behavior News

Service. November 2008. (Patricia McAdams)

CONTACT INFORMATION

Vicki A. Freedman, Ph.D. Research Professor Institute for Social Research University of Michigan 426 Thompson Street Ann Arbor, MI 48106 Phone: (734) 647-3855 Fax: (734) 936-3809 Email: [email protected]

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Documents

VICKI A. FREEDMAN - isr.umich.edu · Curriculum Vitae . VICKI A. FREEDMAN, Ph.D. May 2014 . CAREER BRIEF Dr. Freedman a is Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research