scholarly journals Involvement in State and Federal Aging Policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 684-684
Author(s):  
Erica Solway
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Aging ◽  
National Level ◽  
Project Manager ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Senior Project ◽  
Aging Policy ◽  
National Poll ◽  
The University ◽  
Associate Director

Abstract The fourth speaker is Dr. Erica Solway. Dr. Solway will discuss her experience working in policy at the federal level as a Health and Aging Policy Fellow and a policy advisor with the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging and in her current involvement in policy-relevant research at the state and national level at the University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy & Innovation. Dr. Solway is a senior project manager forthe evaluation of the Healthy Michigan Plan, Michigan’s Medicaid expansion program, and is also an associate director of the University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging.

scholarly journals Educational Attainment and Self-Rated Oral Health among American Older Adults: Hispanics’ Diminished Returns

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shervin Assari ◽  
Mohsen Bazargan
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Oral Health ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Healthy Aging ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Single Item ◽  
National Poll ◽  
The Us ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The University

Background: Minorities’ diminished returns (MDRs) refer to systemically weaker effects of socioeconomic status (SES), particularly educational attainment, on the health of non-Whites compared to Whites. Aim: Using a nationally representative sample, we aimed to investigate ethnic differences in the effect of SES (educational attainment) on the self-rated oral health of Hispanic older adults in the US. Methods: This study analyzed the University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging (UM-NPHA) 2017 data, which included 2131 older adults who were 50 to 80 years old (202 Hispanics and 1929 non-Hispanics). Ethnicity, race, educational attainment (SES), age, gender, employment, retirement, and self-rated oral health (single item) were measured. Logistic regressions were applied for data analysis. Results: High educational attainment was associated with lower odds of poor oral health in the pooled sample, net of all covariates. The effect of educational attainment on poor self-rated oral health was found to be weaker for Hispanics than for non-Hispanics. Conclusion: We observed MDRs of educational attainment (SES) on oral health for Hispanic older adults. In other words, compared to non-Hispanics, Hispanics gain less oral health from their educational attainment (SES).

scholarly journals Update on Polling and Policy Efforts on Loneliness, Telehealth, Caregiving, and Advance Care Planning

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 178-178
Author(s):  
Erica Solway ◽  
Brian Lindberg
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Advance Care Planning ◽  
Healthy Aging ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Care Planning ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
National Poll ◽  
Advance Care ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The University

Abstract Older adults and their caregivers experienced dramatic changes in many aspects of their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic which resulted in important shifts in organizational and federal priorities and policies. To explore older adults’ changing experiences and perspectives amidst the pandemic, the University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging (NPHA), a recurring, nationally representative household survey, polled over 2,000 adults age 50-80 at multiple timepoints through January 2021 about their feelings of loneliness and use of telehealth. In June 2020, the NPHA also surveyed adults age 50-80 about advance care planning before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and asked family caregivers about their care challenges in the three months since the pandemic. This session will start with a presentation of results from these polls, first exploring change over time in loneliness and telehealth use and then focusing on experiences related to advance care planning and caregiving challenges. Next, presenters from diverse national coalitions and organizations, including the Coalition to End Social Isolation and Loneliness, the National Academy for State Health Policy, the National Alliance for Caregiving, and the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care will describe their organizations’ efforts, including their work with research and advocacy partners, state and federal agencies, and the Biden administration to facilitate dialogue and advance activities and policies related to these timely topics.

scholarly journals LONELINESS AND HEALTH AMONG OLDER ADULTS: RESULTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN NATIONAL POLL ON HEALTHY AGING

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S600-S601
Author(s):  
Erica Solway ◽  
John Piette ◽  
Matthias Kirch ◽  
Dianne Singer ◽  
Jeffrey Kullgren ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Healthy Aging ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Healthy Behaviors ◽  
National Poll ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The University

Abstract In October 2018, the University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging conducted an online survey using a nationally representative household sample of adults age 50 to 80. One in three respondents (34%) reported feeling a lack of companionship and 27% reported feeling isolated from others some of the time or often during the past year. Those with fair or poor self-reported physical health, mental health, or hearing were more likely to report feeling a lack of companionship or feel isolated as were those who reported less frequently engaging in healthy behaviors. More than one in four (28%) reported social contact with people outside of their household once a week or less. Given the high prevalence of loneliness and its connection to poor health and health behaviors, research on this important issue and efforts to increase social engagement among older adults deserve increased attention.

scholarly journals Findings on Loneliness, Telehealth, and Advance Care Planning From the National Poll on Healthy Aging

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 178-178
Author(s):  
Matthias Kirch ◽  
Dianne Singer ◽  
Jeffrey Kullgren ◽  
Cheryl Lampkin ◽  
Teresa Keenan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Aging ◽  
Health Care Policy ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Power Of Attorney ◽  
Care Policy ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
National Poll ◽  
Advance Care ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
The University

Abstract The University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging (NPHA) taps into the perspectives of older adults to inform health care policy and practice using a nationally representative sample of more than 2,000 adults age 50-80. Questions about lack of companionship and feelings of loneliness were tracked over three time points; 34% expressed feelings of loneliness in October 2018, 41% in June 2020, and 37% in January 2021. The NPHA also found that use of telehealth increased from 4% in May 2019 to 30% in June 2020 to 43% in January 2021. Finally, the NPHA found that 37% have completed both medical durable power of attorney and advance directive with 7% completing at least one of these documents in the first three months of the COVID-19 pandemic. These poll results can be used to inform actions by coalitions and organizations to advance state and federal policy.

scholarly journals Gordon Newkirk’s Contributions to Coronal Studies

1989 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 503-512
Author(s):  
J. A. Eddy
Keyword(s):  
Solar Physics ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
International Astronomical Union ◽  
University Of Colorado ◽  
International Astronomical ◽  
American Astronomical Society ◽  
Signal Corps ◽  
The University ◽  
Associate Director

Gordon Allen Newkirk, Jr. was born in West Orange, New Jersey June 12, 1928 and died in Boulder, Colorado December 21, 1985 at age 57. He was graduated from Harvard University in 1950 and in 1953 earned a Ph.D. in astrophysics from the University of Michigan. In 1955, after service in the Signal Corps of the U.S. Army he took a position at the High Altitude Observatory in 3oulder where he worked the remaining thirty years of his life. For 11 of those years (1968-1979) he was director of the observatory and associate director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He was also active as a teacher and from 1965 through 1985 was an adjoint professor at the University of Colorado. From 1972 through 1975 he served as Chairman of the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society and from 1976 through 1979 as President of Commission 10 (Solar Activity) of the International Astronomical Union.

Performance, Theatre Training, and Research

1996 ◽  
Vol 12 (47) ◽  
pp. 207-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Russell Brown
Keyword(s):  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Theatre Arts ◽  
National Theatre ◽  
Present Experience ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Training And Research ◽  
Theatre Studies ◽  
Founder Member ◽  
The University ◽  
Associate Director

John Russell Brown, who was a founder member and first Head of the University of Birmingham's Department of Drama and Theatre Arts, and subsequently an Associate Director of the National Theatre in London, here responds to the article by NTQ co-editor Clive Barker in our May 1995 issue, ‘What Training – for What Theatre’, taking as further text an editorial by Richard Schechner in the Summer 1995 issue of TDR. Currently, as a Professor of Theatre at the University of Michigan, John Russell Brown is teaching a production-based undergraduate acting course, and is also an advisor for Theatre Studies at the University of Singapore and a consultant to the School of Drama at Middlesex University. He draws upon this wide range of past and present experience to explore the issues raised by Barker and Schechner – and to suggest some possible ways forward.

scholarly journals HEALTH INSURANCE AND HEALTH CARE DECISION-MAKING FOR ADULTS IN THE PRE-MEDICARE YEARS: FINDINGS FROM NATIONAL SURVEYS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S11-S12
Author(s):  
Erica Solway ◽  
Renuka Tipirneni ◽  
Erica Solway
Keyword(s):  
Internal Medicine ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Healthy Aging ◽  
Health Care Policy ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Care Utilization ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
The University

Abstract As more Americans approach retirement age and eligibility for Medicare coverage, many face difficult decisions about their health insurance and health care. This session explores how adults age 50-64 are navigating these choices following implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), presenting data from two nationally representative surveys: The University of Michigan’s National Poll on Healthy Aging (NPHA) and the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Erica Solway, Associate Director of the NPHA, will begin by presenting background information about the NPHA and an overview of critical health policy issues for adults age 50-64. Jamie Luster, Research Area Specialist at the University of Michigan, will then provide NPHA findings linking concerns about health insurance affordability with delayed/forgone health care. Next, Aaron Scherer, Associate of Internal Medicine at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, will discuss NPHA findings on factors associated with adults’ concern about affordability of health insurance in retirement but before Medicare eligibility begins at age 65. Finally, Renuka Tipirneni, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan, will present findings based on the HRS on changes in health care utilization for adults age 55-64 since implementation of the ACA’s Medicaid expansion. To conclude, Erica Solway will discuss current federal health care policy proposals for adults age 50-64, including the recent introduction of the Medicare at 50 bill, and how the perspectives and experiences of adults in this age group can help inform those policies.

Representing Sexuality in Shakespeare's Plays

1997 ◽  
Vol 13 (51) ◽  
pp. 205-213
Author(s):  
John Russell Brown
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Modern Drama ◽  
National Theatre ◽  
The University ◽  
Associate Director

Sexuality resides in much more than what is spoken or even enacted, and its stage representation will often work best when the minds of the spectators are collaboratively engaged in completing the desired response. John Russell Brown, founding Head of Drama at the University of Birmingham and a former Associate Director of the National Theatre, here explores Shakespeare's arts of sexual obliquity, whether in silence, prevarication, or kindled imagination, and their relationship both with more direct forms of allusion and with an audience's response. John Russell Brown, currently Professor of Theatre at the University of Michigan, is author of numerous books on Shakespeare and modern drama, and editor of many Elizabethan and Jacobean texts – most recently a new edition of Shakespeare for Applause Books, New York.

Novae in the Magellanic Clouds

1979 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 96-101
Author(s):  
J.A. Graham
Keyword(s):  
Large Magellanic Cloud ◽  
Magellanic Cloud ◽  
Magellanic Clouds ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
The Past ◽  
Spectroscopic Information ◽  
Objective Prism ◽  
The University ◽  
Small Cloud ◽  
Low Dispersion

During the past several years, a systematic search for novae in the Magellanic Clouds has been carried out at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. The Curtis Schmidt telescope, on loan to CTIO from the University of Michigan is used to obtain plates every two weeks during the observing season. An objective prism is used on the telescope. This provides additional low-dispersion spectroscopic information when a nova is discovered. The plates cover an area of 5°x5°. One plate is sufficient to cover the Small Magellanic Cloud and four are taken of the Large Magellanic Cloud with an overlap so that the central bar is included on each plate. The methods used in the search have been described by Graham and Araya (1971). In the CTIO survey, 8 novae have been discovered in the Large Cloud but none in the Small Cloud. The survey was not carried out in 1974 or 1976. During 1974, one nova was discovered in the Small Cloud by MacConnell and Sanduleak (1974).

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