Kin Networks and Old-Age Survival During the Demographic Transition

人口转型期间的亲属网络和老年人生存 项目概要/摘要 这是一个K 01奖博士朱莉娅詹宁斯，生物人类学家和人口统计学家在 奥尔巴尼大学、纽约州立大学。詹宁斯博士是一名早期职业调查员， 和衰老。该奖项将为詹宁斯博士提供支持，以完成以下职业生涯 培养目标：（1）成为社会支持，老年学和社会网络分析方面的专家; (2)开展亲属网络与成人死亡率的原创性研究;（3）开展独立研究 职业生涯，并成为R级资金的竞争力。为了实现这些目标，Jennings博士组织了一个 指导团队，包括主要导师梅里尔西尔弗斯坦博士，马乔里康托捐赠教授在 锡拉丘兹大学的老龄化问题专家，国际环境下代际支持和老龄化问题专家， 以及三位共同导师：本杰明·肖博士，健康老龄化社会决定因素的专家，卡尔· 社交网络分析师Rethemeyer和健康、衰老、 和长寿。 亲属关系和社会关系与老年人的长寿有关。该项目将重点关注 亲属网络、亲属的空间位置和老年死亡率的多个测量之间的关联; 经济地位在解释这些关系中的可能作用;以及网络随时间的变化。在目标1中， 博士詹宁斯将使用一个独特的历史数据集，通过60年的观察来研究整个亲属网络， 整个人口。她将解决可能的独立和联合影响的结构和空间 亲属网络的分布，并随着时间和生命历程而变化。在目标2中，詹宁斯博士将研究 使用来自同一国家的现代关联人口普查样本，研究共同居住亲属和生存的影响。目标3将 在老龄化的纵向研究中关注社会网络测量与健康状况之间的关系 同时对目标1-2的数据集和调查结果进行比较。每个目标 将使用先进的定量技术，包括社会网络分析、空间分析和事件历史 分析.这项研究将是R 01应用于亲属网络对死亡率影响的基础， 当代和比较背景将在K奖的最后一年提交。

Kin networks and old-age survival during the demographic transition Project Summary/Abstract This is a K01-award for Dr. Julia Jennings, a biological anthropologist and demographer at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Dr. Jennings is an early-career investigator in kin support and aging. This award will provide Dr. Jennings with the support to accomplish the following career development objectives: (1) to become an expert in social support, gerontology, and social network analysis; (2) to conduct original research on kin networks and adult mortality; (3) develop an independent research career and become competitive for R-level funding. To meet these objectives, Dr. Jennings has assembled a mentoring team that includes primary mentor Dr. Merril Silverstein, Marjorie Cantor Endowed Professor in Aging at Syracuse University and an expert in intergenerational support and aging in international contexts, and three co-mentors: Dr. Benjamin Shaw, an expert in the social determinants of healthy aging, Dr. Karl Rethemeyer, a social network analyst, and Dr. Ken Smith, a specialist on the familial aspects of health, aging, and longevity. Kinship and social ties are associated with longer lives among older adults. This project will focus on the associations among multiple measures of kin networks, the spatial location of kin, and old-age mortality; the possible role of economic status in explaining these relationships; and network change over time. In Aim 1, Dr. Jennings will use a unique historical dataset with 60 years of observation to study whole kin networks for an entire population. She will address possible independent and joint effects of the structure and spatial distribution of kin networks and change over time and the life course. In Aim 2, Dr. Jennings will investigate the effects of co-resident kin and survival using a modern linked census sample from the same country. Aim 3 will focus on the relationship between social network measures and health status in a longitudinal study of aging from the same country while drawing comparisons across the datasets and findings from Aims 1-2. Each aim will use advanced quantitative techniques, including social network analysis, spatial analysis, and event history analysis. This research will be the foundation of a R01 application on the effects on kin networks on mortality in contemporary and comparative contexts to be submitted in the last year of the K-award.