Eileen M. Crimmins

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ISBN 978-0-470-84397-0) which addressed "the important question of whether or not we are exchanging longer life for poorer health." The book was based on the research of REVES (Network on Health Expectancy). Most recently, she has co-edited two volumes on aging, Longer Life and Healthy Aging and Human Longevity, Individual Life Duration, and the Growth of the Oldest-old Population (both published by Springer in 2006).

Her work has also been important in clarifying how health differentials in the population arise, and change with age. [8] Crimmins has been a pioneer in the use of the healthy life expectancy approach defined by disease or risk factor states. [9] [10] For instance, men have a higher prevalence of heart disease than women, which comes from their earlier rates of onset of heart disease; however, looking at life cycles of men and women, the length of time spent with heart disease is longer for women. [11]

Other work has shown that women’s longer life with cognitive impairment comes largely from their longer life rather than from more cognitive loss at a given age. [12] Work on race and education differences in life expectancy has emphasized a life cycle approach to health differentials; the earlier “aging” of the disadvantaged occurs through the earlier onset of health conditions among persons of lower SES leading to shorter lives and fewer healthy years. [13] The same approach has been applied to risk factors to show how obesity is related to lower active life expectancy among older people 70, but not to total life expectancy. [14]

References

  1. "Eileen M Crimmins, TRENDS Scholar". Archived from the original on 2007-07-29. Retrieved 2007-05-15.
  2. Communications, USC Leonard Davis (November 21, 2022). "Uncovering the Secrets of SuperAgers".
  3. "National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected". Archived from the original on 2016-05-06. Retrieved 2016-05-05.
  4. Crimmins, Eileen; Mark D. Hayward; Yasuhiko Saito (February 1994). "Changing Mortality and Morbidity Rates and the Health Status and Life Expectancy of the Older Population". Demography. 31 (1): 159–175. doi: 10.2307/2061913 . JSTOR   2061913. PMID   8005340. S2CID   207356863.
  5. Information on years of promotions are taken both from the subject's c.v. (http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~crimmin/cv.pdf Archived 2007-05-04 at the Wayback Machine ) and the U.S.C. Aging Nexus (http://www.usc.edu/projects/nexus/faculty/dept-ldsg/crimminseileen/CrimminsBio.pdf Archived 2007-02-03 at the Wayback Machine )
  6. "Editorial Board". Biodemography & Social Biology.
  7. Surinder K. Mehta, review in The Annals of the American Academy, 20.2 (1987), p. 210
  8. Bakalar, Nicholas (2010-12-27). "Aging: Paying the Physical Price for Longer Life". New York Times. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
  9. Boffey, Philip M. (1983-05-31). "LONGER LIVES SEEN AS THREAT TO NATION'S BUDGET". New York Times. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
  10. Daniel Callahan; Sherwin B. Nuland (2011-05-19). "The Quagmire: How American medicine is destroying itself". The New Republic. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
  11. Crimmins, Eileen; M.D. Hayward; H.Ueda; Y. Saito; J.K. Kim (2008). "Life With and Without Heart Disease among Women and Men over 50". Journal of Women & Aging. 20 (1–2): 5–19. doi:10.1300/j074v20n01_02. PMC   2994551 . PMID   18581697.
  12. Suthers, K; Kim, JK; Crimmins, E (May 2003). "Life expectancy with cognitive impairment in the older population of the United States". The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. 58 (3): S179-86. doi: 10.1093/geronb/58.3.s179 . PMID   12730319.
  13. Crimmins, Eileen; Mark D. Hayward; Aaron Hagedorn; Yasuhiko Saito; Nicolas Brouard (2009). "Change in Disability-Free Life Expectancy for Americans 70 Years Old and Over". Demography. 40 (3): 627–646. doi:10.1353/dem.0.0070. PMC   2831348 . PMID   19771948.
  14. Reynolds, Sandra L.; Yasuhiko Saito; Eileen Crimmins (2005). "The Impact of Obesity on Active Life Expectancy in Older American Men and Women". The Gerontologist. 45 (4): 438–444. doi: 10.1093/geront/45.4.438 . PMID   16051906.
Eileen M. Crimmins
Academic background
EducationPh.D. in Demography
Alma mater University of Pennsylvania