Julie Zissimopoulos
Biographic Data
| ID | 772850 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julie Zissimopoulos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julie |
| FAMILY NAME | Zissimopoulos |
| SIGNATURE | ZISSIMOPOULOS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Subjective Cognitive Impairment (SCI) and Future Dementia Risk in the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) During 2012–2019
Background Subjective cognitive impairment (SCI), assessed in national surveys, offers potential for dementia monitoring and early detection. However, its causal link to dementia risk remains unclear. Objective To evaluate whether SCI causally affects dementia risk in U.S. older adults (≥65 years), considering mortality as a competing risk. Methods Using data from 1622 dementia-free older adults in the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHAT…
Sex, Race, and Age Differences in Prevalence of Dementia in Medicare Claims and Survey Data
Our results imply that ascertainment of dementia through diagnosis may be improving over time, but gaps across measures among racial/ethnic minorities highlight the need for improved measurement of dementia prevalence in these populations
The Impact of Changes in Population Health and Mortality on Future Prevalence of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias in the United States
We assessed potential benefits for older Americans of reducing risk factors associated with dementia. A dynamic simulation model tracked a national cohort of persons 51 and 52 years of age to project dementia onset and mortality in risk reduction scenarios for diabetes, hypertension, and dementia. We found reducing incidence of diabetes by 50% did not reduce number of years a person ages 51 or 52 lived with dementia and increased the population a…
The Future of Intergenerational Relations in Aging Societies
As the pressure mounts to reduce the public costs of supporting rapidly aging societies, responsibility for supporting elderly people will increasingly fall on their family members. This essay explores the family's capacity to respond to these growing challenges. In particular, we examine how family change and growing inequality pose special problems in developed nations, especially the United States. This essay mentions a series of studies suppo…
Individual & Social Strategies to Mitigate the Risks & Expand Opportunities of an Aging America
Increasing life expectancy offers the potential benefit of additional years of productivity and engagement to both individuals and society as a whole. However, it also carries substantial risks. For many, advanced age brings increased disease and disability (including cognitive impairment), financial insecurity, and social isolation. These risks are greatest for those with the least education and financial resources. An aging society must cope wi…
R etirement and health benefits for M exican migrant workers returning from the U nited S tates
In the absence of a bilateral agreement for the portability and totalization of social security contributions between the United States and Mexico, this article examines the access to pension and health insurance benefits and employment status of older Mexican return migrants. We find that return migrants who have spent less than a year in the United States have a similar level of access to social security benefits as non-migrants. Return migrant…
Is There a Trade-Off Between Caring for Children and Caring for Parents
Given current fertility trends of delayed age at first birth, along with increased life expectancy, more families will likely face parental care decisions while still handling childcare responsibilities. This paper explores whether families who are facing multiple demands for care of both offspring and parents are substituting one type of care for another. More specifically, it asks whether individuals who are engaged in childcare duties to young…
Intervivos Giving Over the Lifecycle
Describes financial transfers made by parents to children and their correlation with donor characteristics such as age, and looks at how transfers reflect changes in marital status, economic status, and health
Employment and self-employment in the wake of Hurricane Katrina
We use data from the monthly Current Population Survey to examine the short- and longer-term effects of Hurricane Katrina on the labor market outcomes of prime-age individuals in the most affected states—Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi— and for evacuees in any state. We focus on rates of labor force participation, employment, and unemployment, and we extend prior research by also examining rates of self-employment. With the exception…
How Longer Work Lives Ease the Crunch of Population Aging
Population aging is not a looming crisis of the future-it is already here. Economic challenges arise when the increase in people surviving to old age and the decline in the number of young people alive to support them cause the growth in society's consumption needs to outpace growth in its productive capacity. The ultimate impact of population aging on our standard of living in the future depends a great deal on how long people choose to work bef…
Transitions to self-employment at older ages: The role of wealth, health, health insurance and other factors
Self-Employment Trends and Patterns Among Older U.S. Workers
Although self-employment is an important labor force phenomenon at older ages, there is a paucity of studies that examine the patterns of self-employment among older U.S. workers. With the leading edge of the baby boom cohort reaching retirement years, the rising rates of self-employment with age suggest that it is important to have a solid understanding of who is self-employed at older ages and how patterns of self-employment may be changing ove…
The Future of Intergenerational Relations in Aging Societies
As the pressure mounts to reduce the public costs of supporting rapidly aging societies, responsibility for supporting elderly people will increasingly fall on their family members. This essay explores the family's capacity to respond to these growing challenges. In particular, we examine how family change and growing inequality pose special problems in developed nations, especially the United States. This essay mentions a series of studies suppo…
R etirement and health benefits for M exican migrant workers returning from the U nited S tates
In the absence of a bilateral agreement for the portability and totalization of social security contributions between the United States and Mexico, this article examines the access to pension and health insurance benefits and employment status of older Mexican return migrants. We find that return migrants who have spent less than a year in the United States have a similar level of access to social security benefits as non-migrants. Return migrant…
The Impact of Changes in Population Health and Mortality on Future Prevalence of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias in the United States
We assessed potential benefits for older Americans of reducing risk factors associated with dementia. A dynamic simulation model tracked a national cohort of persons 51 and 52 years of age to project dementia onset and mortality in risk reduction scenarios for diabetes, hypertension, and dementia. We found reducing incidence of diabetes by 50% did not reduce number of years a person ages 51 or 52 lived with dementia and increased the population a…
Employment and self-employment in the wake of Hurricane Katrina
We use data from the monthly Current Population Survey to examine the short- and longer-term effects of Hurricane Katrina on the labor market outcomes of prime-age individuals in the most affected states—Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi— and for evacuees in any state. We focus on rates of labor force participation, employment, and unemployment, and we extend prior research by also examining rates of self-employment. With the exception…
How Longer Work Lives Ease the Crunch of Population Aging
Population aging is not a looming crisis of the future-it is already here. Economic challenges arise when the increase in people surviving to old age and the decline in the number of young people alive to support them cause the growth in society's consumption needs to outpace growth in its productive capacity. The ultimate impact of population aging on our standard of living in the future depends a great deal on how long people choose to work bef…
Sex, Race, and Age Differences in Prevalence of Dementia in Medicare Claims and Survey Data
Our results imply that ascertainment of dementia through diagnosis may be improving over time, but gaps across measures among racial/ethnic minorities highlight the need for improved measurement of dementia prevalence in these populations
Is There a Trade-Off Between Caring for Children and Caring for Parents
Given current fertility trends of delayed age at first birth, along with increased life expectancy, more families will likely face parental care decisions while still handling childcare responsibilities. This paper explores whether families who are facing multiple demands for care of both offspring and parents are substituting one type of care for another. More specifically, it asks whether individuals who are engaged in childcare duties to young…
Self-Employment Trends and Patterns Among Older U.S. Workers
Although self-employment is an important labor force phenomenon at older ages, there is a paucity of studies that examine the patterns of self-employment among older U.S. workers. With the leading edge of the baby boom cohort reaching retirement years, the rising rates of self-employment with age suggest that it is important to have a solid understanding of who is self-employed at older ages and how patterns of self-employment may be changing ove…
Transitions to self-employment at older ages: The role of wealth, health, health insurance and other factors
Employment and self-employment in the wake of Hurricane Katrina
We use data from the monthly Current Population Survey to examine the short- and longer-term effects of Hurricane Katrina on the labor market outcomes of prime-age individuals in the most affected states—Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi— and for evacuees in any state. We focus on rates of labor force participation, employment, and unemployment, and we extend prior research by also examining rates of self-employment. With the exception…
How Longer Work Lives Ease the Crunch of Population Aging
Population aging is not a looming crisis of the future-it is already here. Economic challenges arise when the increase in people surviving to old age and the decline in the number of young people alive to support them cause the growth in society's consumption needs to outpace growth in its productive capacity. The ultimate impact of population aging on our standard of living in the future depends a great deal on how long people choose to work bef…
Intervivos Giving Over the Lifecycle
Describes financial transfers made by parents to children and their correlation with donor characteristics such as age, and looks at how transfers reflect changes in marital status, economic status, and health
R etirement and health benefits for M exican migrant workers returning from the U nited S tates
In the absence of a bilateral agreement for the portability and totalization of social security contributions between the United States and Mexico, this article examines the access to pension and health insurance benefits and employment status of older Mexican return migrants. We find that return migrants who have spent less than a year in the United States have a similar level of access to social security benefits as non-migrants. Return migrant…
Is There a Trade-Off Between Caring for Children and Caring for Parents
Given current fertility trends of delayed age at first birth, along with increased life expectancy, more families will likely face parental care decisions while still handling childcare responsibilities. This paper explores whether families who are facing multiple demands for care of both offspring and parents are substituting one type of care for another. More specifically, it asks whether individuals who are engaged in childcare duties to young…
The Future of Intergenerational Relations in Aging Societies
As the pressure mounts to reduce the public costs of supporting rapidly aging societies, responsibility for supporting elderly people will increasingly fall on their family members. This essay explores the family's capacity to respond to these growing challenges. In particular, we examine how family change and growing inequality pose special problems in developed nations, especially the United States. This essay mentions a series of studies suppo…
Individual & Social Strategies to Mitigate the Risks & Expand Opportunities of an Aging America
Increasing life expectancy offers the potential benefit of additional years of productivity and engagement to both individuals and society as a whole. However, it also carries substantial risks. For many, advanced age brings increased disease and disability (including cognitive impairment), financial insecurity, and social isolation. These risks are greatest for those with the least education and financial resources. An aging society must cope wi…
The Impact of Changes in Population Health and Mortality on Future Prevalence of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias in the United States
We assessed potential benefits for older Americans of reducing risk factors associated with dementia. A dynamic simulation model tracked a national cohort of persons 51 and 52 years of age to project dementia onset and mortality in risk reduction scenarios for diabetes, hypertension, and dementia. We found reducing incidence of diabetes by 50% did not reduce number of years a person ages 51 or 52 lived with dementia and increased the population a…
Sex, Race, and Age Differences in Prevalence of Dementia in Medicare Claims and Survey Data
Our results imply that ascertainment of dementia through diagnosis may be improving over time, but gaps across measures among racial/ethnic minorities highlight the need for improved measurement of dementia prevalence in these populations
Subjective Cognitive Impairment (SCI) and Future Dementia Risk in the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) During 2012–2019
Background Subjective cognitive impairment (SCI), assessed in national surveys, offers potential for dementia monitoring and early detection. However, its causal link to dementia risk remains unclear. Objective To evaluate whether SCI causally affects dementia risk in U.S. older adults (≥65 years), considering mortality as a competing risk. Methods Using data from 1622 dementia-free older adults in the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHAT…
Economics (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Population (5 works) · Retirement, Disability, and Employment (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Demography (4 works)