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Sun F, Zimmer Z, Zajacova A. Pain and Disability Transitions Among Older Americans: The Role of Education. J Pain. 2023 Jun;24(6):1009-1019. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2023.01.014. Epub 2023 Jan 24. PubMed PMID: 36706888; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10257745.
Sun F, Zimmer Z, Zajacova A. Educational Differences in Life Expectancies With and Without Pain. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2023 Apr 1;78(4):695-704. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbac169. PubMed PMID: 36242782; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10066743.
Teerawichitchainan B, Zimmer Z, Low TQY, Toan TK. Respiratory Health Among Older Adults in Vietnam: Does Earlier-Life Military Role and War Exposure Matter?. J Aging Health. 2023 Mar;35(3-4):168-181. doi: 10.1177/08982643221118445. Epub 2022 Aug 8. PubMed PMID: 35941715.
Sun R, Zimmer Z. Is Transition in Living Arrangements Associated With Older Adults' Life Satisfaction When Preference Is Considered?. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2022 Dec 29;77(12):2296-2305. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbac099. PubMed PMID: 35868632.
Zimmer Z. War exposure: an under-appreciated determinant of population health in Asia. Asian Population Studies.. 2022 November; 18(3):207.
Zimmer Z, Fraser K, Grol-Prokopczyk H, Zajacova A. A global study of pain prevalence across 52 countries: examining the role of country-level contextual factors. Pain. 2022 Sep 1;163(9):1740-1750. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002557. Epub 2021 Dec 15. PubMed PMID: 35027516; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9198107.
Zimmer Z, Korinek K, Young Y, Teerawichitchainan B, Toan TK. Early-Life War Exposure and Later-Life Frailty Among Older Adults in Vietnam: Does War Hasten Aging?. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2022 Sep 1;77(9):1674-1685. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbab190. PubMed PMID: 34637517; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9757073.
Libby G, Zimmer Z, Kingston A, Haviva C, Chiu CT, Ofstedal MB, Saito Y, Jagger C. Are Religiosity and Spirituality Related to Self-Reported Health Expectancy? An Analysis of the European Values Survey. J Relig Health. 2022 Jun;61(3):2590-2604. doi: 10.1007/s10943-021-01348-w. Epub 2021 Jul 20. PubMed PMID: 34283368; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9142421.
Zimmer Z, Penboon B, Jampaklay A. Location and Provision of Support from Migrants to Left-behind Parents in Rural Cambodia. J Cross Cult Gerontol. 2022 Mar;37(1):23-43. doi: 10.1007/s10823-021-09447-7. Epub 2022 Jan 15. PubMed PMID: 35031901.
Zajacova A, Grol-Prokopczyk H, Zimmer Z. Sociology of Chronic Pain. J Health Soc Behav. 2021 Sep;62(3):302-317. doi: 10.1177/00221465211025962. Epub 2021 Jul 20. PubMed PMID: 34283649; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8956223.
Zimmer Z, Saito Y, Theou O, Haviva C, Rockwood K. Education, wealth, and duration of life expected in various degrees of frailty. Eur J Ageing. 2021 Sep;18(3):393-404. doi: 10.1007/s10433-020-00587-2. eCollection 2021 Sep. PubMed PMID: 34483803; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8377115.
Zimmer Z, Fraser K, Korinek K, Akbulut-Yuksel M, Young YM, Toan TK. War across the life course: examining the impact of exposure to conflict on a comprehensive inventory of health measures in an aging Vietnamese population. Int J Epidemiol. 2021 Jul 9;50(3):866-879. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyaa247. PubMed PMID: 33395485; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8530162.
Zajacova A, Grol-Prokopczyk H, Zimmer Z. Pain Trends Among American Adults, 2002-2018: Patterns, Disparities, and Correlates. Demography. 2021 Apr 1;58(2):711-738. doi: 10.1215/00703370-8977691. PubMed PMID: 33834222; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8035485.
Zimmer Z, Chiu CT. Are Older Persons in China Living More Years in an Independent Living Arrangement? Estimates Using Multistate Life Tables. Demography. 2021 Apr 1;58(2):739-762. doi: 10.1215/00703370-8996307. PubMed PMID: 33834226.
Zimmer Z, Zajacova A, Grol-Prokopczyk H. Trends in Pain Prevalence among Adults Aged 50 and Older across Europe, 2004 to 2015. J Aging Health. 2020 Dec;32(10):1419-1432. doi: 10.1177/0898264320931665. Epub 2020 Jun 25. PubMed PMID: 32583713.
Korinek K, Young Y, Teerawichitchainan B, Kim Chuc NT, Kovnick M, Zimmer Z. Is war hard on the heart? Gender, wartime stress and late life cardiovascular conditions in a population of Vietnamese older adults. Soc Sci Med. 2020 Nov;265:113380. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113380. Epub 2020 Sep 19. PubMed PMID: 33096339; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8114945.
Bó B, Zimmer Z, Rada C. The Structure and Determinants of Intergenerational Support Exchange Flows in an Eastern European Setting. Res Aging. 2020 Oct-Dec;42(9-10):262-271. doi: 10.1177/0164027520920026. Epub 2020 Apr 21. PubMed PMID: 32314654.
Hou C, Lin Y, Zimmer Z, Fang X. The association of healthy behaviors with cognitive health expectancy in Chinese older adults: a population-based cohort study. Aging (Albany NY). 2020 Sep 9;12(17):16999-17021. doi: 10.18632/aging.103617. Epub 2020 Sep 9. PubMed PMID: 32903212; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7521482.
Zimmer Z, Chiu CT, Saito Y, Jagger C, Ofstedal MB, Lin YH. Religiosity Dimensions and Disability-Free Life Expectancy in Taiwan. J Aging Health. 2020 Aug-Sep;32(7-8):627-641. doi: 10.1177/0898264319843445. Epub 2019 Apr 25. PubMed PMID: 31018747.
Zimmer Z, Treleaven E. The Rise and Prominence of Skip‐Generation Households in Lower‐ and Middle‐Income Countries. Population and Development Review. 2020 July; 46(4):709.
Zimmer Z, Chiu CT, Saito Y, Lin YH, Ofstedal MB, Jagger C. Does Religious Activity Distinguish the Mortality Experiences of Older Taiwanese? An Analysis Using Eighteen Years of Follow-Up Data. J Relig Health. 2020 Feb;59(1):289-308. doi: 10.1007/s10943-019-00778-x. PubMed PMID: 30778793.
Zimmer Z, Zajacova A. Persistent, Consistent, and Extensive: The Trend of Increasing Pain Prevalence in Older Americans. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2020 Jan 14;75(2):436-447. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbx162. PubMed PMID: 29579314.
Korinek K, Teerawichitchainan B, Zimmer Z, Brindle E, Nguyen TKC, Nguyen HM, Tran KT. Design and measurement in a study of war exposure, health, and aging: protocol for the Vietnam health and aging study. BMC Public Health. 2019 Oct 23;19(1):1351. doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-7680-6. PubMed PMID: 31646987; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6806496.
Ofstedal MB, Chiu CT, Jagger C, Saito Y, Zimmer Z. Religion, Life Expectancy, and Disability-Free Life Expectancy Among Older Women and Men in the United States. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2019 Oct 4;74(8):e107-e118. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gby098. PubMed PMID: 31585014; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6941211.
Penboon B, Jampaklay A, Vapattanawong P, Zimmer Z. Migration and absent fathers: Impacts on the mental health of left-behind family members in Thailand. SAGE Journals. 2019 September.
Zimmer Z, Rojo F, Ofstedal MB, Chiu CT, Saito Y, Jagger C. Religiosity and health: A global comparative study. SSM Popul Health. 2019 Apr;7:006-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.11.006. eCollection 2019 Apr. PubMed PMID: 30581957; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6293091.
Chen F, Lin Z, Bao L, Zimmer Z, Gultiano S, B Borja J. Time-use Profiles, Chronic Role Overload, and Women's Body Weight Trajectories from Middle to Later Life in the Philippines. J Health Soc Behav. 2019 Mar;60(1):119-136. doi: 10.1177/0022146519827612. Epub 2019 Feb 6. PubMed PMID: 30724626; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7451413.
Van Natta M, Zimmer Z. What’s in a word? Language and self-assessed health in the U.S. International Journal of Population Stuides.. 2019; 5(1):1-12.
Chen F, Bao L, Lin Z, Zimmer Z, Gultiano S, Borja JB. Double burden for women in mid- and later life: evidence from time-use profiles in Cebu, the Philippines. Ageing Soc. 2018 Nov;38(11):2325-2355. doi: 10.1017/S0144686X17000599. Epub 2017 Jul 10. PubMed PMID: 31231145; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6587579.
Zimmer Z, Van Natta M. Migration, household composition and economic well-being of households in rural Cambodia with a focus on left-behind parents and children of migrants. Asian Population Studies. 2018 September; 14(3):271.
Zimmer Z, Bao L, Mayol NL, Chen F, Perez TLL, Duazo PL. Functional limitation trajectories and their determinants among women in the Philippines. Demogr Res. 2017 Jan-Jun;36:863-892. doi: 10.4054/DemRes.2017.36.30. Epub 2017 Mar 21. PubMed PMID: 30467456; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6245607.
Martin LG, Zimmer Z, Lee J. Foundations of Activity of Daily Living Trajectories of Older Americans. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2017 Jan;72(1):129-139. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbv074. Epub 2015 Sep 2. PubMed PMID: 26333820; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5156486.
Zimmer Z, Jagger C, Chiu CT, Ofstedal MB, Rojo F, Saito Y. Spirituality, religiosity, aging and health in global perspective: A review. SSM Popul Health. 2016 Dec;2:373-381. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2016.04.009. eCollection 2016 Dec. Review. PubMed PMID: 29349154; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5758000.
Zimmer Z, Hanson HA, Smith KR. Offspring Socioeconomic Status and Parent Mortality Within a Historical Population. Demography. 2016 Oct;53(5):1583-1603. doi: 10.1007/s13524-016-0502-x. PubMed PMID: 27664009; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5086077.
Zimmer Z, Rubin S. Life Expectancy With and Without Pain in the U.S. Elderly Population. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2016 Sep;71(9):1171-6. doi: 10.1093/gerona/glw028. Epub 2016 Mar 17. PubMed PMID: 26988661; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4978363.
Zimmer Z, Hanson HA, Smith KR. Childhood socioeconomic status, adult socioeconomic status, and old-age health trajectories: Connecting early, middle, and late life. Demographic research. 2016; 34(10):285-320. doi: DOI: 10:4054/DemRes.2016.34.10.
Hanson HA, Smith KR, Zimmer Z. Reproductive History and Later-Life Comorbidity Trajectories: A Medicare-Linked Cohort Study From the Utah Population Database. Demography. 2015 Dec;52(6):2021-49. doi: 10.1007/s13524-015-0439-5. PubMed PMID: 26527471; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4655204.
Rubin S, Zimmer Z. Pain and self-assessed health: does the association vary by age?. Soc Sci Med. 2015 Apr;130:259-67. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.02.024. Epub 2015 Feb 18. PubMed PMID: 25734611.
Zimmer Z, Hidajat M, Saito Y. Changes in total and disability-free life expectancy among older adults in China: Do they portend a compression of morbidity?. International Journal of Population Studies. 2015; 1(1):4-18. doi: 10.18063/IJPS.2015.01.001.
Das S, Zimmer Z. Living arrangements and wealth among skip generation households across the globe. International Journal of Sociology and the Family. 2015; 41(2):95-116.
Zimmer Z, Das S. The poorest of the poor: composition and wealth of older person households in sub-Saharan Africa. Res Aging. 2014 May;36(3):271-96. doi: 10.1177/0164027513484589. Epub 2013 Apr 15. PubMed PMID: 25650994.
Zimmer Z, Fang X, Tang Z. Fifteen-year disability trends among older persons in the Beijing municipality of China. J Aging Health. 2014 Mar;26(2):207-30. doi: 10.1177/0898264313513609. Epub 2013 Dec 10. PubMed PMID: 24336232.
Zimmer Z, Martin LG, Jones BL, Nagin DS. Examining late-life functional limitation trajectories and their associations with underlying onset, recovery, and mortality. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2014 Mar;69(2):275-86. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbt099. PubMed PMID: 24531526; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3968861.
Zimmer Z, Rada C, Stoica CA. Migration, location and provision of support to older parents: The case of Romania. International Journal of Population Ageing. 2014; 7(3):161-184. doi: 10.1007/s12062-014-9101-z..
Knodel J, Zimmer Z. Gender and well-being of older persons in Cambodia. In: Devasahayam T, editor. Gender and Ageing: Southeast Asian Perspectives. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies; 2014. p.68-98.
Hidajat M, Zimmer Z, Saito Y, Lin HS. Religious activity, life expectancy, and disability-free life expectancy in Taiwan. Eur J Ageing. 2013 Sep;10(3):229-236. doi: 10.1007/s10433-013-0273-9. eCollection 2013 Sep. PubMed PMID: 28804298; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5549130.
Quashi N, Zimmer Z. Residential proximity of nearest child and older adults’ receipts of informal support transfers in Barbados. Ageing and Society. 2013 February; 33(2):320-341. doi: 10.1017/S0144686X1100122X.
Zimmer Z, Knodel J. Older age parents in rural Cambodia and migration of adult children: A case study of two communes in Battambang provinc. Asian population studies. 2013; 9(2):156-174. doi: 10.1080/17441730.2013.797297.
Zimmer Z, McDaniel S. Global ageing in the twenty-first century: An introduction. In: McDaniel S, Zimmer Z, editors. Global ageing in the twenty-first century Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing; 2013. Chapter Introduction; p.1-12.
Li Y, Zimmer Z. Child and Adolescent Obesity and Employment Sector in Urban China. Asian Popul Stud. 2013 Jan 1;9(3). doi: 10.1080/17441730.2013.807597. PubMed PMID: 24298293; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3843518.
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