The 2022 Gerontological Society of America Annual Scientific Meeting, taking place from November 2-6 in Indianapolis, IN., will feature symposia, posters and papers featuring expertise from USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology faculty, postdoctoral and student researchers.
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USC Leonard Davis Researchers Present During 2022 GSA Annual Meeting
November 2, 2022 - November 6, 2022
The USC Leonard Davis School GSA Reception will be taking place on Friday, November 4 at 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM.
Location: Punch Bowl Social Indianapolis, located at 120 S Meridian Street, Indianapolis IN 46225
You can RSVP here to join the reception.
Below is a table listing all presentations from USC Leonard Davis School and other USC schools and departments; for more details and the full conference program, please visit the meeting website.
| Date | Time | Title | Location | Discussant/Chair | First Authors | Co-authors/Other Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, November 2 | 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM ET | C. difficile Infection as a Marker for Dysbiosis is Longitudinally Associated with Cognitive Decline and Dementia | 208 CC | Nicholas V. Resciniti | ||
| Wednesday, November 2 | 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET | Differences in Life Course Pathways to Dementia Incidence for Black and White Older Americans | 209 CC | Mateo Farina | ||
| Wednesday, November 2 | 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET | Discrimination and Coping Among Older Chinese Immigrants During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study | 241 CC | Jiaming Liang | Kexin Yu, Yi-Hsuan Tung, Choi Ha Li, Shinyi Wu, Iris Chi | |
| Wednesday, November 2 | 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET | Empowering Behavior Change to Support Brain Health Among Older Adults | 238 CC | Sarah Lock, Duke Han | Sarah Lock, Laura Mehegan, Arnold Beresh | |
| Wednesday, November 2 | 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET | Lived Experiences of Older Chinese Immigrants in Affordable Housing During the Pandemic: Stress and Resilience | 241 CC | Kexin Yu, Iris Chi, Fei Sun | Kexin Yu, Yi-Hsuan Tung, Jiaming Liang | |
| Wednesday, November 2 | 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET | Older Black Lesbians' Needs and Expectations in Relation to Long-Term Care Facility Use | 208 CC | Meki Singleton | Mary Anne Adams, Tonia Poteat | |
| Wednesday, November 2 | 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET | Review of Technology-Based Interventions Addressing Social Disconnection Among Dementia Caregivers | 210 CC | Weiyu Mao | Xiang Qi, Iris Chi, Bei Wu | |
| Wednesday, November 2 | 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET | Stress and Resilience Across Phases of COVID-19: A Qualitative Study with Older Chinese Immigrants | 241 CC | Yi-Hsuan Tung | Kexin Yu, Jiaming Liang, Shinyi Wu, Iris Chi | |
| Wednesday, November 2 | 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET | Acculturation on Psychological Distress Among Older Korean Americans: Does Ethnic Community Social Capital Matter? | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Juyoung Park | Maria Aranda, Yeon Jin Choi, Yuri Jang | |
| Wednesday, November 2 | 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET | Cross-Cultural Comparison of a Latent Dementia Index in Mexico and the United States | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Joseph Saenz | Christopher Beam | |
| Wednesday, November 2 | 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET | Evaluating T-Cell Age-Related Immune Phenotypes in the Context of Biological Aging in Health and Retirement Study | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Ramya Ramasubramanian | Eric Klopack, Eileen Crimmins, Helen Meier, Sithara Vivek, Jessica Faul, Janko Nikolich-Žugich, Bharat Thyagarajan | |
| Wednesday, November 2 | 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET | Global Elder Abuse: A Mega-Map of Systematic Reviews | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Lilly Estenson | Kelly Marnfeldt, Yongjie Yon, Christopher Mikton, Kathleen Wilber | |
| Wednesday, November 2 | 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET | Investigating the Neural Affects of 17 alpha-estradiol (17α-E2) on APOE4 phenotypes | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Tavia Roache | Christian Pike, Cassandra McGill | |
| Wednesday, November 2 | 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET | Living in Historically Redlined Neighborhoods and Accelerated Biological Aging among Older Adults | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Jennifer Ailshire | Calley Fisk, Chelsey Jones | |
| Wednesday, November 2 | 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET | The Relationship Between Healthcare Stereotype Threat and Advance Care Planning Among Hispanic Patients | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Valeria Cardenas | Aaron Storms, Sindy Lomeli, Carin van Zyl, Susan Enguídanos | |
| Wednesday, November 2 | 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM ET | White matter change near cerebral microbleeds after mTBI involves age and sex dependent cognitive decline | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Andrei Irimia | Van Ngo, Nikhil Chaudhari, Fan Zhang, Shantanu Joshi, Lauren O’Donnell, Nasim Sheikh-Bahaei, Helena Chui | |
| Thursday, November 3 | 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET | Biological Risk Factors for Dementia and Cognitive Function Among Older Indians: Findings from LASIDAD | 233 CC | Qiao Wu | Eileen Crimmins, Mateo Farina, Jung Ki Kim, Xinyao Zhang | |
| Thursday, November 3 | 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET | Associations Between COVID-19 Perceptions and Preventive Behaviors in Dementia Caregiving Dyads | 210 CC | Jiaming Liang | Maria Aranda, Yuri Jang | |
| Thursday, November 3 | 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET | Differences in the Measurement of Cognition for the Assessment of Dementia Across Geographic Contexts | 204 CC | Emma Nichols | Derek Ng, Shabina Hayat, Kenneth Langa, Jinkook Lee, Andrew Steptoe, Jennifer Deal, Alden Gross | |
| Thursday, November 3 | 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET | The COVID-19 Effect: Adapting Family Care to a Pandemic Context | 210 CC | Amanda Leggett, Laura Gitlin | Amanda Leggett, Sheria Robinson-Lane, Sara Masoud, Jiaming Liang | |
| Thursday, November 3 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | A Novel Framework Linking Mnemonic and Hippocampal Integration to Late-Life Reappraisal Efficacy | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Bruna Martins-Klein | Irina Orlovsky, Kristin Heideman | |
| Thursday, November 3 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | Association between Limited English Proficiency and Medicare Enrollment Choice | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Lilly Estenson | Mireille Jacobson | |
| Thursday, November 3 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | Connecting Rural Older Adults with Disabilities to Home Modifications with a Remote Home Assessment | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Emily Nabors | Catia Garell, Jon Pynoos | |
| Thursday, November 3 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | Depressive Symptoms Mediate the Association of Frailty Phenotype Symptoms and Cognition for Females but Not Males | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Nicholas Resciniti | Anwar Merchant, Matthew Lohman | |
| Thursday, November 3 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | Exercise slows neural stem cell aging and AD risk with clonal selection | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Wang Xiang | Lei Peng, Maxwell Bay, Michelle Liu, Jonathan Levi, Tianli Ding, Fifi Pan, Michael Bonaguidi | |
| Thursday, November 3 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | Meaningful Activity Engagement and Well-Being Among Disabled Older Adults: The Moderated Role of Environment | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Yi-Hsuan Tung | Iris Chi, Shinyi Wu, Shiau-Fang Chao | |
| Thursday, November 3 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | Predicted Differences of Epigenetic Age and Dementia Risk Among Different Trajectories of Longitudinal Loneliness | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Morgan Lynch | Christopher Beam | |
| Thursday, November 3 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | Spiritual Resilience? The Role of Religiosity in Buffering the Effect of Neighborhood Disorder on Cognitive Decline | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Haena Lee | Yeon Jin Choi, Jong Hyun Jung | |
| Thursday, November 3 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | The Interplay Between Memory Specificity and Cognitive Inhibition | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Jessie Chien | Teal Eich | |
| Thursday, November 3 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | The Longitudinal Effect of Financial Difficulty on Caregiver Depression | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Susanna Mage | Kathleen Wilber, Donna Benton | |
| Thursday, November 3 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | The Role of Third Places in Reducing Loneliness Among Caregiving Spouses | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Yeon Jin Choi | Jennifer Ailshire | |
| Friday, November 4 | 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET | Causal Analyses of Palliative Care Outcomes Using Observational Data: A Review of Current Literature | 232 CC | Narae Kim | Jingjing Jiang, Melissa Garrido, Mireille Jacobson, David Mockler, Peter May | |
| Friday, November 4 | 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET | Cognitive Aging in Low- and Middle-Income Countries | 210 CC | Yuan Zhang, Joseph Saenz | Joseph Saenz, Mateo Farina, Lindsay Kobayashi, Yuan Zhang | |
| Friday, November 4 | 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET | Direct and Indirect Pathways from Education to Cognitive Functioning Among Older Brazilians | 210 CC | Mateo Farina | ||
| Friday, November 4 | 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET | Food Insecurity Across the Life Course and Cognitive Function Among Older Mexican Adults | 210 CC | Joseph Saenz | Jamie Kessler, Ehlana Nelson | |
| Friday, November 4 | 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET | Healthcare-Seeking Behaviors Among Older Americans with Subjective Cognitive Decline | 234 CC | Seoyoun Kim | Hyun Woo Yoon, Yuri Jang | |
| Friday, November 4 | 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET | Increasing Risk for Elder Mistreatment? A Qualitative Study of Caregiver Experiences During COVID-19 | 240 CC | Kelly Marnfeldt | Lilly H. Estenson, Julia Marinez, Zach Gassoumis, Kathleen Wilber | |
| Friday, November 4 | 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET | Sex Dimorphism in Aging | 205 CC | Bérénice Benayoun | Bérénice Benayoun, Steven Austad, Dena Dubal, Duygu Ucar | |
| Friday, November 4 | 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET | Sex-Dimorphic Regulation of Innate Immunity During Aging | 205 CC | Bérénice Benayoun | ||
| Friday, November 4 | 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET | The Impact of Childhood Adversity on Caregivers' Health | 240 CC | Elizabeth Avent | Jeanine Yonashiro-Cho, Zach Gassoumis | |
| Friday, November 4 | 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET | Best Practices in Communicating About Palliative Care to Patients and Physicians | 203 CC | Alexis Coulourides Kogan | Anna Rahman, Sindy Lomeli, Susan Enguídanos | |
| Friday, November 4 | 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET | Does Race Matter in Health Messaging? Impact of Race Concordance on Palliative Care Knowledge Score | 203 CC | Deborah Hoe | Mutian Zhang, Susan Enguídanos | |
| Friday, November 4 | 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET | If They Build It, They Will Come: Engaging Older African Americans in Education and Research | Sagamore 6-7 CC | Karen Lincoln | ||
| Friday, November 4 | 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET | Social Stressors Associated with Age-Related T Lymphocyte Percentages in Older US Adults: Evidence from the HRS | 232 CC | Eric Klopack, Eileen Crimmins, Steve Cole, Teresa Seeman, Judith Carroll | ||
| Friday, November 4 | 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET | Trends in Risk Factors for Disability and Reduced Physical Functioning Among US Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic | 240 CC | Theresa Andrasfay | Eileen Crimmins | |
| Friday, November 4 | 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET | Affective Trajectories: Risk of Dementia and Underlying Structural Brain Variables in Older Women | 244 CC | Andrew Petkus | Xinhui Wang, Susan Resnick, Daniel Beavers, Mark Espeland, Joshua Millstein, Margaret Gatz, Jiu-Chiuan Chen | |
| Friday, November 4 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | A Scoping Review of How Nursing Home Staffing Levels and Quality of Care Are Measured | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Mutian Zhang | Shelby Brown, Weizhou Tang, Reginald Tucker-Seeley | |
| Friday, November 4 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | Community Typology in Older Korean Americans: Implications for Mental/Cognitive Health | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Nan Sook Park | Yuri Jang, Soondool Chung, David Chiriboga | |
| Friday, November 4 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | Comparing informant based measures of cognitive functioning between the US and Mexico | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Yuan Zhang | Phillip Cantu, Joseph Saenz | |
| Friday, November 4 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | Education and Cognitive Ability: Exploring Direct and Indirect Effects in the United States and Mexico | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Joseph Saenz | Amina Khan | |
| Friday, November 4 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | Interpersonal Dysfunction Predicts Subsequent Financial Exploitation Vulnerability in Older Adults | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Duke Han | Aaron Lim, Laura Mosqueda, Annie Nguyen, Tyler Mason, Gali Weissberger, Laura Fenton, Peter Lichtenberg | |
| Friday, November 4 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | Potential Predictors of Health Literacy in Older Adults | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Stephanie Rubinstein | Gillian Fennell, Elizabeth Zelinski | |
| Friday, November 4 | 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET | Advancing the Implementation Science of Home Modification for Older Adults: An Umbrella Review | 245 CC | Mengzhao Yan | Emily Nabors, Jon Pynoos | |
| Friday, November 4 | 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET | Presidential Symposium: The Intersection of Age and Race: Impact on Reimagining Aging | 120-121 CC | Shannon Jarrott, Karen Lincoln, Becca Levy | Naoko Muramatsu, Ernest Gonzales, Sheria Robinson-Lane, Elizabeth Muñoz | |
| Friday, November 4 | 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET | Programs, Policies, and Services to Facilitate Aging in Place | 245 CC | Mengzhao Yan | ||
| Saturday, November 5 | 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET | Impact of Nonnative English Speaking on Medication Problems and ER Visits Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults | 234 CC | Yujun Zhu | ||
| Saturday, November 5 | 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET | Journal of Gerontology Social Sciences: Featured 2021 Editor’s Choice Articles | 243 CC | Annie Nguyen | ||
| Saturday, November 5 | 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET | Mitochondria: Powerhouse, Slaughterhouse, and Speaker of the House | 205 CC | Changhan Lee | ||
| Saturday, November 5 | 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET | Perceived Types, Causes, and Consequences of Financial Exploitation: Narratives From Older Adults | 243 CC | Anna Nguyen | ||
| Saturday, November 5 | 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET | Reaching the Limit: Centenarians in the Health and Retirement Study | 244 CC | Jennifer Ailshire | ||
| Saturday, November 5 | 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET | Dementia Life Expectancies: New Knowledge and Considerations from the Health and Retirement Study | 204 CC | Joseph Saenz | ||
| Saturday, November 5 | 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET | Mental Health Impact of Discrimination: The Protective Function of Social Capital in Diverse Groups of Older Adults | 203 CC | Mengzhao Yan | Yuri Jang, Kathleen Wilbur | Stacey Schepens Niemiec |
| Saturday, November 5 | 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET | Organochlorine Exposures and Cognitive Function in Older Life: The Role of Race/Ethnicity | 204 CC | Maria Aranda | ||
| Saturday, November 5 | 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM ET | Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Risk and Protective Factors of Dementia: A Lifespan Approach | 204 CC | Maria Aranda | ||
| Saturday, November 5 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | A Latent Class Analysis of Stressors and Resources among Spousal Caregivers to Older Adults in the United States | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Ruotong Liu | Ruotong Liu | Iris Chi, Shinyi Wu |
| Saturday, November 5 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | Aging on the Job? The Association Between Occupational Characteristics and Accelerated Biological Aging | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Theresa Andrasfay | Theresa Andrasfay | Jung Ki Kim, Jennifer Ailshire, Eileen Crimmins |
| Saturday, November 5 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | Building a Protocol for Live Discharge from Hospice: Understanding the Approaches, Challenges, and Opportunities | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Susan Enguidanos | ||
| Saturday, November 5 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | Cross-National Comparisons of Stress and Well-Being in the International Family of Health and Retirement Studies | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Drystan Phillips | ||
| Saturday, November 5 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | Frequent Users of Emergency Medical Services in a Metropolitan City: Individual- and System-Level Considerations | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Beatrice Martinez | Beatrice Martinez | Maria Aranda, Iris Aguilar, Stephen Sanko, William Vega |
| Saturday, November 5 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | Immigration Experiences and Cognitive Trajectories Among Older Chinese Immigrants | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Iris Chi | ||
| Saturday, November 5 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | Impact of a Driving Decision Aid on Decisional Conflict Among Older Adult Drivers and Their Study Partners | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Duke Han | ||
| Saturday, November 5 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | Impacts of Caregiving on Well-Being Among Spousal Caregivers to Older Adults Using Coarsened Exact Matching | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Ruotong Liu | Ruotong Liu | Iris Chi, Shinyi Wu |
| Saturday, November 5 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | Mortality Risk by State-Level Poverty in Colombia at Different Age Groups | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Margarita Osuna | Margarita Osuna | Eileen Crimmins, Jennifer Ailshire |
| Saturday, November 5 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | Predicting Care-Recipients’ Wellbeing Based on Spousal Caregivers’ Co-Occurring Stressors and Resources | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Ruotong Liu | Iris Chi, Shinyi Wu | |
| Saturday, November 5 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | Sensory Processing Correlates with Depression and Perceived Stress in Older Adults | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Erna Blanche | ||
| Saturday, November 5 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | The Mental Health Benefit of Friend Networks in Older Korean Americans: The Conditioning Effect of Family Type | Exhibit Hall DE CC | Yuri Jang | Yuri Jang | Juyoung Park |
| Saturday, November 5 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET | The Relationship Between Physician Visits and Advance Care Planning | Exhibit Hall DE CC | YuHsuan (Olivia) Wang | YuHsuan (Olivia) Wang | Susan Enguidanos |
| Saturday, November 5 | 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM ET | Continued Opioid Use Reduces Perceived Chance of Living to Age 75 Among Young-Old Individuals with Chronic Pain | 232 CC | Gillian Fennell | Gillian Fennell | |
| Saturday, November 5 | 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM ET | Latino Family Caregivers’ Experiences Covering Out-of-Pocket Costs when Caring for Someone Living with Dementia | 208 CC | Susanna Mage | Susanna Mage | Donna Benton, Alexander Gonzalez, Kathleen Wilber, Reginald Tucker-Seeley, Kylie Meyer |
| Saturday, November 5 | 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM ET | Aging in Cross-National Contexts | 211 CC | Jennifer Ailshire | Eunyoung Choi | |
| Saturday, November 5 | 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM ET | Emergency Department: Adult Protective Services Relationship in Response to Elder Mistreatment | 238 CC | Theresa Sivers-Teixeira | ||
| Saturday, November 5 | 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM ET | The Elder Mistreatment Emergency Department Toolkit: Addressing Elder Mistreatment During COVID-19 and Beyond | 238 CC | Theresa Sivers-Teixeira | ||
| Sunday, November 6 | 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET | Associations Between Media Consumption and Ageist Attitudes: A Cross-National Analysis | 211 CC | Erfei Zhao | ||
| Sunday, November 6 | 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET | Neighborhood Adversity and Cognitive Health: The Modifying Role of Self-Perceptions of Aging | 211 CC | Eunyoung Choi | Elizabeth Zelinski, Jennifer Ailshire, Yuri Jang | |
| Sunday, November 6 | 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET | Data-Driven Improvements to Dementia Disease Detection Strategies in an FQHC Setting | 127 CC | Theresa M Sivers-Teixeira | ||
| Sunday, November 6 | 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET | Development of a Frailty Index for People With Dementia in the Health and Retirement Study | 203 CC | Rachel Wilkie | ||
| Sunday, November 6 | 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM ET | Self-Administrated Elder Abuse Intervention for Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment | 210 CC | Laura Mosqueda | ||
| Thursday, November 3 | 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM ET | M. Powell Lawton Award Presentation and Lecture. This session will include the presentation of the 2022 M. Powell Lawton Award to recipient Jon Pynoos, PhD, FGSA, FAGHE, of the University of Southern California. | 120-121 CC | Tiffany Washington | David Roth | |
| Friday, November 4 | 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM | Leonard Davis School of Gerontology Reception | Punch Bowl Social Indianapolis; 120 S Meridian Street, Indianapolis IN 46225 |
