Investigators
Alan M. Garber (Principal Investigator) - Stanford University
Kathryn M. McDonald - Stanford University

The United States and many other nations are experiencing a rapid increase in their elderly populations, prompting questions about future healthcare needs, how to finance care, and the nature of retirement. To address these issues, CDEHA promotes the study of trends in demography, economics, health, and health care, and the effects of these trends on the well-being of the elderly. The center also encourages cross-disciplinary collaborations and recruits promising trainees and junior faculty to conduct research in this area.

Program areas within CDEHA include health disparities; the economics of retirement and demographic change; international population studies; the effects of medical technology on costs, outcomes and well-being of the elderly; and longitudinal and cohort studies of medical care, costs, and health and economic outcomes in the United States and other countries.

CDEHA builds upon and integrates work across multiple programs at Stanford in population studies, health economics, economics of retirement and medical technology assessment; and across multiple disciplines including statistics, econometrics, epidemiology, population biology and demography.

Contact
Moira McKinnon

Funding provided by
• National Institutes of Health