The National Poll on Healthy Aging publishes its data for public use on an ongoing basis to help advance research on aging.
The National Poll on Healthy Aging publishes its data for public use on an ongoing basis to help advance research on aging.
The University of Michigan National Poll on Healthy Aging (NPHA) publishes its data for public use on an ongoing basis to help advance research on aging. A new wave of National Poll on Healthy Aging data is now available for download at the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA).
The National Poll on Healthy Aging, which is conducted by IHPI and sponsored by AARP and Michigan Medicine, helps inform the public, health care providers, policymakers, and advocates on issues related to health, health care, and health policy affecting adults age 50 to 80. The poll is designed as a recurring, nationally representative household survey of U.S. adults, which allows the assessment of issues in a timely fashion.
This data wave is the ninth released by the NPHA since the poll's launch in 2017. Fielded in August 2021, Wave 9 data covers a variety of topics, including older adults' perspectives on elective surgery decisions, using health apps, joys and stresses, travel planning, and COVID boosters. NPHA reports using these data are Decision-Making About Elective Surgery, Mobile Health App Use Among Older Adults, Joy and Stress During the COVID-19 Pandemic, and Planning for Health Care Needs Before Traveling. A related poll extra, or news stories that go beyond the data summarized in NPHA poll reports, explored which older adults planned to receive flu shots and COVID boosters in fall 2021.
The NPHA data is published on NACDA's Open Aging Repository, a free self-publishing option for gerontological researchers to share their research projects. The repository was created for the immediate distribution of data on aging populations.
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