Kimberly Rollings
University of Michigan, MI·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Many older Americans struggle to keep a safe, affordable and stable home. Housing insecurity, meaning limited access to affordable, stable, safe and adequate housing and neighborhoods, is rising fastest among older adults.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Social Science
- Topics
housing insecurity
housing assistance
affordable housing
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Aug 2030
What they work on
- Build typologies of life course housing histories, combining housing assistance and multiple dimensions of housing insecurity, for midlife and older adults using longitudinal Panel Study of Income Dynamics data.
- Test how health and disability trajectories in midlife and older age relate to earlier histories of housing assistance and housing insecurity, especially during emerging adulthood, using longitudinal and latent variable models.
- Assess whether the links between housing history types and later health and disability trajectories differ by neighborhood context.
More about the research
About one-third of them spend more than 30% or even 50% of their income on housing. Housing insecurity is linked to chronic disease, disability and earlier death. Federal housing assistance is linked to better health, but it reaches only about one-third of income-eligible, cost-burdened adults aged 50 and older. A key open question is whether housing problems or help in early adulthood shape health decades later.
Why it matters
Low-income older adults increasingly face housing costs that strain their budgets and health, and assistance programs reach only a fraction of those eligible. Showing for whom, how and when housing assistance and housing insecurity matter most for later health and disability could guide when and how housing programs intervene. It could also strengthen the case for expanding assistance to older adults.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Safiyyah Okoye
Drexel University, PA·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Characterize housing disrepair, such as roof, wall, heating or plumbing problems, among U.S. older adults, and test its links to functional disability in low-income older adults.
Laura B Zahodne
University of Michigan, MI·Psychology
Follow MCAP participants for a third assessment and expand the cohort, then use latent growth curve modeling to test whether neighborhood socioeconomic status predicts differences in cognitive decline between Black and White older adults.
Alyssa Goldman
Boston College, MA·Social Science·Early-career
Estimate how personal social networks and social activities like volunteering change during the final five years of life, using growth curve models on National Health and Aging Trends Study data.
The school
University of Michigan: 124 labs on PI Pages, $2.1B a year on research, 963 research doctorates a year.
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