Principal Investigators: Leif Jensen
Project description: The Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health (INRPHA) and Aging is an NIA-funded project that facilitates innovative research on the multilevel and multidimensional exposures shaping and being shaped by health and aging trends among different rural populations and regions in the United States. INRPHA has five key priority areas which are to identify (1) trends and disparities in middle-age and older adult health and well-being across different types of rural areas and among different vulnerable populations within rural areas and identify mechanisms driving these trends and disparities; (2) the implications (e.g., social, economic, political, and infrastructural) of population health and aging trends in rural areas; (3) relationships between economic livelihood strategies, economic well-being, and health among middle- and older-age adults in rural America; (4) the contributions of physical and/or social isolation on physical, mental, and cognitive health and healthy aging in different rural areas; and (5) where and how exposures to environmental change and/or climate hazards have affected rural middle-age and older populations.
To learn more, please visit the project website: https://sites.psu.edu/inrpha/
