Zhenmei Zhang

Ning Hsieh, Hui Liu, Zhenmei Zhang.2024." Perceived Discrimination and Incident Dementia Among Older Adults in the United States:  The Buffering Role of Social Relationships." The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Volume 79, Issue 6, June 2024, gbae059, https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbae059 Download PDF

Choi, Seung-won, Zhenmei Zhang and Hui Liu. 2024. “Gender Differences in the Protective Role of Grandparenting in Dementia Risk.” The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 2024;gbae034, https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbae034.  Link to paper

Zhang, Zhenmei, Ning Hsieh and Wen-hua Lai. 2023. “Social Relationships in Later Life: Does Marital Status Matter?” Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 40(9), 2946-2968. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075231163112.  Link to paper

Zhang, Zhenmei, Hui Liu and Yan Zhang. 2022. "Marital Loss and Cognitive Function: Does Timing Matter?" The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. doi:10.1093/geronb/gbac069. Link to paper

Xu, Hongwei, Jinyu Liu, Zhenmei Zhang, and Lydia Li. 2022. "Sandwiched Grandparents and Biological Health Risks in China." Journal of Health and Social Behavior. doi:10.1177/00221465211069895. Download PDF

Liu, Jinyu, Yifan Lou, Lydia Li, Hongwei Xu, and Zhenmei Zhang. 2022. "Dyadic Effects on Depressive Symptoms of Spouse Caregivers and Their Care Recipients: Evidence from China." Aging and Mental Health. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2022.2087212. Link to paper

Sun, Rongjun and Zhenmei Zhang. 2022. "Leisure Activities and Cognitive Impairment in Old Age: The Role of Life Course Socioeconomic Status." Aging and Mental Health. doi:10.1080/13607863.2022.2046694. Link to paper

Li, Lydia, Greta Cheng, Hongwei Xu, Zhenmei Zhang, Jinyu Liu and Yeates Conwell. 2022. "Depression is Associated with Myocardial Infarction Within a Two-Year Period Among Adults in China." Asia- Pacific Journal of Public Health 34(5):516-523. doi: 10.1177/10105395221095331. Download PDF

Zhang, Zhenmei., Hui Liu, & Seung-won Choi. 2021. "Marital Loss and Risk of Dementia: Do Race and Gender Matter?" Social Science & Medicine, 275, 113808. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2021. Download PDF

Sun, Fei, Jaewon Lee, Lina Liu, Zhenmei Zhang. 2021. “Financial Maltreatment of Chinese American Elders: An Inquiry through a Cultural Lens.” Journal of Aging & Social Policy. doi:10.1080/08959420.2021.1914884 Download PDF

Liu, Hui, Zhenmei Zhang and Yan Zhang. 2021. "A National Longitudinal Study of Marital Quality and Cognitive Decline Among Older Men and Women." Social Science & Medicine, 114151, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114151. Download PDF

Choi, Seung-won Emily and Zhenmei Zhang (2021). Caring as Curing: Grandparenting and Depressive Symptoms in China. Social Science & Medicine, 289, 114452. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114452 Download PDF

Hsieh, Ning and Zhenmei Zhang. 2021. “Childlessness and Social Support in Old Age in China.” Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology. 36(2):121-137. doi: 10.1007/s10823-021-09427-x. Download PDF

Seung-won Choi and Zhenmei Zhang. 2021. “Caregiving Grandmothers and Depressive Symptoms in South Korea.” Pp. 123-139 in Aging and the Family: Understanding Changes in Structural and Relationship Dynamics (Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research, Volume 17), edited by Patricia Neff Claster and Sampson Lee Blair. Emerald Publishing Limited. doi:10.1108/S1530-353520210000017007. Download PDF

Yan-Liang Yu and Zhenmei Zhang. 2020. “Relationship Quality and Functional Limitations among Older Adults with Cardiovascular Disease in the United States.” Ageing & Society 40(8):1694-1717. doi:10.1017/S0144686X19000163. Download PDF

Zhenmei Zhang, Hui Liu, and Seung-won Choi. 2020. “Early-life Characteristics, Midlife Socioeconomic Status, and Late-life cognition: Evidence from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study.” Social Science & Medicine Volume, 244, 112575. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112575. Download PDF

Zhang, Zhenmei, Xu, Hongwei, Lydia W. Li, Jinyu Liu, and Seung-won Choi. 2020. “Social Relationships in Early-Life and Episodic Memory in Mid- and Late Life.” The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa179. Download PDF

Liu, Jinyu, Lydia Li, Zhenmei Zhang and Hongwei Xu. 2020. “Intergenerational Coresidence and Depressive Symptoms of Rural and Urban Older Adults in China.” Journal of Family Issues 41(8):1282-1306.doi:10.1177/0192513X19888256. Download PDF

Liu, Hui, Zhenmei Zhang, Seung-won Choi, and Kenneth M Langa. 2020. “Marital Status and Dementia: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study.” The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 75(8): S1873-S1795. doi:10.1093/geronb/gbz087. Download PDF

Liu, Hui, Ning Hsieh, Zhenmei Zhang, Yan Zhang and Kenneth M Langa. 2020. “Same-Sex Couples and Cognitive Impairment: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study.” The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences. 10.1093/geronb/gbaa202. Download PDF

Zhang, Zhenmei and Seung-won Choi. 2019. “Older adults abuse and neglect”. Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging, edited by Danan Gu and Matthew E. Dupre. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_595-1. Download PDF

Zhang, Zhenmei., Lydia Li, Hongwei Xu, and Jinyu Liu. 2019. "Does Widowhood Affect Cognitive Function Among Chinese Older Adults?" Social Science & Medicine – Population Health, 7, 100329. doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.100329. Download PDF

Luo, Ye, Xi Pan, and Zhenmei Zhang. 2019. “Productive Activities and Cognitive Decline among Older Adults in China: Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study.” Social Science and Medicine 229: 96-105. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.09.052. Download PDF

Zhang, Zhenmei, Jinyu Liu, Lydia Li, and Hongwei Xu. 2018. “The Long Arm of Childhood in China: Early-Life Conditions and Cognitive Function Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults.” Journal of Aging and Health 30(8): 1319-1344. Download PDF

Xu, Hongwei, Zhenmei Zhang, Lydia Li, and Jinyu Liu. 2018 “Early-Life Exposure to China’s 1959-61 Famine and Midlife Cognition.” International Journal of Epidemiology 47(1):109-120. Download PDF

Liu, Hui, Zhenmei Zhang, and Seung-won Choi. 2018. “Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases and Cancer in Later Life: The Role of Age at First Marriage.” Geriatrics 3(2): 27. doi:10.3390/geriatrics3020027. Download PDF

Choi, Seung-won and Zhenmei Zhang. 2018. “Grandparenting and Self-rated Health among Korean Older Women.” Research on Aging 40(10):911-932. Download PDF

Zhang, Zhenmei and I-Fen Lin. 2017. “Intergenerational Support Among Widowed Older Adults in China.” International Journal of Population Studies 3(1): 94–109. Download PDF

Yu, Yan-Liang and Zhenmei Zhang. 2017. “Interracial Marriage and Self-Reported Health of Whites and Blacks in the United States.” Population Research and Policy Review 36(6): 851–870. IPUMS Graduate-Student Research Award Download PDF

Zhang, Zhenmei, Hui Liu and Yan-Liang Yu. 2016. “Marital Biography and Health in Middle and Late Life.” Pp. 199-218 in Couple Relationships in the Middle and Later Years: Their Nature, Complexity, and Role in Health and Illness, edited by Jamila Bookwala. Washington, DC. American Psychological Association. Download PDF

Zhang, Zhenmei, Mark D. Hayward, and Yan-Liang Yu. 2016. “Life Course Pathways to Racial Disparities in Cognitive Impairment among Older Americans.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 57(2): 184-199. Download PDF

Xu, Hongwei, Lydia Li, Zhenmei Zhang, and Jinyu Liu. 2016. “Is Natural Experiment a Cure? Re-examining the Long-Term Health Effects of China’s 1959-1961 Famine.” Social Science and Medicine 148:110-122. Download PDF

Li, Lydia, Jinyu Liu, Hongwei Xu, and Zhenmei Zhang. 2016. "Understanding Rural-Urban Differences in Depressive Symptoms among Older Adults in China." Journal of Aging and Health 28(2): 341-362. Download PDF

Liu, Jinyu, Lydia Li, Zhenmei Zhang, and Hongwei Xu. 2016. “Associations between Physical Health and Depressive Symptoms in Chinese Older Adults: Do Neighborhood Resources Matter? Social Science & Medicine – Population Health 2: 531–535. Download PDF

Li, Lydia, Hongwei Xu, Zhenmei Zhang, and Jinyu Liu. 2016. “An Ecological Study of Social Fragmentation, Socioeconomic Deprivation, and Suicide in Rural China: 2008-2010. Social Science & Medicine – Population Health. 2: 365–372. Download PDF

Luo, Ye, Zhenmei Zhang, and Danan Gu. 2015. “Education and Mortality among Older Adults in China.” Social Science and Medicine 127:134-42. Download PDF

Li, Lydia, Jinyu Liu, Zhenmei Zhang, and Hongwei Xu. 2015. “Late-life Depression in Rural China: Do Village Infrastructure and Availability of Community Resources Matter? International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry 30(7):729-36. Download PDF

Zhang, Zhenmei, Danan Gu, and Ye Luo. 2014. “Coresidence with Elderly Parents in Contemporary China: Filial Piety, Parental Investment, and Parental Needs.” Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology 29(3): 259-276. Download PDF

Lynn, Freda B., Barbara Schneider, and Zhenmei Zhang. 2013. “The Changing Relationship between Fertility and Educational Expectations: Adolescents in the 1970s versus the 1980s.” Journal of Family Issues 34: 1147-1174. Download PDF

Liu, Hui and Zhenmei Zhang. 2013. “Disability Trends by Marital Status among Older Americans, 1997-2010: An Examination by Gender and Race.” Population Research and Policy Review 32:103-127. Download PDF

Zhang, Zhenmei. 2013. “Life Expectancy (effects of divorce).” Cultural Sociology of Divorce: An Encyclopedia, edited by Robert E. Emery. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. 

Zhang, Zhenmei, Mark D. Hayward, and Chuntian Lu. 2012. “Is there a Hispanic Epidemiologic Paradox in Later Life? A Closer Look at Chronic Morbidity.” Research on Aging 34 (5):548-571. Download PDF

Zhang, Zhenmei, Connie Page, Tom Conner, and Lori Post. 2012. “Family Members’ Reports of Non-Staff Abuse in Michigan Nursing Homes.” Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect 24: 357-369. Download PDF

Schiamberg, Lawrence, James Oehmke, Zhenmei Zhang, Gia Barboza, Robert Griffore, Levente Von Heydrich, Lori Post, Robin Weatherill, and Teresa Mastin. 2012. “Physical Abuse of Older Adults in Nursing Homes: A Random Sample Survey of Adults with an Elderly Family Member in a Nursing Home.” Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect 24: 65-83. Download PDF

Zhang, Zhenmei, Lawrence Schiamberg, James Oehmke, Gia Barboza, Robert Griffore, Lori Post, Robin Weatherill, and Teresa Mastin. 2011. “Neglect of Older Adults in Michigan Nursing Homes.” Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect 23: 58-74. Download PDF

Schiamberg, Lawrence, Gia Barboza, James Oehmke, Zhenmei Zhang, Robert Griffore, Robin Weatherill, and Lori Post. 2011. “Elder Abuse in Nursing Homes: An Ecological Perspective.” Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect 23: 190-211. Download PDF

Zhang, Zhenmei, Danan Gu, and Mark D. Hayward. 2010. “Childhood Nutritional Deprivation and Cognitive Impairment among Older Chinese.” Social Science and Medicine 71:941-949. Download PDF

Bulanda, Jennifer Roebuck and Zhenmei Zhang. 2009. “Racial-Ethnic Differences in Subjective Survival Expectations for the Retirement Years.” Research on Aging 31:688-709. Download PDF

Gu, Danan, Zhenmei Zhang, and Yi Zeng. 2009. “Access to Healthcare Services Makes a Difference in Healthy Longevity among Older Chinese Adults.” Social Science and Medicine 68: 210-219. Download PDF

Zhang, Zhenmei, Danan Gu, and Mark D. Hayward. 2008. “Early-Life Influences on Cognitive Impairment among Chinese Oldest-Old.” The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences.63: S25-S33. Download PDF

Zhang, Zhenmei and Mark D. Hayward. 2006. “Gender, the Marital Life Course, and Cardiovascular Health in Late Midlife.” Journal of Marriage and Family 68: 639-657. Download PDF

Zhang, Zhenmei. 2006. “Gender Differentials in Cognitive Impairment and Decline of the Oldest Old in China.” The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences.61B: S107-S115. Download PDF

Zhang, Zhenmei. 2006. “Marital History and the Burden of Cardiovascular Disease in Midlife.” The Gerontologist 46: 266-270. Reprinted in Harold Cox (ed.), Annual Editions: Aging. 07/08. Dubuque, IA: McGraw-Hill Companies. Download PDF

Hayward, Mark D., Eileen M. Crimmins, and Zhenmei Zhang. 2006. “Consequences of Educational Change for the Burden of Chronic Health Problems in the Population.” Pp. 227-242 In Riding the Age Waves: Allocating Public and Private Resources across Generations, edited by Anne H. Gauthier, Cyrus Chu, and Shripad Tuljapurkar. New York: Springer. Download PDF

Zhang, Zhenmei and Mark D. Hayward. 2001. “Childlessness and the Psychological Well-Being of Older Persons.” The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences 56(5): S311-320. Download PDF

Hayward, Mark D. and Zhenmei Zhang. 2001. "The Demographic Revolution in Population Aging: A Century of Change, 1950-2050." Pp. 69-85 in the Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, Fifth Edition, edited by Robert K. Binstock and Linda K. George. New York: Academic Press. Download PDF