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2025 HRS December Workshop<o:p></o:p></h1>
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December 8-10, 2025<o:p></o:p></h2>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333">Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques<br>
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Cognition Data in the Health and Retirement Study<o:p></o:p></h2>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333">Cognition Data in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is a 3-day online (Zoom) workshop with a special focus on the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP).
HCAP was designed by the HRS team in consultation with several of its international partner studies to provide a flexible but comparable instrument for measuring cognitive function among older adults in the HRS and in studies around the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333">Content lectures delivered by HRS co-investigators and content area experts will cover:<br>
• Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol protocol administration<br>
• Estimating MCI and dementia prevalence in the US using HCAP<br>
• Measuring cognition in low-income countries<br>
• Gateway to Global Aging HCAP Data<br>
• Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease<br>
• Using HRS core data to create predicted dementia scores<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333">Data labs will focus on best practices for modelling cognitive change over time using linear mixed effects models and best practices for cross-national comparisons
modeling.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333">Students will have the opportunity to present research ideas and receive feedback from the workshop faculty and other students.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333">The course is designed for those with experience using HRS data or for those who have taken the introductory HRS workshop.</span></strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333"><br>
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Cost and Access<o:p></o:p></h2>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333">The cost of the 3-day course is $350. Participants must have access to a laptop or PC.<br>
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Register<o:p></o:p></h2>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333">For more information, or to register, visit the <a href="https://umich.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3af54a1eb653f7c4d39afd9b4&id=5551e33531&e=32bc474d00" target="_blank"><span style="color:#007EA3">Summer
Institute in Survey Research Techniques website</span></a>. Look for the course called Cognition Data in the Health and Retirement Study. <strong><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">Application deadline is Monday, December 1, 2025.</span></strong><br>
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Questions<o:p></o:p></h2>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif;color:#333333">For course related questions, please contact Amanda Sonnega at <a href="mailto:asonnega@umich.edu"><span style="color:#007EA3">asonnega@umich.edu</span></a>. For
questions related to registration, please use the contact form on the Summer Institute page.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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