New waves of National Poll on Healthy Aging data available for public use

The National Poll on Healthy Aging publishes its data for free, 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, conducted by IHPI and sponsored by Michigan Medicine and formerly AARP (from 2017 through May 2025), helps inform the public, health care providers, policymakers, and advocates on issues related to health, health care, and health policy affecting adults age 50 and older. 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.

These data waves are the thirteen and fourteenth released by the NPHA since the poll's launch in 2017. Data in Wave 13, which was conducted in August 2023, looks at older adults' experiences with scams, aspirin use, music, weight management, alternative sites of care, and direct-to-consumer care. Fielded in February 2024, the Wave 14 data files cover perspectives from people age 50+ on caregiving, top health concerns, cannabis use, health care costs, and health literacy. 

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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