Esther Friedman, Ph.D.

Dr. Friedman's research focuses on long-term care, including access to and use of home- and community-based services, trends in family care, and the coordination of care among family members and providers. She has a particular interest in the impact of recent Medicaid policies designed to “rebalance” long-term care from institutions to the community and the implications of such policy changes for older and disabled adults' health outcomes, health disparities, and provisions of family care. Other ongoing work explores trends over time and across groups in home care, institutional care, and family care, and uses simulation models to project family care availability for adults with dementia. Dr. Friedman is Associate Director of the Panel Study for Income Dynamics (PSID) and directs the External Innovative Networks in the Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging (MiCDA).

• Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
• M.A., Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
• M.A., Statistics, Columbia University
• B.A., English Literature and Marketing, City University of New York