Dr. Patricia Morton's article is named "Editor's Choice" for January 2018!

Professor Patricia Morton's article: "What Do We Mean by Accumulation? Advancing Conceptual Precision for a Core Idea in Gerontology," was named "Editor's Choice" for this month's Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences volume.

Professor Morton will be giving a talk entitled, "The Long Arm of Childhood: How Childhood Shapes Health Outcomes in Later Life," at the Institute of Gerontology, Tuesday, January 30 from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.

The talk will be held at the Freer House, second floor, Hoobler Room, located at 71 E. Ferry St, Detroit 48202. The talk is open to students, faculty, and professors with an interest in aging.

Professor Morton's research focuses on understanding health inequality throughout the life course with a research focus on how childhood conditions produce unequal opportunities and constraints that impact health through multiple life domains and has been published in top academic journals including Demography, Social Science & Medicine, and the Journals of Gerontology.