Hui (Cathy) Liu
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Contact Information Email: liu3839@purdue.edu Office: MSEE 308B Map Phone: 765-496-6045 Homepage: Homepage |
Director, Center on Aging and the Life Course Professor of Sociology  Google Scholar Listing  View Vita
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Pillars of Interdisciplinary Research Excellence
Social Contexts and Policy for Optimal Aging; Preserving Cognitive Function
Education
PhD The University of Texas at Austin 2008
Research Interests
Population health and mortality, family and marriage, bio-demography of aging and the life course, social relationships, LGBTQ+ population, gender and race-ethnicity, demography of sexuality, quantitative methodology
Grants
2024 - University of Texas at Austin Center on Aging and Population Sciences Pilot Program
2023 - Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - National Institutes of Health
Selected Publications
Liu, Hui, Juwen Wang, and Wencheng Zhang. 2025. "Spousal Education and Memory Decline: Evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing." The Gerontologist.
Niino, Kerri, Molly A. Patapoff, Brent T. Mausbach, Hui Liu, Alison A. Moore, Benjamin H. Han, Barton W. Palmer, and Dylan J. Jester. 2025. "Development of Loneliness and Social Isolation After Spousal Loss: A Systematic Review of Longitudinal Studies on Widowhood." Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 73(1): 253-265
Liu, Hui, Callie Jo Zaborenko, and Wencheng Zhang. 2024. "Online Engagement and Loneliness Among Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Examination of Gender Differences." Population Research and Policy Review 44:77. DOI: 10.1007/s11113-024-09923-1
Garcia, Michael, Belinda Needham, Bridget Goosby, Robert Hummer, Hui Liu, and Debra Umberson. 2024. "Death of a Parent, Racial Inequities, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Early to Mid- Adulthood." Journal of Health and Social Behavior. DOI: 10.1177/00221465241273870
Zhang, Yan and Hui Liu. 2024. "Parent-Child Relationship Quality and Older Parents' Cognitive Trajectories." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 41(12): 3861-3884.
Hsieh, Ning, Deirdre Shires, Hui Liu, Sam Safford, and Kryssia Campos-Selva. 2024. "Unequal Access to Primary Care Providers at the Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Sexual Orientation, and Gender." Population Research and Policy Review 43(4): 1-12.
Wang, Yiwen and Hui Liu. 2024. "A National Longitudinal Study of Same-Sex Partnership and Self-Rated Health Trajectories." Annals of LGBTQ Public and Population Health 5(4).
Hsieh, Ning, Hui Liu, and Zhenmei Zhang. 2024. "Perceived Discrimination and Incident Dementia among Older Adults in the U.S.: The Buffering Role of Social Relationships." Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences. DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbae059.
Choi, Seung-won, Zhenmei Zhang, Hui Liu. 2024. "Gender Differences in the Protective Role of Grandparenting in Dementia Risk." Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences. DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbae034.
Liu, Hui, William J. Chopik, M Rosie Shrout, and Juwen Wang. 2024. "A National Longitudinal Dyadic Analysis of Spousal Education and Cognitive Decline in the United States." Social Science & Medicine 343: 116603.