Center for Aging Families

Center for Aging Families

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Center for Aging Families

The Center for Aging Families (CAF) brings together an interdisciplinary community of junior and senior scholars from Bowling Green State University, The Ohio State University, and Purdue University to foster new synergies that generate cutting-edge research on the changing demography of aging families, aging family health, and health disparities in family aging.

Contacts

Susan Brown, BGSU
Sarah Hayford, OSU
Hui Liu, Purdue
Rin Reczek, OSU
agingfamilies@bgsu.edu

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News and Events

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CAF Announces New Funding Opportunities

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Join CAF @PAA2026

Stop and chat with us about aging families and get your CAF swag at booth 208 in the exhibit hall.

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Do Parents Have Favorite Children?

CAF affiliate Jill Suitor in the New York Times

The Center is funded by the National Institute on Aging through a P30 Centers on the Demography and Economics of Aging infrastructure award (P30AG096979).

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Updated: 04/09/2026 02:33PM