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Emeritus Professor Heather Booth

Position: Emerita Professor
School and/or Centres: School of Demography

Email: heather.booth@anu.edu.au

Researcher profile: https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/booth-h

  • Demography
  • Mortality
  • Stochastic Analysis And Modelling
  • Population Trends And Policies
  • Social Change
  • Family And Household Studies
  • The future of structural population ageing through dynamic stochastic modelling. 
  • Understanding mortality patterns, gaps and transitions through modelling and decomposition.
  • The role of social networks with family and friends in the well-being of older people, and the socio-demography of ageing and longevity.
  • Socio-demographic determinants of self-rated health and well-being at older ages.
  • The future of longevity and mortality at very old ages, and its implications.
  • Microsimulation modelling of disability at older ages.

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