NACDA Podcast 4 - Ken Ferraro

In this 25 minute interview, NACDA Director Dr. James McNally talks with Dr. Kenneth Ferraro

• Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director, Center on Aging and the Life Course Purdue University.
• Dr. Ferraro uses a life course framework to examine health inequality, especially racial and ethnic disparities, and the cumulative effects of early exposures on adult health.
• Dr. Ferraro currently studies the influence of life course stressors on cardiovascular health and cognition among Black, White, and Hispanic Americans and the psychosocial resources that mediate the relationships between stressors and the health outcomes.

Dr. Ferraro’s Recent Publications:

• Ferraro, KF. (2018). The Gerontological Imagination: An Integrated Paradigm of Aging. Oxford University Press.

• Ferraro, KF, Schafer, MH, & Wilkinson, LR. (2016). Childhood Disadvantage and Health Problems in Middle and Later Life: Early Imprints on Physical Health? American Sociological Review 81(1):107-133.

• Morton, PM & Ferraro, KF. (2020). Early Social Origins of Biological Risks for Men and Women in Later Life. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 61(4):503–522.

• Kemp, BR & Ferraro, KF. (2021). Are Biological Consequences of Childhood Exposures Detectable in Telomere Length Decades Later? Journal of Gerontology: Biological Sciences 76(1):7-14.