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PhD Candidate, Demographer, Sociologist.

Publications

The Caribbean American Dementia and Aging Study: Protocol for a Population-Based Study of Older Adult Health and Dementia in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico

Published in BMC Geriatrics, 2025

CADAS is a multi-purpose household study of aging focused on the life course determinants and consequences of health and dementia in Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and Cuba.

Recommended citation: Liu MM, Llibre-Guerra J, Soria C, Li J, Zayas Llerena T, Rodriguez G, Acosta D, Jiménez Velázquez I, Llibre-Rodriguez JJ, Dow WH. The Caribbean American Dementia and Aging Study: protocol for a population-based study of older adult health and dementia in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. BMC Geriatr. 2025;25(1). doi:10.1186/s12877-025-06131-0 https://bmcgeriatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12877-025-06131-0

Assessing the 10/66 Dementia Classification Algorithm for International Comparative Analyses with the U.S.

Published in American Journal of Epidemiology, 2025

Cross-national comparisons of dementia prevalence are essential for identifying unique determinants and cultural-specific risk factors, but methodological differences in dementia classification across countries hinder global comparisons. This study maps the 10/66 algorithm for dementia classification, widely used and validated in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), to the U.S. Aging, Demographics, and Memory Study (ADAMS), the dementia sub-study of the Health and Retirement Study, and assesses its performance in ADAMS.

Recommended citation: Jorge J Llibre Guerra, Jordan Weiss, Jing Li, Chris Soria, Ana Rodriguez-Salgado, Juan de Jesús Llibre Rodriguez, Ivonne Z Jiménez Velázquez, Daisy Acosta, Mao-Mei Liu, William H Dow, Assessing the 10/66 Dementia Classification Algorithm for International Comparative Analyses with the U.S., American Journal of Epidemiology, 2024;, kwae470, https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwae470 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39745806/

Commentary: Examining Contextual Factors Contributing to Differentials in COVID-19 Mortality in U.S. vs. India

Published in Frontiers in Public Health, 2022

This commentary examines the disparities in COVID-19 mortality rates between the U.S. and India, exploring demographic dynamics and contextual factors contributing to the “Indian death paradox.”

Recommended citation: Zanwar PP, Wallace KL, Soria C, Perianayagam A. Commentary: Examining contextual factors contributing to differentials in COVID-19 mortality in U.S. vs. India. Front Public Health. 2022;10:995751. doi:10.3389/fpubh.2022.995751 https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.995751/full

Connecting Fathers: Fathers’ Impact on Adult Children’s Social Networks

Published in The International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2022

This paper is was written while I was an undergraduate and published during my first year of graduate school.

Recommended citation: Soria C, Lawton L. Connecting Fathers: Fathers’ Impact on Adult Children’s Social Networks. The International Journal of Aging and Human Development. 2023;96(1):19-32. doi:10.1177/00914150221106645 hhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00914150221106645