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Abhijit Visaria

Principal Research Scientist

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Abhijit is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Ageing Research and Education. His research on ageing includes studying psychological resilience, social networks and social support, healthy life expectancy, use of technology, and work and retirement, using CARE’s quantitative data. Abhijit contributed to developing the questionnaire for wave 2 of THE SIGNS Study and coordinated its data collection in 2019. Abhijit is a Co-Principal Investigator on the NRF-funded Future Health Technologies project on “Early detection of health risks: Prevention of falls and fracture” during 2020-2025, and a Co-Investigator on the NMRC-funded Healthy Longevity Catalyst Award on “Towards Personalization: Identifying Life-History Patterns of Loneliness as the Basis for Effective Early Interventions” during 2021-2022. He is a Council Member of the Population Association of Singapore for 2022-2025. 

Abhijit received his Ph.D. and M.A in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining CARE in 2017, Abhijit was a postdoctoral fellow at the Asia Research Institute jointly with the Centre for Family and Population Research at National University of Singapore. Abhijit’s professional background has included being a consultant with the World Bank during 2014-15, and working with the Social Initiatives Group, ICICI Bank, Mumbai from 2004 to 2008 on supporting state-civil society partnerships and developing resource centres on maternal and child health and elementary education, across India. 

 

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PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

 

  1. Visaria, Abhijit, Rahul Malhotra, June May-Ling Lee, and Angelique Chan. Enhancing Psychological Resilience at the Cusp of Older Ages: The Role of Social Networks. Ageing and Society. Available online: December 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X2100180X

     

  2. Aithal, Seema Koteshwar^, Abhijit Visaria^, and Rahul Malhotra^. Prevalence and correlates of insufficient physical activity and high sedentary behaviour among older adults in Singapore. Journal of Ageing and Physical Activity. Available online: February 2022. (^Equal contribution authors.) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1123/japa.2021-0324

     

  3. Phua June, Abhijit Visaria, Truls Østbye, and Rahul Malhotra. 2022. Association of Vision and Hearing Impairments with Quality of Life: Mediation by Psychosocial Factors. Geriatrics and Gerontology International, 22: 56-62. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ggi.14318

     

  4. Lai, Wei Xuan, Abhijit Visaria, Truls Østbye, and Rahul Malhotra. Prevalence and correlates of digital technology adoption for managing hypertension among older adults. Journal of Human Hypertension. Available online: February 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41371-022-00654-4

     

  5. Yoon, Sungwon, Pei Shan Hoe, Angelique Chan, Rahul Malhotra, Abhijit Visaria, et al. Impact of COVID-19 on perceived wellbeing, self-management and views of novel modalities of care among medically vulnerable patients in Singapore. Chronic Illness. Available online: December 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/17423953211067458

     

  6. Yoon, Sungwon, Hendra Goh, Angelique Chan, Rahul Malhotra, Abhijit Visaria, et al. 2022. Spillover Effects of COVID-19 on Essential Chronic Care and Ways to Foster Health System Resilience to Support Vulnerable Non-COVID Patients: A Multistakeholder Study. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 23(1): 7-14. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2021.11.004

     

  7. Sung, Pildoo, Veronica Shimin Goh, Nur Diyana Azman, Abhijit Visaria, and Rahul Malhotra. 2021. Types of Caregiving Experience and their Association with Caregiver Depressive Symptoms and Quality of Life. Journal of Aging and Health. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177%2F08982643211051568

     

  8. Duminy, Lize, Nirmali Sivapragasam, David Matchar, Abhijit Visaria, John Ansah, Carl Rudolf Blankart, and Lukas Schoenenberger. 2021. Validation and Application of a Needs-based Segmentation Tool for Cross-country Comparisons. Health Services Research, 56(S3): 1394-1404. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6773.13873

     

  9. COVIDental Collaboration Group. (Visaria, A: Member). 2021. The COVID-19 Pandemic and its Global Effects on Dental Practice: An International Survey. Journal of Dentistry, 114, Article 103749. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdent.2021.103749

     

  10. Chan, Angelique, Abhijit Visaria*, Bina Gubhaju, Stefan Ma, and Yasuhiko Saito. 2021. Gender differences in years of remaining life by living arrangement among older Singaporeans. European Journal of Ageing, 18(4):453-466. (*Corresponding author.) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-020-00594-3

     

  11. Tareque, Md. Ismail, Yasuhiko Saito, Angelique Chan, Abhijit Visaria, Stefan Ma, & Rahul Malhotra. 2019. Years of Life with and without Limitation in Physical Function and in Activities of Daily Living by Body Mass Index among Older Adults. International Journal of Obesity, 43: 2244-2253. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-019-0370-8

     

  12. Visaria, Abhijit and Premchand Dommaraju. 2019. Productive Ageing in India. Social Science & Medicine, 229: 14-21. Available online: July 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.07.029

 

OTHER RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

 

  1. Visaria, Abhijit and Bridget Seng. 2021. Self-rated Health and Depressive Symptomatology at Older Midlife in Singapore: Findings from a National Study. Research Brief 11. Singapore: Centre for Ageing Research and Education. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25722/9sez-awsr

     

  2. Chan, Angelique, Rahul Malhotra, Abhijit Visaria, Pildoo Sung, Bridget Seng, Yi Wen Tan. 2020. Transitions in Health, Employment, Social Engagement and Intergenerational Transfers in Singapore Study (THE SIGNS Study) – II: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses of Key Aspects of Successful Ageing. Singapore: Centre for Ageing Research and Education, Duke-NUS Medical School. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25722/kfgy-nb7

     

  3. Ng, Ted Kheng Siang, Abhijit Visaria, Stefan Ma, and Angelique Chan. 2020. Differential Effects of Loneliness and Depression on Mortality. Letter to the Editor. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 22(2): 476-478. DOI: https://10.1016/j.jamda.2020.11.018 

     

  4. Visaria, Abhijit and Angelique Chan. 2020. Psychological Resilience of Older Midlife Singaporeans: Findings from a National Study. Research Brief 8. Singapore: Centre for Ageing Research and Education. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25722/03sv-g140

     

  5. Visaria, Abhijit, Rahul Malhotra, and Angelique Chan. 2019. Changes in the Profile of Older Singaporeans: Snapshots from 2009 and 2016-2017. Special Issue 1. Singapore: Centre for Ageing Research and Education. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25722/y9bf-4f82

     

  6. Vikram, Kriti and Abhijit Visaria. 2019. Second Demographic Transition. Chapter 663-1 in Gu, Danan and Matthew E. Dupre (Editors). Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Cham: Springer. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_663-1

     

  7. Visaria, Abhijit. 2018. Correlates of Work and Retirement. In Chan, Angelique, et al. Transitions in Health, Employment, Social Engagement and Intergenerational Transfers in Singapore Study (THE SIGNS Study) – I: Descriptive Statistics and Analysis of Key Aspects of Successful Ageing. Singapore: Centre for Ageing Research and Education. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25722/w8ye-r177

     

  8. Chan, Angelique, Rahul Malhotra, Normala Bte Manap, Yi Yuan Ting, Abhijit Visaria, et al. 2018. Transitions in Health, Employment, Social Engagement and Intergenerational Transfers in Singapore Study (THE SIGNS Study) – I: Descriptive Statistics and Analysis of Key Aspects of Successful Ageing. Singapore: Centre for Ageing Research and Education. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25722/w8ye-r177

     

  9. Visaria, Abhijit. 2018. Expectations of Support from Daughters in India: The Role of Education, Employment, and Empowerment. SSRN. Available at: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3608788

     

  10. Visaria, Abhijit. 2014. Is Son Preference in India a Phenomenon among Hindus Alone? Analyzing Ideal Preferences and Fertility Behaviours. SSRN. Available at: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3608795