1. The Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam
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Silvia S Klokgieters, Marleen van der Horst, Priyanta Malhoe, Natasja M. van Schoor, Erik J. Timmermans, Almar A L Kok, Sascha de Breij, Martijn Huisman, Elisabeth Maria van Zutphen, Jan Poppelaars, Emiel O. Hoogendijk, Najada Stringa, Dorly J. H. Deeg, Sociology [until 2010], Sociology and Social Gerontology, Sociology, The Social Context of Aging (SoCA), Epidemiology and Data Science, APH - Quality of Care, APH - Aging & Later Life, APH - Mental Health, Psychiatry, APH - Societal Participation & Health, and APH - Personalized Medicine
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Male ,Gerontology ,Aging ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Turkey ,Epidemiology ,Turkish ,Health Status ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,Genotyping data ,03 medical and health sciences ,Cognition ,0302 clinical medicine ,Cohort Update ,medicine ,Humans ,Older migrants ,Longitudinal Studies ,Prospective Studies ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Prospective cohort study ,Geriatric Assessment ,Netherlands ,Aged ,Social functioning ,Aged, 80 and over ,Transients and Migrants ,business.industry ,Data Collection ,Public health ,Study design ,SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities ,Middle Aged ,language.human_language ,Affect ,Morocco ,Physical Fitness ,Cohort ,language ,Cohort studies ,Female ,business ,Cohort study - Abstract
The Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (LASA) is a prospective cohort study of older adults in the Netherlands, initially based on a nationally representative sample of people aged 55-84 years. The study has been ongoing since 1992, and focuses on the determinants, trajectories and consequences of physical, cognitive, emotional and social functioning. Strengths of the LASA study include its multidisciplinary character, the availability of over 25 years of follow-up, and the cohort-sequential design that allows investigations of longitudinal changes, cohort differences and time trends in functioning. The findings from LASA have been reported in over 600 publications so far (see www.lasa-vu.nl). This article provides an update of the design of the LASA study and its methods, on the basis of recent developments. We describe additional data collections, such as additional nine-monthly measurements in-between the regular three-yearly waves that have been conducted among the oldest old during 2016-2019, and the inclusion of a cohort of older Turkish and Moroccan migrants.
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- 2020
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