The Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam: cohort update 2019 and additional data collections

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 p...

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Published in:European journal of epidemiology 2020-01, Vol.35 (1), p.61-74
Main Authors: Hoogendijk, Emiel O., Deeg, Dorly J. H., de Breij, Sascha, Klokgieters, Silvia S., Kok, Almar A. L., Stringa, Najada, Timmermans, Erik J., van Schoor, Natasja M., van Zutphen, Elisabeth M., van der Horst, Marleen, Poppelaars, Jan, Malhoe, Priyanta, Huisman, Martijn
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Affect
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Aging
Aging - physiology
Aging - psychology
Cardiology
Cognition - physiology
Cognitive ability
Cohort analysis
Cohort Update
Data Collection
Epidemiology
Female
Geriatric Assessment
Health Status
Humans
Infectious Diseases
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Middle Aged
Migrants
Morocco - ethnology
Netherlands - epidemiology
Older people
Oncology
Physical Fitness
Prospective Studies
Public Health
Transients and Migrants - statistics & numerical data
Turkey - ethnology
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Summary: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.
ISSN:0393-2990
1573-7284
DOI:10.1007/s10654-019-00541-2