Table 1. Characteristics of Affiliated Longitudinal Studies of Aging
Affiliated IALSA Studies
Study Title
Start Yr
n
(T1)
Age
(T1)
Australian Longitudinal Study of Aging (ALSA)
1992
2087
65-103
11
2, 6, 3
4
Stratified sample of community
dwelling and those in residential care
Bronx Aging Study (BAS)
1980
488
75-85
15
1
16
Volunteer sample
Caerphilly Cohort Study of Older Men (CaPS)
1979
2512
45-59
25
4-5
6
Canadian Study of Health and Aging (CSHA)
1991
10263
65+
10
5
3
Canberra Longitudinal Study (CLS)
1991
897
70-93
14
3.5
5
Einstein Aging Study (EAS)
1993
1978
70-101
18
1
19
English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)*
2002
12100
49+
8
2
5
Aging in Women and Men (GENDER)
1995
498
69-81
8
4
3
Gerontological and Geriatric Population Studies in
Göteborg, Sweden (H-70)
1971
1000
70
29
2-5
12
Harvard Study of Adult Development (HSAD)
1939
724
82-92
68
2
35
Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and AHEAD*
1992
12600
50-60
16
2
9
Healthy Older Person Edinburgh Study (HOPE)
1990
603
70+
4
4
4
Medical registry
Interdisciplinary Longitudinal Study of Adult
Development (ILSE)
1993
1390
45, 65
12
4
4
Former East and West Germany
Long Beach Longitudinal Study (LBLS)
1978
509
55-87
21
2, 14
4
Recruited from Health Maintenance
Organization
Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (LASA)
1991
3107
55-85
12
3
5
Urban and rural municipal registries
Longitudinal Study of Cognitive Change in Normal,
Healthy Old Age (LSCC)
1982
1985
2050
2193
49-96
14
1-6
4
Community volunteer sample;
sequential design
Midlife in the U.S. (MIDUS)*
1995
7000+
25-74
9
9
2
Representative, noninstitutionalized
National Survey of Health and Development
(NSHD; 1946 British Birth Cohort Study)
1946
5362
60
60
Varies
39
Nationally representative sample UK
Nordic Research on Aging Study (NORA)
1989
1204
75
5
5
2
Representative city samples
Normative Aging Study (NAS)
1963
2280
21-81
42
5
13
Male veterans
2003
1793
68-82
4
1
5
Healthy volunteers
1990
702
80+
8
2
5
Swedish Twin Registry
Oregon Brain Aging Study (OBAS) and
Dementia Prevention Study (DPS)
1989+
2000
258
214
55-107
85-94
0-18
0-6.5
6 & 12
mo
Seattle Longitudinal Study (SLS)
1956
5000+
Cumul
22-70
42
7
Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
(SHARE)*
2004
45000
50+
6
2
4
Representative
Swedish Adoption Twin Study of Aging (SATSA)
1984
1500
40-84
12
3
5
Swedish Twin Registry
Longitudinal Study on Nutrition as a Determinant
of Successful Aging (NuAge)
Origins of Variance in the Old-Old: Octogenarian
Twins (OCTO-Twin)
Followup
Occ
Curr # Type Sample
(yrs)
Interval Occ
Electoral register plus GP lists, male
only
Representative (community and
institutions)
Community sample (electoral role),
institutional care, oversampling of very
old
Systematic, representative. Ethnically
diverse.
Representative.
Opposite sex twins in Sweden born
between 1916 and 1925
Representative sample: Gothenberg;
sequential design
268 male Harvard graduates (Grant
study) & 456 inner-city Boston men
(Glueck study)
National sample, minorities
oversampled
1-33
(16.5) Community volunteers
1-13
Health Maintenance Organization;
7
sequential design
Affiliated IALSA Studies (continued)
Start Yr
Study Title
n
(T1)
Age
(T1)
Followup
Occ
Curr # Type Sample
(yrs)
Interval Occ
Seattle Longitudinal Study (SLS)
1956
5000+
Cumul
22-70
42
7
7
Health Maintenance Organization;
sequential design
Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
(SHARE)*
2004
45000
50+
6
2
4
Representative
Swedish Adoption Twin Study of Aging (SATSA)
1984
1500
40-84
12
3
5
Swedish Twin Registry
(1964)
1986
1992
1986
1993
2002
(7007)
4989
1154
484
530
570
(17-25)
40-48
3
3
--
12
7
6
4
1
- Students – data on file
- Joined study
- spouses
55-85
55-85
55-85
(40)
20
14
15
9
0
Wisconsin Longitudinal Study (WLS)*
1957
10,317
18
48
7-17
5
Random sample high school graduates
Zurich Longitudinal Sudy of Cognitive Aging
(ZULU)
2005
364
65-80
6
1.5, 5
3
Community volunteers
Start Yr
n
(T1)
Age
(T1)
Aberdeen 1936 Birth Cohort (ABC)
1947/
2000
350
11/ 64
53
53
2
Volunteer sample from Aberdeen 11year-olds who participated in 1947
“Scottish Mental Survey”.
Boyd Orr (BOYD)
1936/
1997
4999/
1648
Childhoo
d/
60+
70
Varies
3+
Follow-up of surviving sample from
4999 Boyd Orr sample in 1936.
English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)*
2002
12000
50+
8
2
4
Nationally representative sample UK
Hertfordshire Ageing Study (HAS)
1994
717
birth
72-83
60+, 10
3
Follow-up of surviving sample from
2621 Hertfordshire 1920-1930 birth
and infant development ledgers.
Hertfordshire Cohort Study (HCS)
1931/
1998
2621
birth
66
Lothian 1921 Birth Cohort Study (LBC)
1932/
2001
551
11/ 79
69
The National Child Development Study (NCDS)
1958
17500
birth
50+
National Survey of Health and Development
(NSHD; 1946 British Birth Cohort Study)
1946
5362
Birth/ 60
60
Whitehall II (WH-II)
1985
10308
35-55
24
University of North Carolina Alumni Heart Study
(UNCAHS)
Victoria Longitudinal Study (VLS)
Affiliated HALCyon Studies
Study Title
Note. Public use data sets are indicated by *
1.5
Community volunteers; sequential
design
Followup
Occ
Curr # Type Sample
(yrs)
Interval Occ
Infant
Follow-up of surviving sample from
records +
1931-1939 Hertfordshire birth and
Varies
survey +
infant development ledgers.
medical
Volunteer sample from Lothian 1169
2
year-olds who participated in 1932
“Scottish Mental Survey”.
17,000 babies born in one week in
4-10
9+
1958
Nationally representative 1946 sample
Varies
39
UK
2-4
9
British civil servants