Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old: An overview of the AHEAD study
Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old: An overview of the AHEAD study
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DOI：
10.1093/geronb/52b.special_issue.1
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发表时间：
1997-05-01
影响因子：
6.2
通讯作者：
Wallace, RB
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作者：
Soldo, BJ;Hurd, MD;Wallace, RB
本章提供了最年长者的资产和健康动态（AHEAD）研究的背景信息，AHEAD是对1923年或更早出生的人进行的前瞻性小组调查，这些人在1993年基线时居住在社区中。访谈，寻求与已婚家庭中的配偶双方，总共完成了8，222：我们回顾了激励研究的跨学科科学问题，描述了构建AHEAD的基本设计决策，并总结了核心和实验模块的内容。这项研究提供了关于认知、家庭结构和转移以及资产的异常详细的数据。数据的抽样选择，答复率，和少数群体的过抽样。受访者的人口，健康和社会经济属性的基本描述性数据也介绍了芬兰人未来波的AHEAD的描述，包括死者的亲属采访。
This chapter provides background information for the study of Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old (AHEAD), a prospective panel survey of persons born in 1923 or earlier who were residing in the community at the time of the 1993 baseline. Interviews, were sought with both spouses in married households, and an overall total of 8,222 were completed: We review the interdisciplinary scientific issues that motivated the study, describe the fundamental design decisions that structured AHEAD, and summarize the content ill the core and experimental modules. The study provides unusually detailed data on cognition, family structure and transfers, and assets. Data are presented on sample selections, response rates, and oversamples of minority groups. Basic descriptive data on the demographic, health, and socioeconomic attributes of respondents also are presented Finns for future waves of AHEAD are described, including a next-of-kin interview for deceased respondents.