Cohort Profile: The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
Cohort Profile: The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing
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DOI：
10.1093/ije/dyr116
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发表时间：
2011-08-01
影响因子：
7.7
通讯作者：
Kenny, RoseAnne
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作者：
Kearney, Patricia M.;Cronin, Hilary;Kenny, RoseAnne
爱尔兰与其他发达国家一样面临人口快速持续老龄化的前景。目前爱尔兰人口的年龄分布正在发生巨大变化，预计这种趋势将持续到未来。 1 人们的寿命越来越长，老年人在人口中所占比例越来越大。在爱尔兰，565 岁人口的比例在过去 40 年里一直稳定在 11%。然而，预计到 2021 年，这一比例将升至 14%，到 2031 年将升至 19%。2 增幅最大的是 480 岁的老年人，预计到 2036 年将增加两倍以上。2 爱尔兰人口结构的这一变化构成了重大的公共卫生挑战。与美国的情况不同，3, 4 英国 5 和许多其他发达国家，6, 7爱尔兰还没有进行大规模的基于人群的队列研究来为健康老龄化研究提供信息。尽管许多研究提供了有关爱尔兰老年人健康状况的人口数据，但仍有 8-10 个问题没有得到解答。爱尔兰老龄化纵向研究 (TILDA) 是一项关于老龄化的大型前瞻性队列研究，其中包括对爱尔兰社区居民老年人的社会、经济和健康状况的评估。该研究与国际领先研究保持一致，以确保采用最佳实践和结果的可比性。爱尔兰政府、大西洋慈善基金会和爱尔兰人寿公司为这项研究提供了资金。已获得都柏林三一学院研究伦理委员会的伦理批准。
Ireland shares with other developed countries the prospect of rapid and sustained population ageing. The age distribution of the Irish population is undergoing a dramatic change at present and this trend is predicted to continue into the future. 1 People are living longer, and older persons represent a larger proportion of the population. In Ireland, the proportion of the population aged 565 years has remained steady at $11% for the past 40 years. However, it is projected that this proportion will rise to 14% by 2021 and to 19% by 2031. 2 The greatest increase will be in the oldest old, aged 480 years, which is expected to more than treble by 2036. 2 This change in the demographic profile of the Irish population poses a major public health challenge.Unlike the situation in the USA, 3, 4 the UK 5 and many other developed countries, 6, 7 there have been no large population-based cohort studies in Ireland to inform research on healthy ageing. Whereas a number of studies have provided population-based data on the health status of older people living in Ireland, 8–10 many questions remain unanswered. The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) is a large prospective cohort study of ageing, which includes an assessment of the social, economic and health circumstances of community-resident older people living in Ireland. The study has been harmonized with leading international research so as to ensure adoption of best practice and comparability of results. The Irish government, The Atlantic Philanthropies and Irish Life plc have provided funding for the study. Ethical approval has been obtained from the Trinity College Dublin Research Ethics Committee.