The Scottish Longitudinal Study of Ageing (THSLS)

描述（由申请人提供）：苏格兰没有对老龄化进行纵向研究，这在西欧是不寻常的。这个项目将成为这样一项调查的试点——苏格兰老龄化纵向调查（THSLS），以补充现有的老龄化纵向研究，特别是那些在不列颠群岛上被称为ELSA（英格兰）、TILDA（爱尔兰）和NICOLA（北爱尔兰）的研究。该调查还将与全球范围的老龄化纵向调查密切相关，其中主要成员是HRS（美国）和SHARE（欧洲大陆）。THSLS的目的是进一步了解老龄化在苏格兰的学术和政策目的；通过影响政策和做法，改善老年人的健康和社会经济成果；使苏格兰成为国际老龄化研究比较的重要来源；产生有利于纵向老龄化研究家族其他成员的方法学进步。THSLS指导小组致力于与英国国内和国际上的其他老龄化纵向研究合作，以确保协调一致，并在开发方法上进行合作。THSLS的试点研究将测试一些创新方面，我们希望将其嵌入苏格兰老龄化纵向研究的完整版本中。THSLS试验的结果将从根本上为整个THSLS研究的设计提供信息。该试点将建立使用NHS中央登记册（NHSCR）作为抽样框架的过程。它将测试将样本与行政卫生、教育、收入、福利和社会保健数据联系起来的潜力。这些联系有可能使苏格兰调查成为世界范围内老龄化纵向调查中最有力的调查和行政数据组合之一。因此，试点实地工作将涉及使用《国家卫生和社会责任条例》构建一个样本，采访老年人样本（目标是400人），并测试在征得同意的情况下将他们的健康、教育和其他数据来源的记录联系起来的程序。我们将进行广泛的敏感性分析，将NHSCR样本与现有的调查进行比较，这些调查是从英国更常用的抽样方法中抽取的-使用从一组邮政编码地址中抽取的样本。该试点还将测试侧重于校准认知和社交网络的新方法的模块。在完整的研究中，这些将通过从现有的ELSA和TILDA研究中提取的模块来补充，以最大限度地提高与这些同源研究的可比性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Scotland does not have a longitudinal study of ageing, making it unusual within Western Europe. This project would form the pilot for such a survey -THe Scottish Longitudinal Survey of ageing (THSLS), to complement existing longitudinal studies of ageing, particularly those in the British Isles which are known as ELSA (England), TILDA (Eire) and NICOLA (Northern Ireland). THSLS would also be closely linked to a world-wide family of longitudinal surveys of ageing, key members of which are the HRS (US) and SHARE (mainland Europe). The aims of THSLS are to further the understanding of aging in Scotland for academic and policy purposes; to improve health and socioeconomic outcomes for older people through influencing both policy and practice; to make Scotland a valued source in international comparisons of aging research, and; to generate methodological advances that will benefit other members of the family of longitudinal aging studies. The THSLS Steering Group are committed to working with the other longitudinal studies of ageing both within the UK and internationally to ensure harmonisation and to collaborate on developing methodology. The pilot study for THSLS will test some of the innovative aspects which we hope to embed in the full version of the Scottish longitudinal study of ageing. The findings from the THSLS pilot will fundamentally inform the design of the full THSLS study. The pilot will establish the process for using the NHS Central Register (NHSCR) as a sampling frame. It will test the potential for linking the sample to administrative health, education, income, benefits and social care data. These linkages have the potential to make the Scottish survey one of the most powerful combinations of survey and administrative data in the worldwide family of longitudinal surveys of aging. The pilot fieldwork therefore will involve constructing a sample using the NHSCR, interviewing a sample of older people (target of 400 individuals), and testing the procedures for linking with consent to their records in health, education and other data sources. We will undertake extensive sensitivity analyses comparing the NHSCR sample with existing surveys drawn from the more usual approach to sampling in the UK - the use of a sample drawn from the set of postcode addresses. The pilot will also test modules focussing on new methods of calibrating cognition and social networking. In the full study, these will be supplemented by modules drawn from the existing ELSA and TILDA studies to maximise comparability with these cognate studies.