Scientists from prestigious departments are more likely to be center affiliates, so are prolific scientists, former postdoctoral scholars and the elder cohorts.
Calendar postcards have been used as a gold standard in studies evaluating fall recall at 3, 6 and 12 months in elder cohorts [ 59, 93].
The percentage of population aged over 64 years was chosen to reflect the presence of older generations, which could be deemed both an indicator of the relative weight of elder cohorts in these municipalities, and a marker of the social and cultural environment, on the assumption that such an environment would modulate the speed of change.
Forty-three healthy older adults, 17 male, (40%), were also recruited from the community as controls via invitation letters to the Birmingham 1000 Elders cohort of healthy older adults involved in current research at the University of Birmingham.
At this point in time, BRIGHT has only been tested in New Zealand and included Māori and Pasifika elders; however, the cohort reflected predominantly Caucasian participants.
Recently, Mast et al. (7) also found a composite score combining vascular diseases and vascular risk factors to predict 2-year incidence of elevated depressive symptoms in individuals aged 70 to 79, a finding replicated in another cohort of elders (8).
Cross-sectional and longitudinal multivariate regression analyses of data from 4 cohort studies with elder workers (2004 and 2006) testing associations of psychosocial stress at work ('effort-reward imbalance'lowlow control') with depressive symptoms.
The combined study included 828 elders from the original Framingham cohort and the offspring cohort, where the age range of 70 77 years was matched to those of the SENECA participants.
In the present report, we sought to prospectively examine the associations between informal care-giving arrangement (defined by kinship of main family caregiver to the recipient) and care recipients' survival in a cohort of Japanese elders.
