6 Waves: 1997-2013
Baseline survey: 1997-1998
Wave 1 – Wave 5: Follow-up surveys at 18-month intervals
Wave 6: 2012/2013
1.692
(1.500 private household, 192 nursing home)
75+
75+
Quantitative: standardized interviews
Proxy data: Relatives of morbid or deceased subjects
Longitudinal
Questionnaires
Cognitive measures
Physical measures
Administrative databases (Vital statistics databases)
Epidemiology of dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases.
Determine the prevalence and incidence of dementing disorders in the elderly population;
Identification of relevant risk factors and risk populations (especially mild cognitive impairment).
Medicine
Prof. Steffi G. Riedel-Heller, MPH
steffi.riedel-heller@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
Dr. Susanne Roehr
susanne.roehr@medizin.uni-leipzig.de
Riedel-Heller, S.G., Busse, A., Aurich, C., Matschinger, H., Angermeyer, M.C. Prevalence of dementia according to DSM-III-R and ICD-10. Results of the Leipzig Longitudinal Study of the Aged (LEILA75+) Part I. British Journal of Psychiatry (2018) 179, 250-254