Wave 1: 1995-1997
Wave 2: 1999-2001
Wave 3: 2003-2005
1.210 (470 with biological samples)
69-88
69-88
Longitudinal
Questionnaires (subjective health, medicine consumption and behaviors and attitudes related to health, perceived ADL capacity, personality and social networks, formal and informal care)
Cognitive and physical measures (measures of grip-strength, vital capacity, blood pressure, a number of exercises related to muscle strength and balance, and cognitive functions)
Biosamples (blood values and genotyping)
Health behaviors in old age
To study the origins of individual differences of unlike-sex twin pairs born between 1906 and 1925.
Medicine, Social Science, Psychology
Institute of Gerontology, School of Health and Welfare
Jönköping University
Prof. Deborah Finkel
Professor, PI of GENDER
Institute of Gerontology, School of Health and Welfare
Jönköping University
Tel: +46 36-10 1322
deborah.finkel@ju.se
https://ju.se/gender