W8 Flashcards
what are the common characteristics of LSLS?
- multiple collaborators with multiple discipline
- multiple sites
- long designs with diff cohort
- diverse research q, methods, databases
- rich, enduring legacies
- neighboring disciplines: biomedical, psych, methodology, institutional, helping and care, epidemiology
what is step 1 of LSLS Logic?
with aging come neurocognitive and other health transitions
- initially healthy older adults naturally transition into one+ general and brain-health-related trajectories leading toward clinically diagnosed conditions
- brain related transitions with age
what is step 2 of LSLS?
with longitudinal data the aging transitions can be tracked
- long-term trajectories in to and out of transition phases can be tracked for NA individuals as well as selected clinical groups
what is step 3 of LSLS?
with long-term tracking, markers, inflection points, and individual differences can be identified
- following individuals over long periods can lead to: characterization of individual differences in trajectories, detection of individual trajectory subtypes, identification of inflection points, detection of early markers of later NDD, evolution of roles of risk and protection factors
what is step 4 of LSLS?
with marker identification, progress in understanding aging conditions
-> progress toward descriptive clarity and explanatory understanding of biological, neurological, health, and cognitive precursors of transitions reflecting stability in NA, decline of MCI, onset of dementia and healthy, resilient or exceptional BA
what is step 5 of LSLS?
with progress in understanding aging conditions, precursors can be identified and interventions can be tested
- early markers indicate mechanisms of differential pathways of NDD
- explanatory knowledge, potential targets of interventions to delay neg outcomes and promote pos trajectories
what is step 6 of LSLS?
- delaying AD can help to reduce prevalence rates (by ~50%)
- prevalence reduction could substantially lessen familial and personal suffering, produce extensive relief and cost savings for informal care and public health)
what are examples of LSLS?
- Berlin Aging Study
- Betula Project
- PATH Through Life
- Maastricht Aging Study
- Nun Study
- religious Orders Study
- Seattle Long Study
- Victoria Long Study
- Swedish National Study of Aging and Care
what was the disadvantage to the Nun study?
- extrapolation of findings from this unique population may be limited
what was the advantage of the Nun study?
convent archives
how do the factors that confide the findings get eliminated?
relatively homogenous adult lifestyles and environments of women
why are the Nuns a good participants for AD study?
abstain from RF like smoking and drinking
what did Dr.David Snowden do?
studied predictors of Ad and healthy brain aging in a homogenous cohort
why were the Nuns aging gracefully and did not have memory loss when having AD?
active lifestyle and educated
what was a predictor of AD in the Nun study?
lower third in idea density were 60 times more likely to have AD-like brains post-mortem
compare low and high density in AD patients?
low were early AD
high were late onset
what was the mindset of the Nuns?
thought of participation was a service not a requirement
- thought getting her brain checked out kept her out of trouble
what was the most interesting part of the study?
the brains had lots of pathology but they weren’t demented
what was the difference between the Swedish and Nun study?
expanded from a small homogenous to a large heterogenous sample
what is SNAC?
swedish national study of aging and care
- recording of provision of care for persons over 60
what was the continuation of SNAC-K?
Kungsholmen
- clinical examination over 60 yrs
- neuroimaging long sub0study
what was the goal of SNAC-K?
understand aging process and identify possible preventative strategies to improve health and care
what was the model for SNAC-K?
conceptual model
- lifespan
- developmental approach
- rf and pf
- determinants of health outcomes
- health defined broadly
what were the target processes and outcomes?
physical: brain aging, multi- and co-morbidities, cog and physical aging
psychological: subjective health, satisfaction and well-being
social: integration and engagement
what are the aims of SNAC-K?
- examining genetic, health, social, cog, sub, lifestyle factors that risk/protect healthy aging
- examine rf and pf associated with NDD, multi-morbidity, diseases
- examining natural history of NDD from pre-clinical to clinical phases, resolution
who created SNAC-K?
Dr Laura Fratiglioni