Several other studies of the epidemiology
of dementia were being undertaken at around the same time
as the Canadian Study of Health and Aging. Here are links
to a few of them:
Europe:
The European Community Concerted Action on the Epidemiology
and Prevention of Dementia Group (EURODEM) Collaborative Study.
This study collected data in Germany, Finland, France, Italy,
the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United
Kingdom.
http://www.alzheimer-europe.org/JMA/English/likelihood.html
The Rotterdam Study:
http://www.healthandage.net/html/min/therotterdamstudy/entrance.htm
The PAQUID Study:
The PAQUID Study has followed a cohort of elderly people in
three communities near Bordeaux in France for over 10 years.
Their publications are listed on this web site:
http://www.isped.u-bordeaux2.fr/ISPED/RECHERCHE/paquid/FR-PAQUID-Publications.htm
The Lundby longitudinal study,
Sweden:
http://www.psykiatr.lu.se/ehcr/lundby.html
The Kungsholmen Project, Stockholm,
Sweden:
http://www.ki.se/cnsf/geri/sgrc/kungsholmen/
In England, the MRC Cognition
and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge includes studies of dementia:
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/
The University of Liverpool’s
Department of Psychiatry has undertaken several studies of
dementia:
http://www.liv.ac.uk/psychiatry/research.htm
The Cambridgeshire Project for
Later Life:
The Cambridgeshire Project for Later Life is part of a six-centre
study of health and ageing in the UK. The other centres include
are Gwynedd in North Wales, Liverpool, Newcastle upon Tyne,
Nottingham and Oxford.
http://www.medinfo.cam.ac.uk/com_med/laterlife/default.htm
The United States:
The Baltimore Longitudinal Study
of Aging began in 1958:
http://www.grc.nia.nih.gov/branches/blsa/blsa.htm
The Consortium to Establish a
Registry for Alzheimer’s Disease (CERAD):
The Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer’s
Disease (CERAD)and the Established Population for Epidemiology
Studies of the Elderly (EPESE), listed below, are run out
of Duke University Center for the Study of Aging and Human
Development.
http://www.geri.duke.edu/research/cerad.html
Established Population for Epidemiology Studies of the
Elderly (EPESE):
http://www.geri.duke.edu/research/epese.html
The Nun Study:
The Nun Study is a longitudinal study of aging and Alzheimer’s
disease in a sample of nuns.
http://www.mc.uky.edu/nunnet/faq.htm
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