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HALCyon - Healthy Ageing across the Life Course
— capitalising on the value of UK life course cohorts | | Author(s) | Diana Kuh, Avan Athie Sayer, Yeav Ben-Shiomo |
| Corporate Author | New Dynamics of Ageing Programme - NDA; Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield |
| Publisher | New Dynamics of Ageing - NDA, Sheffield, 2014 |
| Pages | 8 pp (NDA Findings 33) |
| Source | NDA Research Programme, Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield, Elmfield, Northumberland Road, Sheffield S10 2TU. www.newdynamics.group.shef.ac.uk |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Life span ; Longitudinal surveys ; Projects ; Research Reviews. |
| Annotation | Objective measures of physical capability are useful markers of healthy ageing. The Healthy Ageing across the Life Course (HALCyon) was a collaborative research project, the overall objective of which was the scientific discovery of lifetime determinants of healthy ageing, through inter-cohort comparisons in nine UK life course cohort studies. These included the two oldest British birth cohort studies: the MRC National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD) and the National Child Development Study (NCDS), which have followed large nationally representative samples of the British population since their birth in March 1946 and March 1958 respectively. Five historical cohorts: the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921 (LBC1921), Aberdeen Birth Cohort 1936 (ABC1936), Hertfordshire Cohort Study (HCS), Hertfordshire Ageing Study (HAS), and Boyd Orr Cohort Study, where some data (e.g. birth and infant health records, childhood cognitive test results) had been collected in childhood; participants were then retraced and followed-up in adulthood. Lastly, two cohorts - the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) and the Caerphilly Prospective Study (CaPS) - started in adult life but have repeat measures of functional ageing. Other studies such as the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam and Whitehall II study contributed data to specific analyses. Further information about the project is on the HALCyon website ((www.halcyon,ac.uk). |
| Accession Number | CPA-150522004 P |
| Classmark | CC: BG6: 3J: 3E: 3A:6KC * |
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