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Australian Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ALSA)

The Australian Longitudinal Study of Ageing is a large (N=2087) population based study created to examine the biopsychosocial factors of health and well-being in an ageing adult sample. The ALSA sample was originally drawn from the South Australian Electoral Database and targeted residents over 70 years of age and their partners (65+ years).

The study is ongoing and to date has eight measurement occasions spanning over 15 years. The comprehensive longitudinal data was assembled by the principal investigators, Professors Gary Andrews and Mary Luszcz (Flinders University), and Professor George Myers (Duke University), to increase knowledge and understanding of the biomedical, psychological, social, behavioural, socio-economic, and environmental factors associated with ageing and age-related changes in well-being and health for older adults.

ARU members are using ALSA to investigate the trajectories of change in different self-rated health measures in older adults, and to determine the factors of these changes, and how the change may predict mortality. Other ARU / ALSA projects include the longitudinal examination of the effects of social support on the domains of physical and psychological health in late-life.

 

ARU staff working on DYNOPTA

• Professor Kaarin Anstey
• Dr Tim Windsor
• Dr Kerry Sargent-Cox
• Ms Natalie Chan

Collaborators

• Professor Mary Luszcz (Flinders Centre for Ageing Studies, South Australia)

Related student projects

• The role of formal and informal support in maintaining physical and psychological health in later life
  Ms Natalie Chan (Phd Candidate)