Introduction
In order to outline the factors of healthy aging, a longitudinal study contributes explanatory power to separate the usual aging process from causal factors associated with poor health and disability in later life.
The Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) launched in 1992 in the USA was one of the first panel studies for older people. HRS has made longitudinal data available to capture time trends and major factors related to health and functional status, family relationships, occupational status, income and consumption, life after retirement, and the effects of social policies for the elderly (see the Health and Retirement Study: A Longitudinal Data Resource for Psychologists). HRS has influenced British and European longitudinal studies of aging which benchmark HRS. In Britain, ELSA (English Longitudinal Study of Ageing) was started from 2002; SHARE (Study of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) involving 13 nations was launched in 2004.
While these studies have...
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Jang, SN. (2016). Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing (KLoSA): Overview of Research Design and Contents. In: Pachana, N. (eds) Encyclopedia of Geropsychology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-080-3_55-1
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