LASI-DAD study: a protocol for a prospective cohort study of late-life cognition and dementia in India.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Alzheimer's disease and related dementias can be considered the epidemic of the 21st century. Particularly, the predicted growth in the size of elderly populations in low-income and middle-income countries is expected to produce a dramatic surge in dementia prevalence and incidence. Although a rising burden of dementia presents an urgent challenge for India, previous efforts to study dementia in the country have relied on non-representative samples in geographically restricted regions. The Harmonised Diagnostic Assessment of Dementia for the Longitudinal Aging Study in India (LASI-DAD) will provide rich, population-representative data on late-life cognition and dementia and their risk factors for the first time in India.

Methods

The LASI-DAD will recruit a sampl

SUBMITTER: Lee J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6677961 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature