The Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (LASA) is a prospective cohort study of older adults in the Netherlands, initially based on a nationally representative sample of people aged 55–84 years. The study has been ongoing since 1992, and focuses on the determinants, trajectories and consequences of physical, cognitive, emotional and social functioning.
Strengths of the LASA study include its multidisciplinary character, the availability of over 25 years of follow-up, and the cohort-sequential design that allows investigations of longitudinal changes, cohort differences and time trends in functioning.
LASA is initiated by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport in 1991 to investigate predictors and consequences of aging. LASA focuses on physical, emotional, cognitive and social functioning in late life, the connections between these components, the changes in these components that occur in the course of time within and between respondents, and the consequences of these changes (e.g. in terms of care and social participation).
You can find more information on the LASA cohort study website.
Meta-data of this cohort can be found on the website of GECCO.
APH contact persons: Martijn Huisman, Marleen van der Horst
Contact: lasa@amsterdamumc.nl