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Cohort Profile: The Cambridge City over-75s Cohort (CC75C)
1Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, UK.
2 Department of Psychological Medicine, Monash University, Victoria, Australia.
* Corresponding author. E-mail: jane.fleming@phpc.cam.ac.uk
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The Cambridge City over-75s Cohort (CC75C), one of the largest and longest-running population-based studies of the oldest old, is celebrating its 21st birthday. Its origins and subsequent evolution into one of the UK's key ageing cohort studies lie in the collaboration of many distinguished researchers, and its ongoing importance owes much to the invaluable contribution made by its many committed participants.
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Sir Martin Roth is a key figure in the development of old age psychiatry as it is today, and he made a major contribution to research into dementia in the last half of the last century1–4 (Figure 1). The field of dementia epidemiology developed naturally from his early work with hospital residents, which linked the study of their mental disorders to examination of their brains after death. In the 1980s questions were emerging about the best patterns of care for people with dementia, early detection and whether
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Who is in the study sample? |
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Key dimensions and measures |
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Interview data
CAMDEX assessments
Biological resources
Brain donation study
Other measures
Proxy informant interviews
Retrospective informant interviews
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What has the study found? |
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Main strengths |
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Main weaknesses |
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Can I get hold of data? |
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Contributors |
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