TY - JOUR AU - Dapp, Ulrike AU - Anders, Jennifer AU - von Renteln-Kruse, Wolfgang AU - Golgert, Stefan AU - Meier-Baumgartner, Hans Peter AU - Minder, Christoph E. PY - 2012 DA - 2012/07/09 TI - The longitudinal urban cohort ageing study (LUCAS): study protocol and participation in the first decade JO - BMC Geriatrics SP - 35 VL - 12 IS - 1 AB - We present concept, study protocol and selected baseline data of the Longitudinal Urban Cohort Ageing Study (LUCAS) in Germany. LUCAS is a long-running cohort study of community-dwelling seniors complemented by specific studies of geriatric patients or diseases. Aims were to (1) Describe individual ageing trajectories in a metropolitan setting, documenting changes in functional status, the onset of frailty, disability and need of care; (2) Find determinants of healthy ageing; (3) Assess long-term effects of specific health promotion interventions; (4) Produce results for health care planning for fit, pre-frail, frail and disabled elderly persons; (5) Set up a framework for embedded studies to investigate various hypotheses in specific subgroups of elderly. SN - 1471-2318 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-12-35 DO - 10.1186/1471-2318-12-35 ID - Dapp2012 ER -