Gerontology Research Programme: The Singapore Longitudinal Ageing Studies (SLAS I & II)

Summary

The Gerontology Research Programme (GRP) in the National University Singapore's Department of Psychological Medicine, was formed to coordinate and facilitate the conduct of multi-disciplinary research on in a wide range of research on ageing and health. The establishment of the Singapore Longitudinal Aging Cohort will provide a large community-based cohort of elderly subjects for observational studies with useful clinical applications. Research synergy is achieved in terms of pooling multi-disciplinary expertise, and combining genetic, biological, environmental, behavioural, social, clinical, and health services approaches to gerontological research.

Conditions

• Cognitive Changes Due to Organic Disorder (Finding)
• Dementia
• Mild Cognitive Impairment
• Frailty
• Depression
• Healthy Ageing
• Biological Ageing

Interventions

OTHER

SLAS 1

NA. Observational study, no interventions administered.

OTHER

SLAS 2

NA. Observational study, no interventions administered.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Karolinska Institutet

  collaborator OTHER

• Tan Tock Seng Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• Ng Teng Fong General Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• St Luke's Hospital, Singapore

  collaborator OTHER

• St. Paul's Hospital, Canada

  collaborator OTHER

• Singapore Institute of Technology

  collaborator OTHER

• Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School

  collaborator OTHER

• Melbourne Health

  collaborator OTHER

• University of California

  collaborator OTHER

• University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

  collaborator OTHER

• Université de Sherbrooke

  collaborator OTHER

• University Hospital Tuebingen

  collaborator OTHER

• National University Hospital, Singapore

  collaborator OTHER

• Khoo Teck Puat Hospital

  collaborator OTHER

• Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine

  collaborator OTHER

• University of British Columbia

  collaborator OTHER

• National University of Singapore

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Tze Pin Ng, PhD · National University of Singapore

Eligibility

Min Age

55 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2003-07-01

Primary Completion

2020-12-31

Completion

2020-12-31

Countries

• Singapore

Study Locations