Saunders P A, Copeland J R, Dewey M E, Larkin B A, Scott A
Department of Psychiatry, University of Liverpool, UK.
Neuroepidemiology. 1992;11 Suppl 1:44-7. doi: 10.1159/000110977.
The design and methods of this longitudinal study of dementia which is underway are described. An age- and sex-stratified random sample of 6,000 elderly community subjects are being re-assessed after a 2-year interval using the GMS-AGECAT package. Alpha forms part of the MRC funded UK multicentre incidence study and an international network of collaborative studies using comparable measures.