Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study 1945-1955 Retirement Cohort (CRELES - RC)
CRELES-RC is a survey of the health and life-course experiences of ageing Costa Ricans. The study recruited a nationally representative sample of elderly Costa Ricans who were between 55 and 65 years old at baseline. Participants were from all over Costa Rica, including rural areas and more urban areas such as the Capital, San Jose. At baseline, the sample consisted of over 2,700 participants of socioeconomic and educational backgrounds.
Study design
Cohort - birth
Number of participants at first data collection
2,798 (participants)
Age at first data collection
55 - 65 years (participants)
Participant year of birth
1945 - 1955 (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
Costa Ricans born between 1945 and 1955.
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
2010
Primary Institutions
University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
University of Costa Rica (Universidad de Costa Rica, UCR)
Links
Profile paper DOI
Funders
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Ongoing?
No
Data types collected
- Activity log (e.g. food, sleep, exercise)
- Computer, paper or task testing (e.g. cognitive testing, theory of mind doll task, attention computer tasks)
- Interview – face-to-face
- Physical or biological assessment (e.g. blood, saliva, gait, grip strength, anthropometry)
- Secondary data
- None
- None
- Geographic, spatial & environmental data
- Mortality data
- Other government data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
