Longitudinal Urban Cohort Ageing Study (LUCAS)
LUCAS is a long-running prospective cohort study based in Hamburg, Germany, involving 3,326 community-dwelling seniors aged 60 and older and is complemented by specific studies of geriatric patients and diseases. Participants were recruited in 2000 from lists generated by 21 general practitioners in the Hamburg metropolitan area, who excluded those with terminal illnesses, daily assistance needs, or cognitive impairments. So far, there have been ten waves of data collection (2000-2024), with an additional 2,012 participants re-recruited during Wave 2 (2007/2008) to compensate for losses due to death and dropouts. The cohort is followed up approximately every 2-3 years.
Study design
Cohort, Cohort - clinical
Number of participants at first data collection
3,326 (participants)
Recruitment is ongoing
Age at first data collection
60 ≥ years (participants)
Participant year of birth
Varied (participants)
Participant sex
All
Representative sample at baseline?
No
Sample features
Country
Year of first data collection
2000 (participants)
Primary Institutions
University of Hamburg (Universität Hamburg)
Links
albertinen-zentrum-altersmedizin.de/forschung-lehre/geriatrische-forschungsabteilung/lucas/
Profile paper DOI
Funders
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF) now known as Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt, BMFTR)
Ongoing?
Yes
Data types collected
- Interview – face-to-face
- Interview – phone
- Self-report questionnaire – online
- Self-report questionnaire – paper or computer assisted
- Interviews or focus groups
- None
- Healthcare data
- Mortality data
Engagement
Keywords
Consortia and dataset groups
