Changing lives, changing brains
We will study life-course effects of and interactions between family and work in adulthood for risk of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and cognitive impairment in older adults.
About the project
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Project period: 01.07.2020 - 30.06.2025 (Active)
- Coordinating Institution: Norwegian Institute of Public Health
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Project Manager:
- Bjørn Heine Strand, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
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Project Participants:
- Jordan Weiss, University of Pennsylvania
- Catherine E Bowen, University of Pennsylvania
- Eric Bonsang, University Paris Dauphine (Paris IX)
- Sarah Tom, Columbia University in the City of New York
- Bjørn-Atle Reme, Health Services Research, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
- Jonathan Wörn, Centre for Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
- Jennifer Ruth Harris, Centre for Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
- Bo Lars Engdahl, Physical Health and Ageing, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
- Asta Kristine Håberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- Steinar Krokstad, HUNT Research Centre, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- Geir Selbæk, The Norwegian National Centre for Ageing and Health, Vestfold Hospital Trust
- Bernt Magne Bratsberg, Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research
- Astanand Jugessur, Centre for Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
- Vegard Fykse Skirbekk, Centre for Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Summary
We will study life-course effects of and interactions between family and work in adulthood for risk of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) and cognitive impairment in older adults. This will be done by exploiting the exceptional Norwegian HUNT (Nord-Trondelag Health Study) dataset, a large ongoing prospective population level study that includes cohorts born 1900 – 1960 (including more than 11700 participants aged 70+ years), combined with Norwegian national registry data. Family patterns have fundamentally changed in Western countries in the second half of the 20th century, with more childlessness, partnership disruptions, cohabitation and “patchwork”-families (following (re-) partnering with own children and step-children). This project will study the joint effect of changing family and work dynamics on risk of ADRD.