Piedmont Health Surveys of the Elderly, 1984-1996

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Duke University. Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development.
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Includes materials pertaining to the Established Populations Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly (EPESE), which was a large multi-site research program funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA). Four universities were selected as sites for comprehensive longitudinal epidemiologic studies of population-based samples of adults age 65 and older at baseline. Duke University was one of the four sites. Duke's EPESE program was funded by 3 consecutive awards. The first two award were contracts with the NIA; the third was via a R01. Dr. Dan Blazer was the principal investigator (PI) on all three awards. Linda K. George, PhD was a co-PI. The EPESE program in general and the Duke EPESE in particular were significant contributions to aging research nationally and internationally/ A large portion of the in-home interview data from all four sites were released into the public domain and offered at no cost to interested investigators. The Duke EPESE received a disproportionate share of external users because it was the only site that had sufficient numbers of African Americans in the sample to permit reliable estimates of black-white differences. Duke investigators published more than 100 scientific articles using the Duke EPESE data. During the later years of data collection, the MacArthur Foundation funded a "piggyback" study in which additional data were obtained from a subset of Duke EPESE participants. Blazer was the PI for the MacArthur study. George was not directly involved. Materials date from 1984 to 1996.

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