Longitudinal Aging Study in India - Diagnostic Assessment of Dementia (LASI-DAD) Genomics Study: Monitoring the Health and Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19 : RTI COVID-India

Source: University of Southern California (USC). Published: 4/29/2020. LASI-DAD is the first and only nationally representative and publicly available dataset on late-life cognition and dementia in India. We have drawn a sample of over 4,000 community-residing older adults 60+ years of age from 19 states in India, representing 91.6% of India's ethnically diverse population. We will target one randomly selected adult male and one randomly selected adult female for each household. Study Parameters: The survey will draw on the 4,096 LASI-DAD households. We will target one randomly selected adult male and one randomly selected adult female for each household. The survey will take 15 minutes and will be administered via phone calls according to the following schedule: a first round, soon to be conducted in May 2020 and every two months thereafter for one year. We will randomly space interview slots over each two-month-long survey wave to facilitate time series analysis of responses to changes in the health and policy environment. As we plan to re-interview the same respondents over a one-year time period, we will monitor the course of the pandemic carefully and adapt the instrument, as needed, to ensure that it is filling high-priority knowledge gaps. At the same time, we aim to make changes judiciously to ensure that we have a high-quality time-series of central variables. India is an ethnically and linguistically diverse country. To ensure national representation and high-qu...
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