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The data of the Berlin Aging Study (BASE) are now available to researchers worldwide at the Research Data Center of the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID). One of the most extensive gerontological data sets has thereby been opened for new scientific analyses.
The Berlin Aging Study was carried out by the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Freie Universität Berlin, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in cooperation with partners from geriatrics, psychology, psychiatry, and the social sciences. Between 1990 and 1993, 516 Berliners aged between 70 and over 100 years were examined intensively. The BASE researchers carried out repeated follow-up measurements until 2019.
The data set comprises up to 10,000 variables per person and provides information about participants’ health, life satisfaction, social networks, and economic situation. Since the early 1990s, more than 500 academic articles based on the BASE data have been published. Furthermore, the data influenced projects such as the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II) and became part of the European Lifebrain consortium.
The processed and integrated BASE data are now available at the ZPID Research Data Center in a standardized and well-documented format and allow new analysis opportunities.
“The Berlin Aging Study is a most valuable asset for research on aging,” says Ulman Lindenberger, Director of the Center for Lifespan Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. „So far only parts of the data have been analyzed. Many questions can still be answered with these data.“
https://leibniz-psychology.org/en/news/detail/treasure-trove-of-data-on-aging-pu...
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