Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementia Among the Global Poor

By leveraging forthcoming data collection for the Malawi Longitudinal Study of Families and Health (MLSFH) Kohler and Coe aim to create an exceptional longitudinal & sibling resource for studying Alzheimer Disease and Related Dementia (ADRD) in a low-income context for which life-course data on ADRD rarely exist. This project strengthens global aging research at the Population Aging and Research Center (PARC) by: (1) enrolling 1,000 siblings of existing elderly MLSFH respondents and collecting detailed data on ADRD risk, (2) analyzing this unique sibling sample of older adults in a low-income context to identify the distinctive determinants of ADRD risk in a population exposed to extensive life-course adversity, and (3) creating a PARC network of researchers in global ADRD research.