U25005 An Age-Old Advantage. Healthy aging in two centuries of Swedish and Dutch long-lived families
type: Dataset
description: The aim of the project is to study long-lived families across multiple generations to understand the factors that contribute to healthy aging in a changing disease environment. The project examines how socioeconomic resources, lifestyle, and hereditary resilience influence the likelihood of living a long and healthy life. Using historical data, we identify families with a longevity advantage and track their development over time—from periods of high epidemic mortality to the rise of lifestyle-related diseases such as type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The project has three main questions: 1. How disease trajectories differ for members of long-lived families compared to the general population. 2. How their immunological resilience differs from that of the general population. 3. How the role of socioeconomic status and lifestyle-related diseases in healthy aging has changed over time.
contributor: van Dijk, Ingrid
  type: Person
  family name: van Dijk
  given name: Ingrid
creative work status: completed
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  in defined term set: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/dataset-status
  term code: COMPLETED
creator: Demographic Data Base (DDB), Centre for Demographic and Ageing Research (CEDAR)
date modified: 2025-01-01
date published: 2025-01-01
language: English
keywords: Social Sciences
  type: DefinedTerm
  term code: 5
keywords: Health Sciences
  type: DefinedTerm
  term code: 303
keywords: POPLINK
keywords: Church records
keywords: Health
keywords: Socioeconomics
keywords: Demographic data
publisher: Umeå University
version: 0

PropertyValue
property ID: DOI
value: 10.17197/U25005

English
type: Language
alternate name: eng

Umeå University
type: Organization