Index of Variables and Domains
of the Central Project Coordination Unit

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Contact Protocol (by Research Assistants)

• Participant status for Intake Assesment (by management of Central Project Coordination)
  • Dropout due to refusal
  • Dropout due to termination of participation
  • Participant status

Final Questionnaire

• Life satisfaction
• Aging satisfaction
• Judgements on domain-specific capacities / activity
• Future optimism / orientation
• Control / coping

Multidisciplinary Intake Assessment

• Central Project Coordination:
  • Age
  • Background and grouping variables
  • Gender
  • Participation status
  • Time intervals:
    • Time intervals between measurement occasions
    • Time intervals within measurement occasions (duration of data collection)
• Internal Medicine / Geriatrics and Dentistry:
  • Activities of daily living (ADL):
    • Basic activities (short)
    • Extended ADL scale
    • Care category
    • Assistance needs
  • Constitution:
    • Height (subjective)
    • Weight (subjective)
    • Weigth changes
    • Wrist size
    • Body-mass-index
  • Dentistry:
    • Dental appointments
    • Dental status
  • Endurance limits
    • Maximal walking distance
  • Grip strength
    • Grip strength (constructs)
  • Medication:
    • Evaluation of medication at Time 1
    • Medication history at Time 1
    • Longitudinal medication history from Time 2 to Time 4
    • Number of prescribed drugs
  • Mobility
  • Sensory functions:
    • Audiometry
    • Hearing
    • Hearing (constructs)
    • Sensory functions (observations)
    • Vision (constructs)
    • Visual acuity (eye chart)
    • Visual acuity at a distance
    • Visual acuity at near (reading chart)
  • Sleep
  • Subjective health status
  • Technical aids
    • Walking aid
    • Wheelchair
• Psychiatry:
  • Dementia
    • Short Mini-Mental State
  • Depression
    • Depression (DSM-III-R)
    • Depressivity (Philadelphia Geriatric Center Morale Scale)
  • Everyday competence (Yesterday-Interview)
    • Activities (Yesterday-Interview)
    • Social contact (Yesterday-Interview)
  • Medication (psychiatric)
  • Mental health (subjective)
  • Psychiatric treatment
• Psychology:
  • Control beliefs
  • Everyday competence (subjective)
  • Intellectual abilities
    • Digits backwards
    • Fluency
    • Perceptual speed
  • Life events
  • Loneliness
  • SOC (selection, optimization and compensation)
  • Social relations
    • Very close persons
    • Loss of very close persons
  • Well-being
    • Philadelphia Geriatric Center Morale Scale (PGCMS)
    • Best things in life
• Sociology / Social Policy:
  • Activities
  • Children
  • Economic situation
  • Education
  • Marriage
  • Occupational career
  • Partnership
  • Politics / voting behavior
  • Residential situation
  • Social security
  • Sociodemographic characteristics

Mortality Data

Observation Protocol: Observations by Research Assistants in the Field

• General information
• Settings
  • Observed settings
  • Behavior and speech of participants
• Frailty and health risk factors
• Dementia
• Housing conditions and residential environment
• Ability to consent and practicability 

Session Protocols (by Research Assistants)

• Temporal and local conditions
• Presence of other persons
• Change in living conditions
• Participant status and consent

Short Initial Assessment (Refusers Questionnaire)

• Short Initial Assessment/Refuser Questionnaire

Time Intervals Between and Within Measurement Occasions

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