NIH R01 · 2024
THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS STUDY OF RURAL AGING
Abstract This application proposes data collection to augment the longitudinal Great Smoky Mountains Study (GSMS) to create a national data resource, the Great Smoky Mountains Study of Rural Aging (GSMS-RA), for the study of early determinants of the aging experience in a rural context. This proposal builds on a study that is already distinctive: community-representative design; repeated in-depth assessments across multiple developmental pe- riods; high retention (82.5% interviewed at wave 12/age 30); longitudinal banked bloodspots available for assay- ing; longitudinal geospatial coding; large high-risk American Indian subsample; embedded quasi-experiment of income transfers; and…
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