NIH R01 · 2025
Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study (CRELES): Wave 4
Project Summary / Abstract Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study (CRELES): Wave 4 Costa Rica has been long recognized as an important country to study based on its achievement of “good health at low cost.” Despite being a middle-income country, its life expectancy is among the highest in Latin America and higher than many high-income countries such as the United States, with unusually low mortality at older ages. From 2005-2012 we conducted two to three longitudinal interviews of Costa Ricans ages 55+ as part of the nationally representative Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study (CRELES). We now propose a long-term follow-up interview of this panel. Based on tracking using…
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