Frankenberg Lab

Univ of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill · United States

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NIH R01 · 2024

Long-term Effects of a Natural Disaster on Cognitive Aging, Dementia, Health and Well-being of Older Adults

Abstract This project will provide rigorous scientific evidence on the effects, over the long-term, of exposure to stressors on cognitive performance, physical and psychosocial health and well- being of older adults in Indonesia using extremely rich population-representative longitudinal data collected from about 12,000 older respondents (>40y) before and for 20 years after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, the Study of the Tsunami Aftermath and Recovery (STAR). The tsunami was a large and unanticipated natural disaster that devastated some coastal communities while other comparable, nearby communities were untouched because of the wave direction, land and seabed topography.…

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