Current KORA Studies
KORA-Age Network
The KORA-Age Consortium is part of the research program „Health in Old Age“ financed by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The consortium is led by Prof. Annette Peters (Institute of Epidemiology II) and Prof. Rolf Holle (Institute of Health Economics). Further participating partners are the Institute of Epidemiology I and the Institute of Developmental Genetics at the Helmholtz Center München, the Klinikum München Innenstadt, the Technical University of Munich, the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the University of Ulm. KORA-Age investigates the determinants and consequences of health status changes of older adults over a period of 3 years. In 2009 and 2012 several thousand participants aged 65 and older were interviewed and invited to a medical examination at the KORA study center in Augsburg. KORA-Age will contribute to a better scientific understanding of health in old age to improve health and community care and participation of senior citizens in society. A study overview was published in 2011 in the journal “Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie“.
More information about the research program „Health in Old Age“ of the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) can found here.