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    The LIFE-Adult-Study: objectives and design of a population-based cohort study with 10,000 deeply phenotyped adults in Germany

    The LIFE-Adult-Study is a population-based cohort study, which has recently completed the baseline examination of 10,000 randomly selected participants from Leipzig, a major city with 550,000 inhabitants in th...

    Markus Loeffler, Christoph Engel, Peter Ahnert, Dorothee Alfermann in BMC Public Health (2015)

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    Growing old at home – A randomized controlled trial to investigate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of preventive home visits to reduce nursing home admissions: study protocol [NCT00644826]

    Regarding demographic changes in Germany it can be assumed that the number of elderly and the resulting need for long term care is increasing in the near future. It is not only an individual's interest but als...

    Steffen Fleischer, Gudrun Roling, Katrin Beutner, Stephanie Hanns in BMC Public Health (2008)