The Caribbean American Dementia and Aging Study: Protocol for a Population-Based Study of Older Adult Health and Dementia in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico
Published in BMC Geriatrics, 2025
Recommended citation: Liu MM, Llibre-Guerra J, Soria C, Li J, Zayas Llerena T, Rodriguez G, Acosta D, Jiménez Velázquez I, Llibre-Rodriguez JJ, Dow WH. The Caribbean American Dementia and Aging Study: protocol for a population-based study of older adult health and dementia in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. BMC Geriatr. 2025;25(1). doi:10.1186/s12877-025-06131-0 https://bmcgeriatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12877-025-06131-0
The Hispanic Caribbean region is rapidly aging but national population-based aging surveys are rare. The Caribbean American Dementia and Aging Study (CADAS) is a multi-purpose household study of aging with a particular focus on the life course determinants and consequences of health and dementia in three countries with many similarities but divergent recent histories: Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and Cuba. CADAS will survey population-based samples of adults ages 65 and over. In Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic these will be nationally representative samples of 1,500 adults each; the Cuban survey will include 1,500 adults from purposively selected urban and rural areas.
Liu MM, Llibre-Guerra J, Soria C, Li J, Zayas Llerena T, Rodriguez G, Acosta D, Jiménez Velázquez I, Llibre-Rodriguez JJ, Dow WH. The Caribbean American Dementia and Aging Study: protocol for a population-based study of older adult health and dementia in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. BMC Geriatr. 2025;25(1). doi:10.1186/s12877-025-06131-0