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Studying healthy older adults

If the population you want to study is healthy older adults, this is a great place to start. This comprehensive MRC report provides an overview of key cognitive abilities, and the tests used to assess them. It's also particularly useful for describing some of the practicalities to consider if you are developing a cognitive assessment.

Guidelines for biomarkers of healthy ageing

Please note that the section on ‘Biomarkers of cognitive function’ (pages 21-25) and Appendices 4-6 (pages 70-83) are particularly useful.

A proposed panel of biomarkers of healthy ageing

This brief version of the MRC report is published in BMC Medicine.

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