MIDUS II Projects

In 2002, the National Institute on Aging awarded a grant to the Institute on Aging at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to carry out a longitudinal follow-up on all MIDUS respondents. The new initiative includes five research projects, which cover the following topics:

• Project 1 provides follow-up on the psychosocial, sociodemographic, and health variables assessed in MIDUS I;
• Project 2 provides follow-up on the daily diary study included in MIDUS I;
• Project 3 includes new cognitive assessments for the full MIDUS sample, plus longitudinal follow-up for the cognitive subsample from MIDUS I;
• Project 4 includes comprehensive biomarker assessments on a subsample of MIDUS respondents, collected at one of 3 General Clinical Research Centers around the country; and
• Project 5 includes neuroscience assessments on a subsample of respondents in the biomarker study.