Data · dataset · 2026
SwissDEM – Community-dwelling sample, Ticino and Zurich
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This dataset includes data from the SwissDEM study collected among community-dwelling older adults (aged 65+) in the Canton of Ticino (n=392) and the Canton of Zurich (n=665), for a total of 1,057 participants.
Description
Data were collected through structured face-to-face interviews with participants and, for each participant, an informant (a family member or close acquaintance), covering cognitive function (CSI-D, CERAD), depressive symptoms (EURO-D), disability (WHODAS 2.0), socioeconomic circumstances, health service use, social networks, and caregiving arrangements.
The dataset also includes the derived variables of the brief 10/66 dementia diagnostic algorithm. The dataset has been de-identified: direct identifiers (names of interviewers, participants, and informants; full date of birth) have been removed prior to deposit. This dataset covers community-dwelling participants only.
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A related nursing home sample was collected in the Canton of Ticino as part of a separate research initiative led by another institute. As that data falls outside the SwissDEM team's remit, it is not included here and is not currently planned for deposit on SWISSUbase. Users should therefore be aware that any prevalence or burden estimates derived from secondary analyses of this dataset reflect the community-dwelling population only, and cannot be extrapolated to older adults living in institutional care settings.
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Where it is published
- DOI doi.org/10.48573/re6k-h454 ↗
DOI / persistent id · from swissubase ch
Catalogue records · 1
- OAI-PMH record swissubase.ch/oai-pmh/v1/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier… ↗
metadata API · from swissubase ch
Topics
- From keywords
- Earth & Environmental Science · Mathematics & Statistics · Medicine & Health · Psychology & Behavioral Science · Social Science
- Inferred from text
- Demography 74%
Provenance · 1 source records, 11 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWISSUbase | oai:swissubase.ch:656e7a99-b1d6-4ea8-ab82-ee3e1e3aca8b | 4 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| concepts[field].anzsrc:group:4403 | enrichment · swissubase ch | taxonomy-embedding@1.1.0 | title+keywords+description (74%) |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · swissubase ch | connector:swissubase_ch@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:mathematics-statistics | mapping · swissubase ch | connector:swissubase_ch@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:medicine-health | mapping · swissubase ch | connector:swissubase_ch@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:psychology-behavioral | mapping · swissubase ch | connector:swissubase_ch@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:social-science | mapping · swissubase ch | connector:swissubase_ch@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · swissubase ch | connector:swissubase_ch@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/description |
| license_text | source · swissubase ch | connector:swissubase_ch@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · swissubase ch | connector:swissubase_ch@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · swissubase ch | connector:swissubase_ch@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · swissubase ch | connector:swissubase_ch@1.0.0 | /metadata/dc/title |