New at the CLSA

    2023
    Jun
    5 th

    Disadvantaged neighbourhoods and depression symptoms associated with premature aging

    Feeling depressed and living in a deprived urban neighbourhood could be making you age faster, according to a new study led by researchers at McMaster University. 

    2023
    May
    19 th

    CIHR Healthy Cities Research Initiative: Data Analysis Using Existing Databases and Cohorts

    The Healthy Cities Research Initiative (HCRI), funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), has launched the HCRI: Data Analysis Using Existing Databases and Cohorts to support research that leverages existing cohorts, data platforms and/or administrative datasets, including the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA), to improve the health, wellness and health equity of urban populations.

    2023
    May
    9 th

    Trainee Spotlight: Q&A with Durdana Khan

    Durdana Khan (she/her) is pursuing a doctoral degree from the Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences at York University. Her current doctoral research focuses on job factors, specifically working schedules and their long-term consequences on the health of the working population. More specifically, she is exploring the association of shift work on specific health outcomes among aging populations.

    2023
    Apr
    5 th

    Federal investment catalyzes CLSA research projects across the country

    Twenty-six research teams from across Canada have received a combined total of $1.8 million in federal funding to support analyses of data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA).

    2023
    Mar
    21 st

    Applications to the CLSA and considerations for access/use of Indigenous-identified data

    One of the guiding principles of the CLSA platform is to support research that benefits all people living in Canada. The CLSA is committed to ensuring all research involving First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples is conducted in a manner that respects Indigenous data governance principles and rights, including researcher responsibilities to uphold those same principles and rights in their research activities. Effective March 2023, researchers can submit applications to access Indigenous-identified data through Magnolia, the CLSA’s online data access application system. 

    2023
    Mar
    20 th

    Women working rotating shifts especially likely to be frail, York study finds

    A new study led by researchers at York University has found a link between shift work and frailty among middle-aged and older workers in Canada, especially for women on rotating shifts.

    2023
    Mar
    3 rd

    Trainee Spotlight: Q&A with Kate Hosford

    Kate Hosford (She/her) is a PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University. Her research interests and expertise lie in the domains of urban aging and healthy cities. This includes investigating questions related to older adults’ mobility, transportation solutions for an aging population, and urban environments that create healthy, sustainable, and equitable cities for people of all ages.

    2023
    Feb
    27 th

    Remembering Hélène Payette

    The CLSA was saddened to learn of the passing of our friend and colleague Hélène Payette on January 3, 2023. Hélène was the inaugural site investigator of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) at the Universitè of Sherbrooke, and played a significant role in the planning, implementation and launch of the CLSA. She served as theme leader of the lifestyle and nutrition component of the study, through which she shared her expertise as a research leader in older adult nutrition in Canada.

    2023
    Feb
    27 th

    Study identifies metabolites that influence common aging-linked disease

    Through a series of genome-wide association studies and Mendelian randomization (MR) analyses, a team of researchers at McGill University identified dozens of blood metabolites that influence a number of common disease and traits linked to aging, inflammation, and metabolism

    2023
    Feb
    22 nd

    One in four adults faced barriers to health care during the first year of the pandemic

    As the fourth year of the COVID-19 pandemic looms, a new study led by McMaster University researchers has found that one in four adults over age 50 experienced challenges accessing health-care services during the first year of the pandemic.