New at the CLSA

    2024
    Jun
    13 th

    LGBTQ+ research using the CLSA platform

    June is Pride Month. The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) celebrates participants, researchers, staff, and supporters who identify as 2SLGBTQ+ and who have contributed to the on-going success of the CLSA as a national research platform on health and aging. The CLSA is an important scientific resource that can be used to address the health and well-being of individuals from midlife to older age who identify as 2SLGBTQ+.

    2024
    May
    28 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 the use of existing survey, administrative and linked datasets, including the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA). The funding opportunity supports  research that leverages existing data to improve the health, wellness and health equity of urban populations.

    2024
    May
    27 th

    Trainee Spotlight: Q&A with Carrie Shorey

    Carrie Shorey is a PhD Candidate in the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo. Her research focuses on biopsychosocial risk factors for cognitive decline in vulnerable groups, particularly immigrant and non-immigrant aging Canadians.

    2024
    May
    16 th

    Speech, Hearing & Vision Health Month

    May is Hearing and Speech Month and Vision Health Month in Canada. The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) is an important scientific resource that includes data that can be used to examine the health and well-being of individuals from midlife to older age – including hearing, speech, and vision health.

    2024
    Apr
    11 th

    Trainee Spotlight: Q&A with Jhalok Ronjon Talukdar

    Jhalok Ronjan Talukdar a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anesthesia and the Department of Health Research Methodology, Evidence and Impact (HEI) at McMaster University. His research interests include healthy aging trajectories, more specifically the effects of fat composition on cognitive frailty dimensions. 

    2024
    Apr
    3 rd

    CIHR invests $2.3M in CLSA research projects across the country

    Thirty-three research teams from across Canada have received a combined total of nearly $2.3 million in federal funding to support analyses of longitudinal data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA).

    2024
    Mar
    7 th

    Update on the Étude longitudinale canadienne sur le vieillissement (ÉLCV)

    This 90-minute webinar, presented in French, will provide an update on CLSA research activities and the latest study findings. All are welcome to attend. 

    2024
    Jan
    12 th

    Prestigious Dhole-Eddlestone Memorial Prize awarded to CLSA scientific paper enabling early detection of age-related functional decline

    A team of McMaster University researchers has been awarded the prestigious Dhole-Eddlestone Memorial Prize for a research paper that used data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) to develop performance charts – similar to the World Health Organization’s child growth charts – that can be used to identify mid- to late-life adults with low physical function.

    2023
    Dec
    19 th

    National Coordinating Centre closed December 23, 2023 – January 2, 2024

    The National Coordinating Centre (NCC) will be closed for the holidays from December 23, 2023, until January 2, 2024.

    2023
    Dec
    7 th

    CLSA-HDRN Canada collaboration enables linkage of CLSA data with provincial health-care registries to facilitate research and health-care policy making in Canada

    Beginning in 2024, it is anticipated that researchers will be able to apply to access linked CLSA cohort data at provincial data centres in British Columbia, Ontario, and New Brunswick as per data access policies of participating data centres and the CLSA. The linkage of longitudinal CLSA data with multiregional administrative health data offers an unparalleled opportunity to explore the intersection between aging and health-care utilization.