What do I have to do?

Participation in the CLSA involves two different groups. Your participation may involve a simple telephone interview only or you may have been contacted to be part of a home interview and a visit to a data collection site (DCS) in your area. 

Did we call you for a telephone interview?

If you are thinking of participating in telephone interview part of the study, then you will be involved in the following activities:

  • 30-minute or 60 minute telephone interview 

In summary, once you have agreed to participate, a trained CLSA interviewer will make arrangements with you to complete the interview, either immediately or at your earliest convenience. In either case, we will need a copy of your signed consent form to include you in the study.

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Follow Up

A CLSA interviewer will call you approximately a year and a half later for a short telephone interview (30 minutes) and to update any information. Telephone interviews that will take about 60 minutes will occur at 3-year intervals following the completion of the first interview. Your participation is voluntary and you can withdraw from the study at any time.

Do you want more information?

We will be posting our information package and consent forms on our website soon. Please revisit this section in July 2011 for more details.

Did we call you for a home interview and a visit to our data collection site?

If you are thinking of participating in this part of the study, you will be involved in the following activities:

  • Home interview (60 minutes) AND
  • Visit to the CLSA data collection site in your area (120 minutes)

Home Interview and DCS visit

After speaking with a CLSA interviewer about the study and making an informed decision about whether you would like to participate, you will be asked to:

  • Agree to a home interview every 3 years, where you will share information about your personal background, health history and lifestyle,
  • Visit a CLSA data collection site (DCS)  in your area every 3 years to have physical measures taken such as blood pressure and bone density measurements

The next two activities are not mandatory to participate in the CLSA but we encourage you agree to these part of the data collection as they are important to the overall understanding of healthy of the aging population.

It will be up to you to agree to:

  • Provide blood and urine samples that will be analyzed to learn about aspects of biology and the genetics of aging, health and disease
  • Allow researchers to link the information you provide to healthcare or other databases held by public institutions (for example, provincial Ministries of Health keep databases about your visits to doctors, hospital admissions, medication prescriptions or mortality records)

Follow Up

A CLSA interviewer will call you approximately a year and a half later for a short telephone interview (30 minutes) and to update any information. Visits to your home and DCS will occur at 3-year intervals following the completion of first in-home interviews. Your participation is voluntary and you can withdraw from the study at any time.

Do you want more information?

We will be posting our information package and consent forms on our website soon. Please revisit this section in July 2011 for more details.