New at the CLSA

2023
May
18 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.

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.

2023
Feb
9 th

The weight of the COVID-19 pandemic: Did older adults with obesity experience greater stress during the first year of COVID?

Adults over 50 living with obesity were more likely to experience stressors during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic despite being less likely to perceive the pandemic’s consequences as negative, says a McMaster University-led study.