New at the CLSA

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.

2023
Jan
31 st

Greater adversity in childhood linked to premature aging in midlife and beyond

Exposure to a greater number of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) may accelerate biological aging in older adults, a McMaster University study has found. The research was published online in Aging Cell.

2023
Jan
5 th

Middle-aged adults with frailty had more challenges accessing healthcare in pandemic

Middle-aged adults living with frailty in the community were more likely to suffer challenges accessing healthcare during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic than their older counterparts.

2022
Dec
23 rd

The CLSA National Coordinating Centre will be closed from December 24, 2022 to January 3, 2023 inclusive. We look forward to connecting with you in the new year.

The CLSA National Coordinating Centre will be closed from December 24, 2022 to January 3, 2023 inclusive. We look forward to connecting with you in the new year.
2022
Dec
5 th

One in ten adults aged 65 and over experience some form of elder abuse each year in Canada

A recent study using data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) found one in ten adults aged 65 and older experience some form of elder abuse each year in Canada. The research, published online in Nature Aging, was led by Dr. David Burnes, an associate professor at the University of Toronto’s Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work.

2022
Nov
25 th

Participant Spotlight: Mary

I think a person's life is what you make of it. You can sit there and whine about the little things that go wrong, or the big things that go wrong. You can sit there and wring your hands over your mistakes. And I've made plenty. But do you have to sort of say, well, this has happened you what you did was the wrong decision. And you pick up the pieces and you keep on going.

 

2022
Nov
24 th

Health System Impact Fellow leveraging CLSA to support healthy aging programming in the seniors’ services sector

Kate Hosford, a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) at Simon Fraser University, was named as a 2022 Health System Impact Fellow by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. She is one of 18 PhD students in the country to receive this prestigious award. During this fellowship, Hosford will focus on creating a process that will allow community-based organizations to utilize data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA). She hopes that empowering organizations with evidence-based data will allow organizations within the seniors’ services sector to advocate for and deliver effective programming for older adults across BC. 

2022
Nov
24 th

1 in 8 older adults experienced depression for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic

A new, large-scale study of more than 20,000 older adults in Canada found that approximately 1 in 8 older adults developed depression for the first time during the pandemic.

2022
Nov
4 th

Study shows link between diabetes and early menopause

According to new research using data from over 11,000 female participants in the CLSA, an early age diagnosis of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes is associated with women developing menopause early.

2022
Nov
2 nd

Vaccine uptake remains low among at-risk Canadians

Q&A with CLSA researcher and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health at McGill University, Giorgia Sulis on vaccine hesitancy