Dr. Lindsay Wallace, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie, will be holding a seminar on an Update on the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)

The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) is a large, national research platform that follows more than 50,000 Canadians between the ages of 45 and 85 at baseline to better understand the aging process and its impacts on health, social, and economic factors over time.

Participants are followed for up to 20 years. Data are collected every 3 years through questionnaires (on health, lifestyle, social, and economic factors), in-depth physical assessments at data collection sites, and biological samples (like blood and urine) for biomarker and genetic analyses. Data collection happens across 11 sites in 7 provinces, making it one of the largest and most detailed aging studies in the world. In this presentation, Dr. Wallace will review the platform, including information on data availability, access, and research impact, as well as focus on its utility for student researchers, as well as the resources available to support its use.

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