Grant: Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging

The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) is Canada's first, population-based, comprehensive, national, sustainably funded research platform. The CLSA includes 51,338 participants, aged 45-85 at enrolment (2011-2015) who are being followed every three years until 2033 with a goal of providing important information on the health and well-being of Canadians as they age. The first follow-up was completed in 2018 and the second follow-up will be completed in 2021. From the time the first data were available to researchers in 2015, more than 340 research teams in Canada and around the world have requested these valuable data generating more than 150 peer-reviewed publications. In the next two follow-ups of data collection, additional information will be collected in several areas including sexual health, how people experience health care services and changes in mobility and vision. The CLSA team has developed modified methods of data collection to accommodate challenges that participants may face in physical health, mobility, and cognitive health to allow them to participate if they wish to continue in the study.