Fifty thousand Canadians, followed for twenty years
Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging · A national study following roughly 50,000 people aged 45 to 85 since 2010.
Most of what is known about ageing comes from studies run elsewhere, on populations that do not look much like this one. The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging is the exception: tens of thousands of people across the country, assessed repeatedly over two decades, with physical measurements as well as questionnaires. It has produced hundreds of published papers on everything from hearing loss and social isolation to medication use and mobility.
What this changes here
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When we can cite a Canadian finding on a Canadian population, we do. The study also recruits, and taking part is a real contribution: the reason we can say anything useful about ageing in this country in twenty years is that people are being followed now.
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