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CLSA Research at CAG2023

The Canadian Association on Gerontology (CAG) is holding its 52nd Annual Scientific and Educational Meeting (CAG2023) in Toronto from October 26-28, 2023.

The theme of the 2023 conference is “Community Engaged Teaching, Research & Practice.”

As part of CAG2023, a symposium, “Innovative Research Using the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging: Emerging Scholars in the Spotlight,” will showcase CLSA research being undertaken by trainees. The session will be chaired by Dr. Esme Fuller-Thomson of the University of Toronto. Dr. Lauren Griffith of McMaster University will be the discussant. The symposium includes the following presentations:

Dr. Mélanie Lavasseur, CLSA site co-principal investigator at the Université de Sherbrooke, is also the discussant for a symposium entitled, “Social isolation and participation in older adults: Experiences from Canada, Germany & Spain.” As part of the symposium, she will give a presentation, Typology of social participation and network and self-rated health in older adults: Results from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (Mélanie Levasseur, Véronique Deslauriers).

In addition to the symposiums, more than a dozen poster and oral presentations that focus on CLSA findings will be presented at the conference. Read the full outline of CLSA research at CAG2023 here.

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