HLTHAGE 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Longitudinal Study, Clsa
10 Apr 2016
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Central research issues in the study of aging. Cross-secional: studies many age groups at one point of ime. Longitudinal designs: studies a single group at two or more points at a ime. Time lag: looks at cohorts of individuals and follows over ime; diferent cohorts of the same age (ex. 70 year olds in 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990) Sequenial: looks at a series of cross-secional studies during a longer longitudinal study. Mixed methods: also known as triangulaion, refers to _________. The canadian insitutes of health research (cihr: the insitute of aging. Social sciences and humaniies research council (sshrc: the social and economic dimensions of an aging populaion (sedap) The canadian longitudinal study on aging (clsa) is a large, naional, long-term study that will follow approximately 50,000 men and women between the ages of 45 and 85 for at least 20 years htp://www. clsa-elcv. ca/about-study.
