Functional Social Support and Memory: A Prospective Analysis of the CLSA Comprehensive Cohort
Channel: Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA/ÉLCV)
Date: 2021-12-20

Perceived availability of support from others, or functional social support (FSS), is reported to delay memory decline via biological and psychological pathways. In this webinar, Samantha Yoo, a PhD student at the University of Ottawa, discusses findings from a research project that investigated the association between FSS and memory using baseline and three-year follow-up data from the comprehensive cohort of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA).
 
Samantha Yoo is a PhD student in Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa, researching public health effects of folate and vitamin B12 deficiency at a global level and assessing relevant public health policies. She also works as a data analyst in the Genetics & Genome Biology program at the SickKids Research Institute. Her research interests include epidemiological methods, causal models, evidence synthesis, and chronic disease epidemiology.