Exploring the patterns and impacts of diet and nutrition among older adults in the CLSA
Channel: Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA/ÉLCV)
Date: 2021-12-06

Abstract:
This webinar showcases findings from two studies that explored patterns and impacts of diet and nutrition in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) cohort. The first study, led by Dr. Jaclyn Hurley of York University, is a cross-sectional analysis of the CLSA baseline data that examined whether aspects of diet and nutrition risk ‘explain variance ’ in physical capacity and general health, after controlling for covariates, in Canadian adults with osteoarthritis. The second study, led by Dr. Rachel Murphy of the University of British Columbia (UBC), aimed to characterize dietary patterns among ‘super-seniors’ within the Canadian Healthy Aging Study in comparison to participants aged 65-86 in the CLSA who completed the same 36-item food frequency questionnaire. Dietary patterns were identified with principal component analysis.

Dr. Jaclyn Hurley is an assistant professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science at York University. Her area of expertise is musculoskeletal biomechanics, and her research interests include investigating mechanisms of musculoskeletal injury and developing effective exercise rehabilitation strategies for chronic musculoskeletal conditions that commonly accompany age, including osteoarthritis and rotator cuff pathologies.

Dr. Rachel Murphy is a scientist in Cancer Control Research at BC Cancer and an assistant professor in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC. She holds a PhD in nutrition and metabolism and completed postdoctoral training in epidemiology at the National Institutes of Health. Her research program is focused on the role of nutrition in the prevention and control of cancer and the etiology underlying lifestyle-cancer relationships.