Great day! Congrats to our very own Komal Aryal for winning an award.

The province has tightened masking rules in long-term care. Learn more from experts like Juravinski Research Institute-funded researchers Dawn Bowdish and Andrew Costa. Full story ⬇️ #JuravinskiLegacy | McMaster Health Sciences The Research Institute of St. Joe's Hamilton o.canada.com/news/local-new…

#ResearchRewind: Residents of assisted living facilities have the highest rates of ED visits, hospital admissions & alternate levels of care days, relative to community-dwelling older adults ices.on.ca/publications/j… Derek Manis, PhD, MHSc Paula Rochon Andrew Costa JAMDA

Great 2 days at the RSC // SRC G7 summit on aging with this McMaster University crew and our awesome trainees Stuart Phillips (he/him) Rebecca Ganann Andrew Costa parminder raina MIRA McMaster Mac RS Grad Program and more

Cassandra D’Amore Steph Saunders Maggie MacNeil Joanna Sinn, PhD @rebecccacorreia all did a fabulous job synthesizing policy recommendations from the working groups

🎓Come for a seminar on medical care & congregate-living older adults by Dr. Paul Katz of FSU College of Medicine, co-editor-in-chief of JAMDA 📚Stay for a trainee research publishing workshop, moderated by Andrew Costa To register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… 🤝 St. Joe's Centre for Integrated Care & Geras Centre for Aging Research

Congratulations, team, on your new article published in The Journal of Geriatric Emergency Medicine. "Older adults visit emergency departments more than any other age group." Read here for healthcare trajectories #OlderAdults experience: rb.gy/2dgw7a

Our next #CLSAWebinar will explore how researchers can access linked CLSA data through provincial data centres. Join Carmen La (HDRN Canada - RRDS Canada), Lindsey Gilbert of (NB-IRDT) & CLSA's Andrew Costa & Sophie Hogeveen, PhD on January 17 at 🕛 To register: ow.ly/7Awg50Qok2b

Join us Wednesday at noon for the next #CLSAWebinar, with HDRN Canada - RRDS Canada Carmen La, NB-IRDT's Lindsey Gilbert & Andrew Costa & Sophie Hogeveen, PhD of the CLSA, exploring CLSA data linkage with healthcare databases & the process for access. To register: ow.ly/7Awg50Qok2b

In case you missed it! Last week's CLSA Webinar and presentation slides are now available for viewing. The presentation, with associate scientific director of CLSA and Collaborative member, Andrew Costa, provides an overview of the CLSA’s national dataset, introduces HDRN

Dr. Ryan Strum defends his thesis “ the development and validation of the emergency department avoidability classification”. 🎉 Thanks to Lauren Griffith, Walter Tavares Andrew Worster, and defence chair Meredith Vanstone . This work upends the use of other classifications that are

A CITF-funded study led by Andrew Costa McMaster University found that the frailty status of long-term care residents did not affect serum neutralizing antibodies against either the ancestral or Omicron strain of SARS-CoV-2. ow.ly/4bl050QPboG

Five exceptional researchers from the Faculty of Health Sciences have been awarded new and renewed Canada Research Chairs. Congratulations to Andrew Costa, P.J. Devereaux, Dr. Lindsay Kalan 🇨🇦, Debisvaccinated 💉😷Sloboda 🇺🇦 Meredith Vanstone on this prestigious achievement! ow.ly/AMN550QSuyA

Interested in the intersections between #aging & #HealthCare use? Learn about our collaborative initiative to link Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) #data w. #AdminData from #HDRNCanada data centres in this webinar feat. Lindsey Gilbert/ NB-IRDT & Andrew Costa! ➡️ bit.ly/DSMar2024

New research today: ❗️Post-Covid growth rates in paramedic 911 calls and ED transports have surpassed pre-pandemic levels tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Thanks to Brent McLeod @DrShawnMondoux @millerpaulq Andrew Costa Support from The Research Institute of St. Joe's Hamilton

CLSA Scientific Director Andrew Costa was interviewed by National Association of Federal Retirees for a story on centenarians in their latest issue of Sage Magazine. He explains that the reason people live longer is between 30-40% genetic and the vast majority is lifestyle. 🔗: ow.ly/Fwz350SENvV

Just published online first - Prevalence and population attributable fractions of potentially modifiable risk factors for dementia in Canada: A cross-sectional analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (Susan Kirkland, Andrew Costa et al.) ow.ly/YRWy50SLgFc