Exploring the Geography of Cognitive Function and Social Support Availability

This webinar will explore the geographic dimensions of cognitive functioning and social support availability in the Canadian Longitudinal Support of Aging (CLSA). Focusing on the tracking cohort, a multi-scale spatial model is applied to estimate measures of global cognitive functioning and overall social support availability at the forward sortation area level. Clusters of cognitive functioning and overall social support are identified and approximately ten percent of all areas are found to have both low global cognitive functioning and low social support availability. Focusing on the comprehensive cohort for three Data Collection Sites, spatially interpolated maps of global cognitive functioning and overall social support availability are compared and the relationships between cognitive functioning, social support availability, and area-level census variables are explored. In conclusion, the challenges and limitations of analyzing spatial data in the CLSA are discussed.

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