Puppy love Oak Bay couple open their home to trainee. Page A3
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Unlocking the secrets to healthy aging
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King of the court
f there are a few key secrets to aging well, a nationwide, two-decade long survey of Canadians might reveal those truths. Two-time cancer survivor Eric Carswell, 76, has his own rules of thumb – don’t drink alcohol and don’t smoke. “I don’t smoke or drink, and I used to do both, and there are health effects from both,” he offers. Carswell is Greater Victoria’s very first participant in what is called the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA), an unprecedented data gathering exercise that aims to plumb the granular details of the health and lifestyles of 50,000 Canadians, between the ages of 45 and 85, over 20 years. Edward Hill The Victoria resident Reporting led the way for randomly selected Greater Victoria residents, 331 so far, who have visited the region’s CLSA data collection centre, housed within Gorge Road Hospital. The poking and prodding is comprehensive – technicians conduct bone density scans, hearing, eye, cardiovascular, cognition, strength and balance tests. The centre takes blood and urine samples for study of biological markers for age related diseases. Researchers also gather detailed lifestyle and socio-economic information through interviews, and will use provincial health records to track medical issues that arise. The centre can test five or six people per day, at about three hours per person. Carswell laughs as he recalls that his visit in August took more than seven hours. CLSA staff had a few computer kinks to work out.
Oak Bay Bays forward Mat Hampton leaps to put in a rebound above the Claremont Spartans from left, Mason Loewen, Yvan Atemgova, Luke Collumbin and Alex Jordache, during the Island AAA Boys Basketball final at Mount Douglas secondary on Saturday night. Hampton was named Oak Bay’s player of the game, leading the Bays with 23 points in a 61-52 loss to the Spartans. See the story on A14.
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