The Victoria Longitudinal Study (VLS) is a large-scale and multi-faceted investigation of human aging. The VLS examines actual changes in numerous aspects of health and medications, memory and cognition, neuropsychological status, biological and sensory functioning, neurological and cognitive impairment, as well as adaptivity and successful aging. It operates in two favourable sites in western Canada. The overall research, administrative, and lab headquarters of the VLS are in beautiful and booming Edmonton, the capital city of the Province of Alberta. Our dedicated participants regularly visit our continually active VLS lab in lovely Victoria, on Vancouver Island, off the coast of the Province of British Columbia.

Since its inception in the late 1980s, the VLS has been continuously funded by the U.S. National Institute on Aging, one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Dr. Roger A. Dixon has been Director and Principal Investigator of the VLS since 1994/95. Since 2002, Dr. Dixon has received two consecutive terms of NIH MERIT Award funding (2002-2007; 2007-2012) for the VLS.

For further information on VLS Director, Dr. Dixon, please visit his website

For further information on the VLS, please visit the pages identified below.

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