


Hofer is Director of the Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health, Professor of Psychology, and holds the Harald Mohr, M.D. Scott Hofer Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Victoria

IALSA has also provided core funding for the development of research tools central to the Maelstrom research catalogue ( ), facilitating metadata discoverability and harmonization projects.ĭr. IALSA studies include research on change in cognitive and physical capabilities, health, personality, and well-being along the lifespan. Longitudinal studies also provide a basis for the early detection of change related to neurodegenerative disorder and the idetification of periods in the lifespan when interventions will potentially have their greatest impact. The study of aging and health-related change demands an integrative developmental framework, involving interdisciplinary collaborations and advanced methodological approaches to understand how and why individuals change with age, in both normative and idiosyncratic ways. The Integrative Analysis of Longitudinal Studies of Aging (IALSA) network is an international collaboration for reproducible longitudinal research on life course studies.
