Active Aging Training (AAT) Registration Form

This study validates a multi-domain active aging program among White older adults in Canada. It is funded through a SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant and an Age-Well and Canadian Frailty Network Grant. This study has been reviewed and approved by the Toronto Metropolitan University Research Ethics board [REB 2023-187], and will serve as Cassandra Skrotzki’s doctoral dissertation project. It includes four phases: pretest, training (8 sessions over 4 weeks), posttest, and 1-month follow-up, administered in small groups through synchronized Zoom meetings. Each outcome evaluation session will take around 1.5 – 2 hours. The training includes 8 online training sessions (1.5 hours each, twice a week) delivered and recorded on Zoom, and 8 offline practice sessions completed on your own. The outcome and/or training tasks include physical, social, and cognitive elements, where you will learn and engage in activities that contribute to healthy and active aging. The entire process will take around 30 hours if you participate in all training, practice, and evaluation sessions. Our community partners include Cogniciti and CogniFit Research,  which provide technical support in data collection and training tasks.

This study involves tasks that need to be completed online on your own computer, thus basic knowledge/skills in using computers and attending Zoom meetings is required. We will recruit 120 participants who meet the following criteria:

  1. Aged 65 or over with no mobility issues
  2. White Canadian citizen
  3. Can speak, read and write English
  4. Having access to a device that has internet and allows Zoom meeting attendance (Computer preferred)

Participation is completely voluntary and you can withdraw at any point. Participants will be compensated up to $60 as an honorarium. You will receive $15 for pretest, $15 each for posttest and 1-month follow-up, and a bonus of $15 for those who successfully complete all training/practice sessions. Given the group testing format, your participation is not anonymous. Any revealed personal identity will be kept confidential within the group/session, not shared outside, or in any presentations or publications. All research data will be de-identified, coded by subject numbers, saved in a passcode-protected Cognitive Aging Laboratory server at TMU, and only accessible to the research team.

If you have any questions, please email us at aging.cal@torontomu.ca, thank you!

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Do you agree to participate in this study? (by clicking “agree” below, you are providing your full informed consent to participate in this study)

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Do you agree for researchers to audio and/or video record all training sessions in this study?

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Do you agree that we can keep your de-identified data for future data analysis, and openly accessible to qualified researchers as per open science practices?  

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Can we contact you for follow-up studies?

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This training program requires signing up to services such as Google Classroom, are you okay with using your personal email to sign up these services?
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Which area do you live in the Greater Toronto Area? (optional)
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The training program will be carried out online via zoom. But some evaluation components (such as the pre-test, post-test and follow-up) requires access to a computer. What electronic device do you plan to use for this training program and the evaluation? *
Prior to the training session, we will need to schedule you for an online evaluation session over zoom. When are you available during the week of May 20th? Please select all possible times that you will be available. *
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Your weekly availability for the training (please select all the time slots that you are available during the months of May through July this year).
*The timeslots below are based on EDT (Toronto time)

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To maintain rigor in program design, we will only allow one person per family/household. 
If your partner or roommate would also like to sign up for the training program, they can be enrolled in the next round of training. If they're willing to wait for the next round, please enter their name below. If not, please write "None" below.
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Please provide your partner or roommate's contact information (email or phone number) below to recruit them for this study.
Thank you for completing the registration form. We will confirm the information you've entered here with you at the pre-training session. Only individuals who match all inclusion criteria will be contacted to join the study.
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