Organization: Baycrest Health Sciences

CABHI funds projects that help dementia patients, their caregivers

More than $7.6 million has been announced to support the development and validation testing of 53 new innovations seeking to help dementia patients and their caregivers, the Centre for Aging + Brain Health Innovation (CABHI) announced recently. Part of the funding is for a localized area alert system for missing persons with dementia, assessment of the…

Ontario investing $23.5M in new brain research centre

Baycrest Health Sciences in Toronto is receiving $23.5 million over five years from the Ontario government to establish the Canadian Centre for Aging and Brain Health Innovation. The centre will combine Baycrest’s brain research, clinical and educational programs into one national hub. Research will focus on developing made-in-Ontario technologies, products and resources that help people…