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Driving innovation to transform the aging experience

Vision: A world where every older person lives with purpose, fulfillment, and dignity.

Mission: To drive the development and adoption of transformative aging and brain health innovations.

We’re building a future where aging is shaped by lived experience, powered by innovation, and driven by system-wide collaboration. 

To achieve this, CABHI focuses on three strategic objectives that guide everything we do:

1. Build Innovation Capacity

We foster innovation skill-building and collaboration among innovators, researchers, and end users, leading to the co-creation of impactful solutions.

2. Accelerate Innovation

We provide funding, mentorship, and connections to help promising ideas move faster—from concept to validation to adoption—in the aging and brain health space.

3. Transform the Ecosystem

We drive scientific breakthroughs by forging dynamic partnerships and mobilizing knowledge to influence practices and policies that reimagine the future of aging and brain health.

Innovation Themes

  • Aging at Home

    Enabling older adults and people living with dementia to live in the setting of their choice and remain active in their communities for as long as possible.

  • Caregiver Support

    Aiding or simplifying day-to-day caregiving responsibilities, providing education or training on caregiving topics, or helping caregivers maintain their own well-being while they care for older adults and people living with dementia.

  • Care Coordination and Navigation

    Helping older adults and people living with dementia and their caregivers navigate the healthcare system to access timely and appropriate care, while also supporting healthcare providers to align their practice with long-term care standards.

  • Cognitive and Mental Health

    Ensuring early detection of cognitive impairment or dementia in older adults; implementing preventative care approaches to maintain or enhance older adults’ brain health, including both cognitive and mental health supports; protecting the cognitive and mental health of seniors care and/or dementia healthcare providers and caregivers.

  • Financial Health and Wellness

    Helping older adults remain financially independent, stay safe in the workforce longer, seek later-life employment, prepare for retirement, plan for financing care, and prevent financial exploitation.

  • Women’s Brain Health and FemTech

    Addressing the unique aging and brain health challenges faced by women, including those related to hormonal changes, caregiving stress, and disparities in healthcare access, while leveraging FemTech to empower women to enhance their healthspan and maintain cognitive, emotional, and physical well-being as they age.

  • Diversity, Accessibility, and Health Equity

    Ensuring aging and brain health needs are addressed and solutions are accessible, for Indigenous, Black, and racially and culturally diverse communities; women; people living with disabilities; members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community; rural or Northern communities; or other vulnerable populations; and including issues of intersectionality.

  • Promoting Social Inclusion and Preventing Stigma and Elder Abuse

    Creating opportunities and programs for enhanced engagement and social connection for older persons, including intergenerational programs, to combat ageism and stigma and support strong cognitive and mental health in older persons. Protecting older persons, particularly those living with cognitive decline and dementia, against elder abuse and other unsafe relationships.

Latest Program Announcements

We awarded $2.6 million CAD in funding to 23 aging and brain health innovators
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EVENTS

Global Dementia Research + Innovation Showcase

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  • $218M+
    in funding directed toward advancing innovative projects
  • 586
    projects launched
  • $610M+
    in follow-on funding secured by CABHI-affiliated companies
  • 110,000+
    Canadian older persons and caregivers engaged in CABHI projects
  • $87M+
    in jobs created and sustained
  • 353,000+
    people reached directly through CABHI-supported education, knowledge mobilization, and communication activities

Our impact to date

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