A PAN-CANADIAN CATALYST FOR BRAIN HEALTH INNOVATION

Driving research + innovation to transform the aging experience

Funding + enhanced deal flow.

Tailored acceleration and co-design services.

Actionable research with real-world applications.

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See how we're transforming the aging experience by driving the transformation of ideas into real-world impact.

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  • $218M+
    in funding directed toward advancing innovative projects
  • 586
    projects launched
  • $1.03B
    in follow-on funding secured by CABHI-affiliated companies
  • 198,000+
    Canadian older persons and caregivers engaged in CABHI projects
  • $87M+
    in jobs created and sustained
  • 431,000+
    people reached directly through CABHI-supported education, knowledge mobilization, and communication activities

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Shaping a future where aging is shaped by lived experience, powered by innovation, and driven by system-wide collaboration.

+ BUILDING INNOVATION CAPACITY

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

+ ACCELERATING INNOVATION

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

+ TRANSFORMING THE ECOSYSTEM

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

Our innovation themes guide our decision-making to ensure CABHI innovators and partnerships address the most pressing challenges older persons face, ultimately helping them live a life of purpose, fulfilment, and dignity. When assessing opportunities, we ensure alignment with our core innovation themes and our cross-cutting innovation themes.

Core themes

  • Aging at Home

    Enabling older persons 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 persons and people living with dementia.

  • Care Coordination + Navigation

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

  • Cognitive + Mental Health

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

  • Financial Health + Wellness

    Helping older persons remain f inancially 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 + 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.

Cross-cutting themes

  • Diversity, Accessibility, + 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 + Preventing Stigma and Elder Abuse

    Creating opportunities and programs for enhanced engagement and meaningful social connection for older persons, including intergenerational programs, to combat both ageism and stigma while promoting cognitive and mental health. Additionally, protecting older persons against elder abuse and unsafe relationships—particularly those living with cognitive decline or dementia.

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