CABHI is actively developing national and international partnerships with organizations that are aligned with the World Health Organization’s global dementia strategy, to amplify Canada’s role in shaping the evolution and care of seniors living with dementia around the world. We are focusing initially on select countries facing similar dementia-care challenges and with partners within these countries that have the potential to have a significant impact on care for our senior population, and generate economic growth for Ontario and Canada.
Israel Innovation Authority
A special collaboration between lead partner Baycrest Health Sciences, CABHI, and the Israel Innovation Authority was announced in May 2016. This multi-year partnership agreement will bring Israeli innovations in seniors’ care to Baycrest and CABHI affiliated organizations.
A new CABHI program, the Solutions Validation (SV) program, will connect Israeli innovators with North American seniors’ care organizations to test, validate and commercially disseminate their brain health technologies in the North American marketplace. Both our partners and the seniors we serve will benefit from the opportunity to access expertly selected solutions, evaluate their effectiveness, and adopt and implement them as soon as possible. The Israel Innovation Authority, long recognized for its excellence in technology innovation, will gain access to a larger group of seniors to validate promising ideas or to adopt them upon commercialization.
Following our first call for innovation, we received six expressions of interest from Israeli companies, of which four were invited to submit full applications. Funding for one project will be announced in 2017. The Baycrest Foundation is currently fundraising for a second project and plans to support up to two projects per year for four years.