How to improve dementia support in Canada in 2023

In September 2022, the Alzheimer Society of Canada launched a major study that included a long list of ways to improve dementia risk reduction and dementia care nationwide.

Now, for the January 2023 edition of Dementia Talks! Canada, we chat with a variety of experts about ways they’d like to see dementia support improve over the next 12 months.

In this Dementia Talk, we discuss:

- How established and emerging researchers see opportunities for positive change
- How brain health projects designed to reach Canadians who speak multiple languages are growing
- How to connect with the Alzheimer Society’s nationwide First Link program, which provides free, evidence-based dementia help to folks across the country
- What it's like to provide long-distance care, and how that can be better supported

Our speakers for this Dementia Talk include:

Dr. Lillian Hung, Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia School of Nursing, Clinician Scientist at the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Founder of the Innovation in Dementia and Aging Lab (or IDEA Lab) at the University of British Columbia

Adebusola (Busola) Adekoya, Registered Nurse and a PhD candidate in the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo

Sybil Braganza, Co-ordinator of the Ethno-cultural Seniors Project at the Social Planning Council of Ottawa

Catherine Macpherson, Caregiver in Montreal and Halifax

Melody Neufeld, Client Services Team Manager for Central and Northern Saskatchewan at the Alzheimer Society of Saskatchewan

Moderator: Sabine Antonescu, Senior Program Manager at Brain Canada

Dementia Talks! Canada is produced by Alzheimer Society of Canada in partnership with Brain Canada. To view past talks in this series, visit    / alzheimercanada   or alzheimer.ca/Talks.