ACRC and AGE-WELL partnership funds innovative new projects

Four transatlantic projects given the green light.

Four projects, on a variety of topics around ageing and health, have shared a funding pot of C$100,000. 

The "Innovation through Future Care Approaches in Healthy Aging” call aims to establish collaborative projects between researchers involved in AGE-WELL and ACRC. The long-term objective of these joint initiatives is to create sustainable outcomes and foster collaborations that evolve into scalable partnerships.

For a project to be successful it needed to address a challenge around ageing and health, and have joint primary investigators from the ACRC and a Canadian partner university under the AGE-WELL Network. There were a number of proposals on the shortlist, but these four just pipped an incredibly high-quality field:

• AI in Dementia Care: Challenges and Opportunities

Principal Investigators:

• • Associate Professor Babak Taati, PhD PEng, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto
  • Professor Subramanian Ramamoorthy, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

• Designing digital services for new models of senior care

Principal Investigators:

• • Professor Matt Ratto, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
  • Professor John Vines, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

• Music-based interventions to support dementia care

Principal Investigators:

• • Professor Andrew Sixsmith, Department of Gerontology, Simon Fraser University
  • Associate Professor Amy Clements-Cortes, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto
  • Professor Katie Overy, Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Research Centre & Department of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh
  • Professor Heather Wilkinson, Professor of Dementia Practice and Partnership, Advanced Care Research Centre, University of Edinburgh

• Digitally Enabled Technology for Older Adults Residing in Care Homes: Toward an Evaluation Framework

Principal Investigators:

• • Professor Jeffrey Jutai, PhD, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa
  • Professor Kathrin Cresswell, PhD, Centre for Medical Informatics, University of Edinburgh
  • Professor Susan Shenkin, MSc, MD, Advanced Care Research Centre, University of Edinburgh