Baycrest Health Sciences & Baycrest Foundation Publications
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Baycrest Year in Review Leading the world in better aging Building on its proud and storied history and guided by a new and visionary strategic plan, Baycrest is embarking on its most ambitious and far-reaching endeavour ever, one that will see the organization transform the experience of aging for millions of people in Canada and across the globe. We see a worldwide aging society not just as a health-care policy challenge but as an opportunity to improve and enhance human health in ways we could not have imagined even a decade ago. For that reason, despite financial headwinds that threatened to blow us off course, we pressed forward last year with our goal of becoming the preeminent global innovator for brain health — the go to place for developing, validating and providing new solutions to the challenges of aging. To that end, we continued to build on our strengths, including our unparalleled continuum of care, world-leading neuroscience, Dr. William Reichman (left) and Dr. Anthony Melman leadership in training geriatric care specialists, government and community partnerships, loyal donor support, and a novel busi- mental health programs that will serve as a model for Ontario ness collaboration for translating our science into products and and beyond. programs that support brain health across the lifespan. Knowing that preventing or delaying memory and cognitive deWe launched the Partnership in Sustainable Care for the Aging cline is a key factor for aging well, Baycrest partnered with MaRS, Population with the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Canada's premier innovation centre, and put its substantial Care. The Ministry provided us with an annual investment com- cognitive science reputation behind a new for-profit company, mencing at a level of $8.9 million, thereby recognizing Bay- Cogniciti. The new enterprise is an exciting step in the evolution crest's unique role in developing innovative aging, cognition and of the Baycrest Centre for Brain Fitness, which is supported by a 2 Baycrest and baycrest foundation Annual Report 2009 | 2010