18 BAYCREST | 2024
The Kimel Family Centre for
Brain Health and Wellness
Our centre is where people age 50+
prioritize their brain health. A personal
assessment determines individual risks
for developing dementia. Members are
then "prescribed" a wellness and lifestyle
plan to help reduce specific risk factors.
This is a unique and remarkable
undertaking that will clarify just how
lifestyle choices affect whether people
develop dementia. Here's how it works:
• New members take part in a thorough
assessment that includes simple genetic
and memory tests, blood work, and
details of chronic health conditions,
general health, lifestyle, muscle mass,
and physical fitness levels. Gut health
and brain health are closely linked,
so we also get a baseline of their gut
microbiome. Members are assessed
every year.
• Each member receives a personalized
plan based on their individual needs
and participates in programs such
as fitness and aquatics; lectures and
continuing education; mind, body,
and soul wellness; performing arts;
nutrition and cooking; fine arts and
crafts; events, games, and social clubs.
• Members with a high risk of developing
dementia receive enriched programming
tailored especially for them.
• All programming promotes social
engagement as loneliness is a known
risk for cognitive decline.
Over time we'll learn just how
much lifestyle choices can help
reduce dementia. What we learn
will save lives.
Lifestyle choices for health and science
