Advancing Dementia Care and Prevention in Community

Connectedness, feeling At home, and joyful Play (CAP): A community-generated model for place-based wellness to address cognitive health disparities. Source: Gan et al. (2024).

EQUIGENESIS UrbanLab is leading a Canadian-Australian-European Partnership for Brain Health grant on Digital social Prescribing for Dementia care and Prevention in Community (DP2C).

We’re looking to test a social prescribing and biofeedback technologies to help regulate heart-rate variability (HRV) among older adults with memory complaints and persistent depressive symptoms despite community-based interventions (e.g., horticulture, mindfulness, or movement-based therapy), identified through a digital social prescribing app in city and rural areas for each country. This is an interdisciplinary team comprising clinicians and planners. Work packages for country PIs include:

1. WP1. To introduce and implement the digital social prescribing app in 4 city/rural areas, involving at least a health centre and a community centre in each location.

   
   

2. WP2. To provide training, monitor progress, and support health and community service providers by organizing Learning Circle(s).

Pre-proposal expression of interest for EP BrainHealth funding is now closed. Please contact A/Professor Dr. Daniel RY Gan (drgan@sfu.ca) to explore parallel collaboration opportunities in our DP2C international Stepped-Wedge Cluster-Randomized Trial (SW-CRT), planned for 2027/28 onwards.