Canada Backs Dementia Support Projects

Today, the Honourable Marjorie Michel, Minister of Health, announced over $4.7 million in funding to six new projects to support community-based organizations devoted to improving the health and wellbeing of people with dementia and their caregivers, and to furthering knowledge about this disease, and its risk and protective factors.

The six organizations receiving funding for national and community-based projects include the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Canada's National Ballet School, Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre and the University of Northern British Columbia.

The funding announced today through the Dementia Community Investment, is part of the implementation of A Dementia Strategy for Canada: Together We Aspire.

https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/news/2026/01/government-of-canada-invests-in-projects-to-support-people-living-with-dementia-and-their-caregivers.html

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