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Behaviour Supports for Seniors: Supporting nursing home residents and staff through COVID-19

March 5, 2021

The Behaviour Supports for Seniors program (BSSP) for TC-LHIN , housed at Baycrest, is a provincially funded program which recognizes that all behaviour has meaning and that responsive behaviours are...

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Ralph and Linda: A Love Story Written at Baycrest

February 12, 2021

In 2019, Linda Morganstein and Ralph Fen created their happily ever after at the Reuben Cipin Healthy Living Community at Two Neptune Drive, with a Mother’s Day wedding. They hosted...

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Virtual access to specialists improves care for people living with dementia

January 18, 2021

A new virtual pilot program to assess and treat people with challenging behaviours caused by dementia and related cognitive disorders is helping acute care hospitals, long-term care homes and family...

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Baycrest scientist appointed to the Order of Canada for groundbreaking memory research

December 31, 2020

Dr. Morris Moscovitch, a founding senior scientist at Baycrest’s Rotman Research Institute (RRI), has been named a Member of the Order of Canada for his critical contributions to the fields...

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Baycrest maintains its rank as a Top 10 research-intensive hospital in Canada

December 17, 2020

Baycrest is proud to be recognized as Canada’s most research-intensive aging-focused hospital and the second most research-intensive small hospital in Research Infosource’s 2020 rankings for Canada’s Top 40 Research Hospitals....

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Memory is Surprisingly Accurate Regardless of our Age, Suggests a new Baycrest Study

November 24, 2020

In a recent Baycrest study examining people’s ability to recall details surrounding past events, research participants scored an average of 94% on memory accuracy. This high level of accuracy was...

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Nurse Practitioner Week

November 13, 2020

Dear colleagues, This week marks Nurse Practitioner Week. Clearly, this year continues to be a challenging one for everyone, including nurses around the world who are directly involved in the...

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Individualized brain stimulation therapy improves language performance in stroke survivors, finds Baycrest study

November 12, 2020

Baycrest scientists are pioneering the use of individualized brain stimulation therapy to treat aphasia in recovering stroke patients.Aphasia is a debilitating language disorder that impacts all forms of verbal communication,...

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Baycrest’s Virtual Behavioural Medicine Program: An opportunity within a crisis

October 21, 2020

For many years now, severe responsive behaviours, aggression, confusion, hallucination and depression, found in individuals with dementia, have been a growing public health concern in countries like Canada with an...

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Baycrest’s Centre for Education Launches New Health Information Portal

October 1, 2020

Today, Baycrest’s Centre for Education is launching a new Health Information portal in conjunction with the start of National Health Literacy Month . The portal provides resources, links and tools...