Grant: Master's Award: Canada Graduate Research Scholarships - Master's program

Individuals living with dementia experience significant impairments in activities of daily living, and maintenance of functional independence. This may result in worse quality of life outcomes. Therefore, developing efficacious cognitive and mobility intervention programs to improve and prevent further decline is of paramount importance. The aim of my project is to deliver and validate a “multi-domain integration” (MDI) augmented reality (AR) intervention program for older adults experiencing cognitive decline and/or at risk for dementia. I aim to investigate whether this program yields improvements in cognitive-motor integration performance, the ability to think and move at the same time, and has an effect on relevant brain structures. I am also interested in examining sex and gender differences in intervention efficacy. Community partners, namely the Unionville Home Society, will provide access to older at-risk community members, as well as those seniors residing on-site.