Wednesday, June 11th, 2025 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM at the Alzheimer Society of Toronto Head Office located at 20 Eglinton Ave W, 16th Floor.

Mid-Town Social focuses on social wellness for people with Dementia and their care partners. In this series, we create purposeful connections among people who are on similar journeys while engaging in a variety of engaging activities including art making, games, creative movement, cooking, meaningful conversations and more. The program is flexible and will be catered to the interests and needs of the group participants. Let’s come together, break bread, have a laugh and be creative together.

Wednesday, May 14th, 2025 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM at the Alzheimer Society of Toronto Head Office located at 20 Eglinton Ave W, 16th Floor.

Mid-Town Social focuses on social wellness for people with Dementia and their care partners. In this series, we create purposeful connections among people who are on similar journeys while engaging in a variety of engaging activities including art making, games, creative movement, cooking, meaningful conversations and more. The program is flexible and will be catered to the interests and needs of the group participants. Let’s come together, break bread, have a laugh and be creative together.

Wednesday, April 9th, 2025 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM at the Alzheimer Society of Toronto Head Office located at 20 Eglinton Ave W, 16th Floor.

Mid-Town Social focuses on social wellness for people with Dementia and their care partners. In this series, we create purposeful connections among people who are on similar journeys while engaging in a variety of engaging activities.

This month, Jano Cortijo will facilitate a art appreciate program with a focus on Nature. We will marvel at the wonder of forms and colors found in nature. We will engage in slow and careful observation of various works in different techniques to appreciate and discuss how artists have captured flowers, trees, fruits and gardens throughout time.

Jano Cortijo is an arts educator whose work finds him engaging audiences of various ages, abilities, and backgrounds in museums, classrooms, community centers, and online. Straying far from the canon to elevate artists and works that have been excluded or erased from mainstream conversations, Cortijo encourages critical discussion while connecting the participants’ individual histories and stories with the art and art makers.

Join us with your curiosity and come ready to share thoughts and ideas.

Photo Credit: Alfred Henry Maurer, Flowers, 1912 Oil on paper, 21 x 18 inches

Our peer-led support groups provide care partners with the opportunity to discuss both practical and emotional needs related to caring for an individual diagnosed with OR suspected of having cognitive impairment. These groups are facilitated by volunteers who have lived experience as care partners and have received training on group facilitation. Participants and peer facilitators decide on the focus and direction of the group.

Learning Objectives:

• Provide a safe setting which promotes mutual support, both practical and emotional, throughout the course of the disease
• Enhance care partner’s knowledge of the illness, available supports, and coping strategies.

 

This support group meets on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of every month from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm online using Zoom

Registration and a short pre-screening are required before attending this support group.
For more information about this peer support group or other peer support groups, please contact intake@alz.to or complete the interest form below

 

For more information about this peer support group or other peer support groups, please follow the link to complete the form: Interest Form
(Completion of this interest form does not guarantee a spot in this group. Please check your junk/spam email box if you do not receive a confirmation email.)

 

PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT IS FOR INFORMAL CAREGIVERS/PARTNERS/FAMILY/FRIENDS.
If you are a formal Healthcare Provider, please see program offerings: https://alz.to/courses-learning-programs/

Our peer-led support groups provide care partners with the opportunity to discuss both practical and emotional needs related to caring for an individual diagnosed with OR suspected of having cognitive impairment. These groups are facilitated by volunteers who have lived experience as care partners and have received training on group facilitation. Participants and peer facilitators decide on the focus and direction of the group.

Learning Objectives:

• Provide a safe setting which promotes mutual support, both practical and emotional, throughout the course of the disease
• Enhance care partner’s knowledge of the illness, available supports, and coping strategies.

 

This support group meets on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of every month from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm online using Zoom

Registration and a short pre-screening are required before attending this support group.
For more information about this peer support group or other peer support groups, please contact intake@alz.to or complete the interest form below

 

For more information about this peer support group or other peer support groups, please follow the link to complete the form: Interest Form
(Completion of this interest form does not guarantee a spot in this group. Please check your junk/spam email box if you do not receive a confirmation email.)

 

PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT IS FOR INFORMAL CAREGIVERS/PARTNERS/FAMILY/FRIENDS.
If you are a formal Healthcare Provider, please see program offerings: https://alz.to/courses-learning-programs/

Our peer-led support groups provide care partners with the opportunity to discuss both practical and emotional needs related to caring for an individual diagnosed with OR suspected of having cognitive impairment. These groups are facilitated by volunteers who have lived experience as care partners and have received training on group facilitation. Participants and peer facilitators decide on the focus and direction of the group.

Learning Objectives:

• Provide a safe setting which promotes mutual support, both practical and emotional, throughout the course of the disease
• Enhance care partner’s knowledge of the illness, available supports, and coping strategies.

 

This support group meets every other Tuesday from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm online using Zoom

Registration and a short pre-screening are required before attending this support group.
For more information about this peer support group or other peer support groups, please contact intake@alz.to or complete the interest form below

 

For more information about this peer support group or other peer support groups, please follow the link to complete the form: Interest Form
(Completion of this interest form does not guarantee a spot in this group. Please check your junk/spam email box if you do not receive a confirmation email.)

 

PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT IS FOR INFORMAL CAREGIVERS/PARTNERS/FAMILY/FRIENDS.
If you are a formal Healthcare Provider, please see program offerings: https://alz.to/courses-learning-programs/

Our peer-led support groups provide care partners with the opportunity to discuss both practical and emotional needs related to caring for an individual diagnosed with OR suspected of having cognitive impairment. These groups are facilitated by volunteers who have lived experience as care partners and have received training on group facilitation. Participants and peer facilitators decide on the focus and direction of the group.

Learning Objectives:

• Provide a safe setting which promotes mutual support, both practical and emotional, throughout the course of the disease
• Enhance care partner’s knowledge of the illness, available supports, and coping strategies.

 

This support group meets on the 2nd Friday of every month from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm online using Zoom

Registration and a short pre-screening are required before attending this support group.
For more information about this peer support group or other peer support groups, please contact intake@alz.to or complete the interest form below

 

For more information about this peer support group or other peer support groups, please follow the link to complete the form: Interest Form
(Completion of this interest form does not guarantee a spot in this group. Please check your junk/spam email box if you do not receive a confirmation email.)

 

PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT IS FOR INFORMAL CAREGIVERS/PARTNERS/FAMILY/FRIENDS.
If you are a formal Healthcare Provider, please see program offerings: https://alz.to/courses-learning-programs/

The Rebanks Family Fellowship and International Performance Residency Program at The Royal Conservatory’s Glenn Gould School is the only one of its kind in Canada, offering a rich curriculum for career development. Alumni of the program grace the world’s great stages, including Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall and Koerner Hall, and perform with major orchestras in Canada and abroad.

Enjoy a 45-minute chamber music recital by one of the 2024-25 Rebanks Fellows, followed by a short Q&A session led by Program Manager Lauren Levorson-Wong.

The concert takes place at the Royal Conservatory of Music,  273 Bloor Street W.

For more information about this program please contact Kristin Bartlett

If more than one person will be attending, you must register each guest. Click on the plus sign at the top right of the registration form to indicate the number of guests.

This workshop provides an overview of the relationship between dementia and epilepsy, as well as the various types of seizures. It will focus on how to notice signs of a seizure and what to do if a seizure occurs. This workshop is a collaboration between the Alzheimer Society of Toronto and NeuroBridge, a University of Toronto medical student club dedicated to bridging neuroscience education and community engagement.

Learning Objectives:

• understand the relationship between dementia and epilepsy
• understand the various types of seizures
• learn how to support a person living with dementia who experiences seizures

Summary:

This webinar will focus on how rehabilitation and technology can help people living with dementia stay at home longer and live more independently. While rehabilitation is often thought of as something that restores or improves abilities, it is just as important to maintain the abilities people already have. Keeping those skills can help individuals continue to do everyday tasks without needing extra support. We will also discuss how technology can assist people living with dementia in completing daily tasks, staying safe, and reducing the risk of falls. Topics will include the use of self-cueing, exercises to improve balance, and even video games that can help with rehabilitation.

We will also share information about two studies looking at how technology and games are being used to make rehabilitation more effective for people living with dementia.

For more information on the studies:

Click links to learn more:

Task Sequencing & Dementia Study

Bootle Blast (Exercise Video Game) & Dementia Study

Have questions about these study listings? Email Victoria.Telford@camh.ca

This webinar is presented in partnership with the Toronto Dementia Research Alliance

 

About the Presenters

Christina Commisso, MSc Candidate at Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Christina Commisso is a first-year MSc candidate in the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute at University of Toronto and at the KITE Research Institute. Christina’s research focuses on the use and development of technology that supports people with dementia to complete activities of daily living more independently. Christina has worked in this area of research since 2022.

 

Erica Dove, PhD Candidate at Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

Erica Dove is a final-year PhD candidate in the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute at the University of Toronto and at the KITE Research Institute. Erica’s research focuses on the creative application of technology to support the health, function, and well-being of people living with dementia. Erica has worked in this area of research since 2014.