About Baycrest

Located in Toronto, Baycrest is one of the world's premier academic health sciences centers focused on aging. Through its strengths in research and education, Baycrest is using the power of inquiry and discovery to improve the health of tomorrow's elderly while at the same time care for and enhance the quality of life of the elderly today.

Baycrest provides care and service to approximately 2,500 people a day through the Baycrest Geriatric Health Care System which includes a unique continuum of care from wellness programs residential housing and outpatient clinics, to a 472-bed nursing home, and a 300- bed complex continuing care hospital facility with an acute care unit.

Our Research Centre for Aging and the Brain includes the acclaimed Rotman Research Institute, considered one of the top five brain institutes in the world and the Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research Unit (KLARU) which conducts research alongside our clinicians and applies the results directly to client care. Together the Rotman and KLARU are giving the world a whole new understanding -- and new hope -- about interventions and preventions, that could transform aging.

Through our Centre for Education on Aging we are sharing our expertise and knowledge locally, nationally and internationally. Baycrest believes that it not only has the ability to use its knowledge to help people around the world deal with diseases of aging, such as Alzheimer's, stroke, depression -- but the responsibility. Whether it is through our international telehealth program, on-line programming, conferences or through other mediums, we share our knowledge with professionals, other health care organizations and the public.

Fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, Baycrest is playing a unique and important role in training and enlightening future professionals who will have the responsibility of caring for our aging population. We also have linkages, partnerships and appointments at other academic centres across the country, continent and beyond.

Baycrest Foundation
With the generous support of individuals, families, businesses and foundations, who share our vision of transforming aging, Baycrest Foundation provides Baycrest with the funding it needs to care for the elderly of today, and the growing population of tomorrow. Find out more about the Baycrest Foundation >

With these unique strengths, Baycrest is one of the few organizations in the world that can say it is: Enriching Care; Enhancing Knowledge; Enlightening Minds.

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