Researchers at the University of British Columbia are helping lead a first-of-its-kind project to improve Alzheimer’s disease prevention, diagnosis and care for people of Asian ancestry across North America.
UBC Hospital in Vancouver is one of 16 medical centres across the continent taking part in the Asian Cohort for Alzheimer’s Disease (ACAD), which will study the disease in people of Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese ancestry before expanding to other major Asian populations.
Alzheimer’s is the most common type of dementia, affecting around seven per cent of people over 65 in Canada in 2013 and 2014, according to Statistics Canada.
It causes progressive memory loss and cognitive
