The first annual Hacking Health Waterloo Hackathon is a weekend-long hackathon that breaks down barriers to healthcare innovation by bringing together IT and healthcare professionals to collaborate, dream up & design apps, devices and solutions for patient-centric care.

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This year’s theme: Brain Health, Aging and Wellness

Hackathon Challenges:

• Emergency Department Visits: Solutions that reduce or avoid unnecessary emergency department visits for older adults living with dementia.
• Falls prevention: Solutions that prevent falls, or mitigate injury due to falls, in older adults with dementia.
• Aging at Home: Solutions for better management of complex chronic conditions in older adults with dementia who are living at home.
• Cognitive Fitness: Solutions that improve brain health or cognitive fitness in older adults.

Hack4Health (H4H) is a non-traditional hackathon aimed at social impact rather than monetary benefit, taking place November 4th-6th.

H4H provides an exciting space for undergraduate and graduate students to create practical applications (software, hardware, and social solutions) for people living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) or dementia (Alzheimer's disease or other dementias). 

The applications that emerge from H4H benefit people affected by and/or living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias or MS, enhance the profile of both conditions, inspire cutting-edge research at the University of Waterloo, and provide an invaluable platform for social innovation. 

Students will have the opportunity to collaborate with a broad range of disciplines and members of the community to come up with impactful solutions to real problems.

CAG2016 is the 45th Annual Scientific and Educational Meeting of the Canadian Association on Gerontology, Canada's premier association of those who work, research or have an interest in the field of aging. Visit the CAG website to read more about membership and to view programs from previous meetings.