Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Brain Health Advances
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Brain Health Advances
The GBHI Alumni Community is invited to attend this leadership skills session focused on leveraging artificial intelligence for brain health advances.
Familiar Touch: The Aesthetics of Aging
Familiar Touch: The Aesthetics of Aging
We are thrilled to welcome American filmmaker Sarah Friedland to the UCSF Memory and Aging Center for a screening of her feature film Familiar Touch. Awarded the Luigi de Laurentiis Lion of the Future for best first film and Best Director award at the Venice International Film Festival (2024), this film intimately follows an octagenarian woman's transition into assisted living and the shifts in identity, memory, and physicality that follow.
Shifting the Narrative, Bringing Light to Younger-Onset Dementia
Shifting the Narrative, Bringing Light to Younger-Onset Dementia
Younger-onset dementia is often unseen and misunderstood. Yet it impacts people in their 30’s to mid-60’s globally. Nearly 4 million people worldwide are living with younger-onset dementia. However, when you multiply that by a family of 4, that's almost 16 million people that are navigating this diagnosis and this doesn't include those undiagnosed, misdiagnosed or whose loved ones have passed.