Reach for SKY! Research on Nutrition, the Gut and Brain Health
Fri, Aug 22
|Theatre at Bowen Island Community Centre
Come and learn about how healthy diets may promote healthy aging.
Time & Location
Aug 22, 2025, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Theatre at Bowen Island Community Centre, 580 Bowen Island Trunk Rd, Bowen Island, BC V0N 1G2, Canada
About the event
As part of the Reach for SKY! Mobilizing Knowledge to Promote Brain Health and Healthy Aging, this presentation will discuss how nutrition may be important in the connection between the gut and the brain in older adults and how healthy diets may promote healthy aging and brain health.
Parkinson’s disease and the BC Brain Wellness Program will be described as an example of a model of a holistic intervention including nutrition, exercise and arts-based programs for brain health.
Kathy Pichora-Fuller will host the presentation and discussion. The special guest presenter is Dr. Silke Cresswell.
Instruction on using hearing accessibllity technology in the theatre at 9:30 (bring your hearing aid and smart phone if you have one).
This presentation will include discussion and light refreshments.
Silke Cresswell, MD, is an Associate Professor in the Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, UBC. She directs the BC Brain Wellness Program…