News & Updates

Redesigning Effective aNd Equitable systems of care for Women’s heart-brain recovery (RENEW) Network, will receive $5 million over five years to establish a Canada-wide collaboration focused on improving rehabilitation and recovery for women following heart-brain events such as stroke, heart attack, and cardiac arrest.

A stroke occurs in Canada every seven minutes, and the survivors who develop aphasia often describe it as one of the most devastating losses imaginable. The ideas are still there. The person is still entirely present. But the words slip and stall, arriving wrong or not at all.

Face drooping – Arm weakness – Speech difficulty – Time to call for help! The acronym FAST (Face-Arms-Speech-Time) is both a reminder of the early symptoms of stroke and the urgent action necessary. Acute ischemic stroke (AIS) – the most common form of stroke – occurs when a blood vessel to the brain is blocked, starving part of the brain of oxygen.

According to data collected by Public Health Agency of Canada, approximately 878,500 Canadian adults over the age of 20 have experienced a Stroke, a sudden loss of brain function caused by a brain blood vessel blockage or rupture.