CCAA 2025 Year-End Summary: Growth, Partnerships, and Impact
The Canadian Centre for Activity and Aging (CCAA) marked 2025 as a year of significant growth and impact across research, community engagement, education, and clinical innovation.
Key organizational milestones included the hiring of Dr. Tony Adebero as Research Coordinator, strengthening the Centre’s capacity in research coordination, partnership development, program evaluation, and grant activity.
Community outreach expanded through the delivery of the CCAA’s free Blood Pressure Screening Program, supporting early detection while creating new opportunities for applied research and community engagement.
The CCAA deepened existing partnerships with municipalities, health organizations, academic institutions, and community agencies across Canada, while establishing new collaborative projects with reliable partners like St. Joseph’s Health Care London, BrainsCAN, and the Robarts Research Institute. These partnerships also supported extensive student engagement, with more than 130 students participating through capstone projects, placements, and work-study programs.
In-house exercise, rehabilitation, and clinical innovation programs—including cardiac rehabilitation, functional fitness, and Bone–Brain–Heart initiatives—continued to advance evidence-based practice and translational research. Core research initiatives, such as the CCAA Operations Research Registry and Blood Pressure Study, strengthened long-term data infrastructure and quality improvement efforts.
The CCAA played a critical role in supporting recruitment for interdisciplinary aging research studies, while advancing multiple funded and developing grant initiatives in collaboration with academic and clinical partners.
Educational programming remained a cornerstone of CCAA’s impact, with 85 new Seniors’ Fitness Instructor Course (SFIC) certifications, continued delivery of functional fitness assessments, community exercise program partnerships, and SFIC refresher training.
Looking ahead to 2026, the CCAA will focus on scaling integrated exercise–research programs, strengthening partnerships, expanding data infrastructure, and investing in trainee development and knowledge translation to further support healthy aging across Canada.
