AlzEd: The Experiences of Black Canadians Living with Dementia and their Care Partners in Providing Care

Dr. Ingrid Waldron will give an overview of the study she conducted with her team on experiences of dementia among Black people in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area and the experiences of their care partners in providing care to them. 

Dr. Ingrid Waldron is Professor and HOPE Chair in Peace and Health in the Global Peace and Social Justice Program at McMaster University. She is a health sociologist whose research focuses on the health and mental health impacts of racism in Indigenous, Black and other racialized communities. In 2024, she completed a study on the experiences of Black people living with dementia and their care partners in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. As a follow-up to that study, she is currently conducting a digital storytelling project that includes short videos on dementia in Black communities. Ingrid’s research also focuses on mental illness in Black communities, COVID-19 in Black communities, and the health and mental health impacts of environmental racism and climate change devastation in Black and Indigenous communities. Ingrid is the author of There’s Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities, which was turned into a 2020 Netflix documentary of the same name and was co-produced by Ingrid and Canadian actor Elliot Page and Ian Daniel. She is the founder and Director of the Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequities and Community Health Project and co-developed Canada’s first environmental justice private members bill, which became law in 2024 (Bill C-226).