Thinking Ahead

By Colleen Crowley

executive director of the Brain Health Initiative. “We’re focusing on how, by living a brain healthy lifestyle, we can promote and protect brain health, optimize daily performance, and prevent and fight brain illness.”

The Brain Health Initiative Longitudinal Study is “a multi-generational, community-based, epidemiological, longitudinal research study that will follow Suncoast residents, visitors, and workforce for decades in order to identify factors associated with brain health and performance across the lifespan.”

The Brain Health Initiative searched across North America for the study’s model pilot community, looking for a region that needed solutions in brain health outcomes and would welcome, participate,