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For retirement residences

Thirty minutes a week. Sharper residents

The same cognitive-motor protocol, adapted for active agers and delivered in-residence by staff you already have. Residents stay sharper; families and clinicians see measurable change between visits.

Session
30 min · once a week
Delivered by
Existing wellness staff
Footprint
One room · one headset
Report
Quarterly summary per resident

§ 01 — Who this is for

Active agers, with more runway

Not a memory-care intervention. A cognitive-motor training program for residents who are already functional and want to stay that way longer — and for the residences that want to show their families the difference.

Independent living

Residents who still drive, cook, host

The group most motivated to hold the line. Weekly cognitive-motor work, tracked across sessions, gives them (and their families) a thing to point to.

Assisted living

Staying in the conversation

For residents where day-to-day function is starting to cost effort. Thirty minutes that cushions the ride — reaction, attention, reduced fatigue.

Memory care adjacency

Residents at the early edge

Early research with cognitive-motor integration training suggests some early-stage participants recover markers of healthy cognition. The protocol runs as a standard offering, not a clinical trial.

§ 02 — The program

How it runs

The residence keeps doing what it already does well. We add one room, one piece of equipment, one half-hour slot per resident per week. Your wellness staff deliver it after a short training.

  1. I

    Set up the room

    One AR headset per cohort, a small clear space (a corner of the wellness room is usually enough), a tablet for the coach. Quarterly calibration visit by our staff.

    Week zero
  2. II

    Train the coach

    Approximately one hour of training for a wellness-team member to deliver the protocol. The coached element is warm and low-stress — residents describe it as “a nice thirty minutes,” not a test.

    Day one
  3. III

    Thirty minutes a week

    Per resident: one 30-minute coached session per week, same time each week. Residents work through a sequence of cognitive-motor tasks calibrated to their baseline and progressing over the term.

    Ongoing
  4. IV

    Quarterly family report

    Every twelve weeks, families receive a written summary: attendance, trajectory on three core measures, a short plain-language note from the coach. The thing that says “we’re doing this right.”

    Every quarter

§ 03 — What people notice

The changes families bring up

I’m sleeping better. My endurance is better. My cognitive speed is quicker — writing emails, scheduling, planning my week
— from Otrada client testimonials; the protocol’s consumer arm

Energy

More afternoons.

Case-series participants reported substantial improvement on SF-36 Energy scales — enough to exceed minimal clinically important differences. Residents start doing the small things again.

Sleep

The kind that holds.

Thorough sleep — not just time in bed. Reduced restlessness, less nighttime waking. Sleep measures improved consistently across adult training cohorts.

Cognition

The buffering stops.

The small hesitation that’s become familiar — name retrieval, decision weight, planning load — eases. Cognitive-motor integration training targets exactly the system that slows with age.

§ 04 — The science, briefly

Co-developed at York

The protocol was developed in Dr. Lauren Sergio’s lab at York University over three decades of cognitive-motor research. Her published work shows that thirty minutes a week of cognitive-motor integration training produces significant cognition improvements — and that some participants at the early edge of decline recover markers of healthy cognition.

Science
Three decades of research at York University
Co-developed with
Dr. Lauren Sergio, Tier I Research Chair
Evidence
Measurable on DTI brain scans

§ Next

Bring it into your residence

We partner with retirement residences across the GTA and beyond. Tell us about your community — size, existing wellness programming, what’s working, what isn’t — and we’ll plan a rollout together.

Plan a rollout hello@pathforwardneurotech.comToronto & the GTA