Real Need. Real Science. Real Solutions.

Our research is all about maximizing life for people living with the effects of disability, illness and aging.

The work our researchers do benefits people whose lives have been turned upside down by conditions such as stroke, cancer, brain injury heart disease, spinal cord injury, cancer, hip fracture, and Alzheimer’s disease.


We are also preventing injury by making streets, homes and workplaces safer, and heading off illness before it happens.

Toronto Rehab, a national leader in rehabilitation science, is rapidly becoming the largest rehabilitation research program in the world.

We are home to one of world’s most advanced rehabilitation research environments. Opening in late 2011, the IDAPT Centre for Rehabilitation Research is a network of research facilities that will truly transform rehabilitation science.

The Facts

More than half of us will be touched by disability, either personally or through someone in our immediate family circle The number of people 65 and older will double over the next two decades About 90% of those over 65 have at least one chronic disease, and 80% have at least two About three million Canadians voluntarily provide care to someone affected by disability or aging