Cohort 
2023

Sandra Baez, PhD, MS

Neuroscientist, Neuropsychologist

To reduce the scale and impact of dementia, we must work with people with dementia, but also with their caregivers and the community around them.

Current Work

Sandra is Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Los Andes University, Bogota, Colombia.

Personal Hero

My family

Words of Strength

Dreaming big, leadership, creativity

Vision

To reduce the scale and impact of dementia, we must work with people with dementia, but also with their caregivers and the community around them.

Strategy

Sandra is working in the design, implementation, and evaluation of a multicomponent intervention aimed to improve the quality of life of women of low socioeconomic status, who provide informal care to people living with dementia.

Impact

As an Atlantic Fellow, Sandra aspires to become a leader in brain health for more vulnerable people living with dementia in Colombia and their caregivers. She expects to build networks that support the development of scalable interventions in Latin America.

 

Motivation

In Colombia, caring for the elderly has traditionally been family-based and 80-90% of dementia caregivers are women. Considerable work on the design and implementation of effective and scalable interventions is urgently needed.