Brian Dompe

Brian is retired and lives in Edmonton.  After suffering a series of TIAs, he joined as a participant in the COMPASS-ND Study where he was diagnosed with Vascular Dementia in.

Brian is a life long community volunteer including serving on Boards such as Habitat for Humanity, the Alberta Bereavement Society and a number of Civic Boards.  He has served as a Patient Partner/Advisor on a number of research projects and recently completed the University of Calgary PaCER Program (Patient and Community Involvement in Research).  After the first couple of research projects, he became involved with the Alberta Strategy for Patient Oriented Research (AbSPORU) and currently sits as a Patient Advisor on their Executive Committee, as well as serving on the SPOR National Patient Engagement Community of Practice (SPENCOP) group.  He feels their call for patient engagement “nothing about us without us” applies aptly as well for those living with dementia.  

Involvement in health outcomes, particularly for seniors, includes sitting on the Albertans for Health Advisory Council, Alberta Health Services’ Integrating Prevention into Connect Care Steering Group as well as facilitating a variety of health related workshops at local Seniors Centres.

An increasing interest in the use of social prescriptions to improve well being and concerns about issues seniors face, such as ageism, discrimination in health care practices, etc., led him to join the Board of the Edmonton Seniors Coordinating Council and serving as a Senior Advisor/Co-Investigator on a project establishing the Northern Alberta Regional Centre for Healthy Aging.    

Brian enjoys spending his remaining spare time volunteering for a number of charitable organizations and local festivals.