Grace Park, MD, CCFP, EMBA
Dr. Grace Park is a Family Physician with research interests focused on frailty prevention and healthy aging. She is the founder and physician lead for the Pacific Regional Centre for Healthy Aging and medical consultant for United Way BC. She is a geroscience researcher with the Canadian Frailty Network and Age-Well and a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Practice at the Faculty of Medicine at UBC.
She served as the Regional Medical Director at Fraser Health Authority for home and community care (2010-2024) where she led the work on the CARES project developing and validating the electronic CGA. She led the development and implementation of the frailty pathway at Fraser Health, which aims to holistically assess older adults with frailty and provide tailored connections to services both in the community social and health services sectors.
To support aging in place, she also led the social prescribing scheme and worked to embed it into practice throughout the region. She remains committed to social prescribing as a way to bridge the health sector with community-based seniors’ services and is working with United Way BC to scale and spread social prescribing to other health regions in the province.
Keywords: Frailty, health promotion, geroscience, social prescribing
Email: grace.park@fraserhealth.ca