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Promising Practice: Adapting Dementia Friends: Acknowledging History, Culture, and Resilience in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities

By: Breana Dorame (Gabrielino - Tongva), Mary Ann OMeara, MPH The International Association for Indigenous Aging (IA²) serves as a national hub for dementia and Alzheimer’s information resources serving Indian country, Alaskan Villages, and urban Indian populations using public health approaches. In 2021, IA² applied to USAging to become the national Dementia Friends licensee for American ...

IA2 Attends Dementia Risk Reduction Summit

The International Association for Indigenous Aging team, including Bill Benson, Molita Yazzie (Dine’), Breana Dorame (Gabrielino-Tongva), and Mary Ann OMeara, attended the Dementia Risk Reduction Summit in Atlanta, Georgia (May 16 - 17, 2023). This first-ever Dementia Risk Reduction Summit explored how public health can address the risk factors for cognitive decline and dementia across the public health prevention spectrum: from working in partnerships ...

Community Voices Blog: Memories with Grandma Coshehe

By: Barbara Thomburg (Osage) - IA2 Team Barbara Thomburg is Osage and currently lives in Pahuska, Oklahoma. She is a storyteller, a daughter, and a granddaughter. Barbara encouraged her family to make sure to write things down so stories could be passed through the generations. This also carried into how she learned to cook, especially ...

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