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International Association for Indigenous Aging

Promising Practice: Increasing Dementia Knowledge and Skills in Tribal Primary Care and Public Health Nursing

When Josea Kramer, Ph.D., began working at the Veterans Health Administration (VA), she asked, “How can the VA and the Indian Health Service (IHS) work together to improve care for elders?” After the VA and IHS agreed to share certain resources, such as education, that answer became clear. As the Associate Director for Education/Evaluation of ...

Promising Practice: Native’s Engaged in Alzheimer’s Research

By: Mike Splaine Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a common form of dementia. Still, little data exist on the risk and prevalence of Alzheimer's Disease among American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders. Natives Engaged in Alzheimer's Research is a multi-site, multi-project initiative to examine Alzheimer's Disease in Native communities and launch interventions to ...

Promising Practice: The Starting Point: Elders Teach Us How to Communicate about Brain Health

For Washington State University researcher Dr. Amanda Boyd, her life-long goal is to identify health risks, including for dementia, and effectively communicate them to the population. In Boyd’s case, that population started with the Inuit living in the Arctic Circle and is now expanding to Alaska Native and American Indian populations in the US more ...

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