Healthy Brain Rack Card
The Healthy Brain Rack Card provides essential information to help American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities reduce their risk of dementia. Highlighting how historical traumas like the loss of land, forced relocation, and food transitions increase the risks of dementia in these populations, the card also offers strategies for promoting brain health.
Key strategies include:
- Connecting with others through traditional practices such as storytelling and beading.
- Engaging in physical activities like dancing and walking.
- Harvesting and preparing traditional foods and medicines.
- Practicing and teaching your tribe’s language.
- Reducing alcohol and non-traditional tobacco use.
The rack card emphasizes that AI/AN communities have many strengths to draw upon for brain health and provides links to resources from the International Association for Indigenous Aging (IA²), the Alzheimer’s Association, and Indian Health Services.
Supported by the CDC, this resource aims to empower Native communities with culturally relevant information on brain health and dementia prevention.
This resource can be accompanied with the Dementia Bingo activity and the Dementia in American Indian & Alaska Native Communities video.
Click the links below to access and download high-resolution files for use in your community:
