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Community Voices Healthy Brain Blog – I Am My Mother’s Caregiver

My name is Lorraine Wildcat. I am Ojibwe from Lac Du Flambeau, Wisconsin. I am my mother’s caregiver. My father passed on Dec 2, 2021, from heart problems and Covid. His doctor told us that my dad would have died with or without COVID because he had given him only 6 months to live. My ...

Promising Practice: Forward Momentum for Road Map for Indian Country Tribal Mini-Grantees

By: Mike Splaine, Splaine Consulting; Mary Ann O'Meara, International Association for Indigenous Aging The National Indian Health Board, with support from the Alzheimer's Association, awarded five $15,000 brain health-focused mini-grants to tribal organizations to support work on the Road Map for Indian Country. Grantees picked one of the eight public health strategies from the Road ...

Resources – Engaging with Tribal Leaders and Communities on Dementia, Alzheimer’s and Brain Health – Resources for Public Health

There are currently 574 federally recognized tribes in the U.S. with other tribes that have received state recognition, and still others not yet formally unrecognized. Every tribe is unique in political structure, culture, tradition, geography, size, and history. "Native Americans have a long and varied history of storytelling and culturally unique ways of communicating with ...

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