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Barb Bold

Recipient from the Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cooperative agreement awards for the Healthy Brain Initiative (HBI): BOLD Public Health Programs to Address Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (AD/RD) in Indian Country. The project will be titled The Northwest Tribal Elder’s Project. (see links)

CDC collaborated with tribal leaders across the nation to develop and implement the Healthy Brain Initiative and the Road Map for Indian Country (RMIC). This is a first-ever public health guide focused on dementia in AI/AN communities.  NPAIHB is the first AI/AN CDC funded collaborative grant. The HBI/RMIC is a community engagement tool that can empower tribal communities to:

  • Understand effects of dementia in tribal communities
  • Understand and provide training and resources to caregivers and providers
  • Identify prevention, early detection and preventive strategies for public health approaches

Dementia is the loss of cognitive functioning — thinking, remembering, and reasoning — to such an extent that it interferes with a person’s daily life and activities. Some people with dementia cannot control their emotions, and their personalities may change. Dementia ranges in severity from the mildest stage, when it is just beginning to affect a person’s functioning, to the most severe stage, when the person must depend completely on others for basic activities of living.

What Is Dementia? Symptoms, Types, and Diagnosis | National Institute on Aging (nih.gov)

Are Native American and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) impacted by Dementia? Alzheimer’s Association reported in a report that 1 in 3 AIAN will develop ADRD

10 Warning Signs & Symptoms Signs

Dementia is an umbrella term used to describe a collection of brain diseases and their symptoms, which include: memory loss, impaired judgment, personality changes, and an inability to perform daily activities.

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is an early stage of memory loss or other cognitive ability loss (such as language or visual/spatial perception) in individuals who maintain the ability to independently perform most activities of daily living. Click here to read more.

Alzheimer’s is a type of dementia that affects memory, thinking and behavior. Symptoms eventually grow severe enough to interfere with daily tasks. Alzheimer’s is the most common cause of dementia, a general term for memory loss and other cognitive abilities serious enough to interfere with daily life. Alzheimer’s disease accounts for 60-80% of dementia cases. Click here to read more. 

  • Early Detection: The importance of being assessed, and what is next?
  • Risk Reduction: Prevention, managing modifiable risk-factors Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Prevention
  • Caregiver’s: Caregiving and caregivers. Stay-in-home care.
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