Understanding Racial Disparities in Cognitive Aging and Alzheimer's Disease Risk

Submitted by Minnesota North... on Jan 30, 2021 - 3:54pm CST

Resource Type:

Presentation

This presentation (46:44 minutes) sponsored by the University of Arizona's Center on Aging is given by Dr. Rachel Peterson, CDC Healthy Brain Research Network Scholar. Dr. Peterson discusses the racial disparities in cognitive aging. She defines and describes racial disparities in a variety of contexts and under the umbrella of dementia. Finally, she discusses clinical implications for racial disparities when caring for Alzheimer's disease and cognitively impaired patients. (Presentation begins at 1:32 minutes).

Author(s):

Rachel Peterson

Link to Resource:

https://streaming.biocom.arizona.edu/streaming/28850/event

Subject:

Education & Learning

Additional Tags (Optional):

Alzheimer's disease