Aducanumab (Aduhelm) Frequently Asked Questions
This resource is an FAQ about Aducanumab (Aduhelm) which is the newest drug for Alzheimer's disease. This medication may help slow progression of the early stage of Alzheimer's disease. This resource is intended to address questions from families, people living with dementia, and care professionals regarding the new FDA-approved Alzheimer's drug.
Dementia Q&A Webinar
This webinar (1:57:30 minutes) consists an interprofessional panel of experts including a geriatrician, psychologist, cultural expert, physical therapist, geriatric pharmacist, and a lawyer. They address questions and concerns related to living with dementia, dementia care, and the key issues that often come up. Some topics discussed includes medications that cure and treat dementia, how to react to a person with dementia's false stories, how to have other caregivers step in without having one person initiating it, and diminished capacity dementia with the law.
COVID19 and Brain Health: Advancing Equity for Caregivers & Communities
This webinar (57:51 minutes) discusses advancing equity for caregivers in communities and the importance of equity, addressing the dual challenges around COVID-19, and improving brain health. There are five sections included in this webinar. Sarah Lenz Lock discusses the risk factors and disparities of COVID-19 and brain health. Lauren J. Parker talks with Vanessa Brown to learn about her experience of being a caregiver during COVID-19, specifically to a patient with dementia. Jasmine Nakayama discusses vaccinations and how to reinforce confidence in COVID-19 vaccines.
From Data to Action: Using the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) to Advance the Public Health Agenda of Dementia Caregiving
This webinar (1:33:14 minutes) discusses the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) which is a caregiver module that identifies the relationship to the care recipient and collects key information in a very brief concise fashion related to caregiving. There are three presentations included in this webinar. Phil Echevarria discusses BRFSS's impact on New Jersey and the caregiving data and how it has influenced policy change in New Jersey. Jana Pastir discusses how North Dakota has used the Subjective Cognitive Decline caregiver modules to enhance other chronic disease programs.
Part I: Public Health Considerations and Models for Cultural Adaptations in Dementia Caregiving
This webinar (57:10 minutes) discusses the public health considerations and models for cultural adaptations in caregivers of people with dementia. This webinar includes two different presentations. Nina Darby discusses the Diverse Elders Coalition and their history of caregiving initiative and some novel findings in their research. This led to their caregiving toolkit, Caring for Those Who Care (found linked in the presentation), which includes fact sheets on each diverse community.
Part II: Public Health Considerations and Models for Cultural Adaptation in Dementia Caregiving, Focusing on African American and Latino Caregivers
This webinar (1:13:08 minutes) discusses health inequities and cultural adaptations for African American and Latino caregivers of people with dementia. This webinar includes three different presentations. Jason Resendez discusses how to turn research into practice to support public health agencies in the delivery and development of culturally tailored dementia caregiving programming.
Part III: Public Health Considerations and Models for Cultural Adaptation in Dementia Caregiving, Focusing on Asian American/Pacific Islanders and Indigenous Caregivers
This webinar (59:05 minutes) discusses cultural adaptation for Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders and Indigenous caregivers and provides examples and lessons learned from tailoring programs to support caregivers in these communities. This webinar includes three different presentations. Ocean Le discusses the unique realities of Indigenous, Asian American, and Pacific Islanders dementia caregivers. Haera Han discusses cultural adaptations in dementia caregiving, specifically in the case of Korean Americans.
Challenges and Opportunities for Supporting Dementia Caregivers: Insights from Public Health Professionals
The Minnesota-North Dakota chapter of the Alzheimer's Association conducted interviews with 12 public health officials to gain a better understanding of the agencies' current work and experience with supporting caregivers of dementia patient and the challenges and opportunities anticipated for implementing dementia caregiving programs in the future. This document summarizes key themes and insights concluded from the interviews.
Treatment of Depression in Late Life
This presentation (18:33 minutes) given by Beth Labardi discusses how to treat depression in late life. The objective of this presentation is to know treatment options for late life depression and the factors to consider in selecting treatment options. The treatments discussed in the presentation are psychotherapy, medications, and electroconvulsive therapy.
Proactive Advance Care Planning in the Midst of COVID-19
This presentation (26:13 minutes) given by Lianne Hirano discusses how to give advance care planning during the time of COVID-19. By the end of this presentation, learners should be able to: (1) orient to where the system is, whether it is conventional capacity, contingency capacity, or crisis capacity; (2) figuring out if the patient is at a low risk, moderate risk, or high risk; (3) elicit patient values; (4) assign a healthcare proxy; and (5) how to respond to patient's emotion.