The Northwest Tribal Elders Project Building Our Largest Dementia (BOLD) Infrastructure
The Northwest Tribal Elders project fosters the Northwest tribes ensuring our tribal elders receive satisfactory health and wellness services and resources. We are currently funded on a cooperative agreement that focuses on capacity building, program, and policy development, mobilizing partnerships, providing health education and promotion, and training and technical assistance to our member tribes in areas that will enhance community development and health equity.
IN THE NEWS
On July 11-13, 2023 over 30 Northwest Tribes gathered at the Swinomish Casino Resort, in Anacortes, Washington on the Swinomish Reservation home to a community of Coastal Salish People. This was the for the First Annual Northwest Tribal Brain Health and Dementia Summit. For 2 ½ days we gathered together and shared Brain Health and Dementia resources and stories from our Northwest Tribes. The gathering was an opportunity to address the continued gap in the knowledge and awareness about dementias through Tribal communities and learn more about Risk Reduction, Benefits of Early Detection, and Caregiver support and to provide knowledge, resources and awareness of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) among American Indian and Alaska Natives (AI/AN)
FUNDING SOURCE: THIS RESOURCE WAS PRODUCED AND SUPPORTED THROUGH FUNDING BY CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION, NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAM GRANT #1NU58DP006923-11-00