Awards Nearly $1.2 Million Addressing Alzheimer’s Disease
The Indian Health Service is announcing the award of an additional $1.19 million through six cooperative agreements to enhance tribal and urban Indian health system local capacity to provide dementia care and services. The total commitment for the new three-year awards is nearly $3.6 million. This new round of funding builds on early work and lessons learned from awards offered in 2022and 2023, with an eye for creating sustainable and replicable models of dementia care.
“There continues to be a great need for access to more timely and accurate diagnosis, as well as culturally appropriate education and management of care for people living with dementia, as regrettably, many American Indians and Alaska Natives suffer from cognitive decline,” said IHS Director Roselyn Tso. “Clinicians at IHS, tribal, and urban Indian health facilities are using these funds to identify and build new and improved approaches to care.
The prevalence rates for dementia and cognitive impairment among American Indian and Alaska Native people are as high, or even higher, than those in other U.S. populations. In a more thanof 11 tribes released this spring, investigators reported that 54 percent of American Indians between the ages of 70 and 95 had cognitive impairment, with mild cognitive impairment affecting about 35 percent, and dementia another 10 percent.
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