Addressing Systemic Racism: The Impact on African Americans with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia

Friday, 12/18/2020, 11:30 am.   ARCHIVED EVENT

Location: Online

This is the final session of a seven-month series in which the University of Wisconsin Center for Community Engagement and Health Partnerships explores how racism impacts African Americans with Alzheimer’s and related dementia. Gina Green-Harris, award-winning Director of the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute presents the status of Alzheimer’s from the perspective of her institute, followed by a robust panel discussion Nia Norris, Assistant Director of the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute; Stephanie Houston, Senior Outreach Specialist at the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute; and Bashir Easter, Ph.D., Assistant Director of the UW All of US Research Program in Milwaukee who’s done research on adolescents as caregivers to Alzheimer’s patients.

Registration Required.

Please feel free to email any questions for the panel to vking4@wisc.edu.

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Wisconsin Center for Demography of Health and Aging (CDHA)