Events

This resource summarizes key insights from the second annual Latinos & Alzheimer’s Symposium.

This webinar series from the Cleveland ADRC highlights medical information and social issues on brain health that are pertinent to the Black community.

This article highlights how concentrated community memory screening events can be an effective and efficient recruitment strategy for Alzheimer’s disease research.

The aim of this study was to explore the feasibility of a 45-minute, culturally tailored presentation on Alzheimer's disease for professionals serving the Latino community and Latinos served by community organizations. Five lunch-and-learn events (“Smart Aging” presented in English to professionals and “Envejecimineto Digno” presented in Spanish to served Latinos) were conducted with a total of 40 professionals and 37 served Latinos. Researchers increased the pool of participants by scheduling...

This annual lecture series on healthy brain aging and prevention is presented by the University of California, Davis Alzheimer's Disease Center (ADC).

While recruiting for the Anti-Amyloid Treatment in Asymptomatic Disease (A4) Trial, investigators compared one-on-one with small-group recruitment sessions. Of the 127 potential participants, most chose small-group sessions. Researchers found that small-group sessions yielded a recruitment rate of 90 percent, while one-on-one sessions led to a 67 percent recruitment rate. In addition, small-group sessions contributed to significantly shorter median time for consent processes (20 versus 60...

An annual event billed as “the largest Chinese dementia-specific educational conference in the nation” and conducted in Chinese (Mandarin) is targeted to concerned community members, healthcare professionals, and families affected by Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia. The forum is cosponsored by the University of California Memory and Aging Center and other organizations. At the 2017 event, held on a Saturday afternoon in the Intel Auditorium in Santa Clara, CA, experts provided updates...

The Hellman Visiting Artist Program is a community outreach initiative from the UCSF Memory and Aging Center to encourage artists to explore their art through an interaction with the topic of dementia and people affected by the disease. Each year, an accomplished artist is invited to visit the center to learn about neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia and to participate in a creative exchange with researchers, patients, and families. The program...

This toolkit, originally developed by the African American Dementia Outreach Partnership and now distributed by the Balm in Gilead’s National Brain Health Center for African Americans, contains many resources for caregivers and families.

This annual symposium is sponsored by the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging and named for former Center director William Markesbery. The daylong scientific meeting is followed by a half-day community session to which the public is invited free of charge, with breakfast provided. An “Ask the Experts” panel is a popular component of the community session. In 2017, the scientific meeting had more than 160 attendees and the community session drew more than 650 people.