Education
This section includes educational materials about issues related to dementia care in diverse communities and challenges to organizations that would like to expand their services to diverse audiences.
Diversity Programmatic, Policy and Research Implications Report (2 pages)
10 Steps to Providing Culturally Sensitive Dementia Care Report (12 pages)
Cultural Competency Definition (2 pages)
Asian Pacific Islander Dementia Care Network Project Report (11 pages)
Diversity Issues in Treatment and Assessment (11 pages)
Curriculum in Ethnogeriatrics
Produced by the Bureau of Health Professions Health Resources and Services Administration U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
The purpose of this program is to teach cultural competence to health care staff who work with elders from diverse ethnic backgrounds. The five comprehensive modules are designed so they can be used together or individually. African-American, Native American, Asian Pacific Islander, Asian Indian, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Native Hawaiian, Pakistani, and Southeast Asian curricula are offered.
Outreach
This section includes resources for developing outreach programs for cultural and ethnic minority communities and sample documents for assessing the cultural competence of an agency that is developing outreach efforts in diverse communities.
Multicultural Outreach Manual (71 pages)
Culturally Competency Self-Assessment Protocol Survey (30 pages)
Long-Term Care: Diversity and the Aging Network Handbook (76 pages)
Translation
Transcultural Guidelines (3 pages) Bibliography
The bibliography is a reviewed collection of articles, books, and other resources about Alzheimer’s disease and issues relevant to dementia treatment and care among individuals in ethnic and cultural minority groups. We recommend that you contact your local Alzheimer’s Association chapter or local library for availability of items on the list. Items held in the Alzheimer’s Association Green-Field Library in Chicago are noted and may be checked out with an interlibrary loan from your local public or academic library.
The University of North Carolina Institute on Aging created a Web bibliography on Alzheimer's disease and dementia in diverse populations. This online resource offers a comprehensive snapshot of the social and behavioral research related to Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.
Comments and questions
Please send comments or questions about Diversity Resources to DiversityResources@alz.org.
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