Past Events

Age-Friendly Healthcare for American Indian Elders Symposium

This virtual symposium is a free learning opportunity for providers, healthcare professionals, and community workers applying Age-Friendly Healthcare in American Indian populations.

February 28, 2025 Materials

Resilience Matters: In Research and Practice – Regina Robbins, PhD

Medicine Wheel: Circle of Life – Karen Semmens, DNP; Iris Walking Eagle – Case Manager/Care Coordinator; Shaylynn Demarrias – Dementia Project Coordinator

Deeply Rooted: The Ways Traditional Foods Contribute to the Health and Wellbeing of Tribal Elders – Ruth Plenty Sweetgrass-She Kills, PhD

Games & Art to Promote Elder’s Health in Indian Country – Donald Jurivich, DO; Nicole Derenne, MA, MPA

April 10, 2024 Materials

Event Recordings

Improving Health through Collaborating with Traditional Medicine
Frederick K. Ness, MD, St. Croix Chippewa Indian of Wisconsin

The History and Legacy of American Indian Boarding Schools
Denise Lajimodiere, EdD, MEd, BS, National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition

Enhancing Engagement in Motion: Exploring Barriers, Facilitators, and Innovative Approaches for Indigenous Elders
Lavonne Fox, PhD, OTR/L, University of North Dakota

Indigenized Traumatic Grief and Loss
Tami Jollie-Trottier, PhD, Indigenized Behavioral Healing

March 24, 2023 Materials

Event Videos and Slides

April 8, 2022 Materials
Age-friendly healthcare involves using evidence-based practice and awareness of older adult’s health care based on the framework of Geriatrics 4Ms: What Matters, Mentation, Medication, and Mobility. This half day symposium hosted regional experts who discussed incorporation of each of the 4Ms in patient care specific for American Indian populations over zoom webinar. This FREE activity provided up to four educational credits.

Summary of Event

8:00 – 9:00 am What Matters to American Indian Elders | Tami Jollie-Trottier, PhD, Indigenized Behavioral Healing

9:15 – 10:15 am Training Providers to Educate Caregivers of Native Elders with Dementia | Jordan P. Lewis, PhD, MSW, Associate Director, Memory Keepers Medical Discovery Team – Health Equity, Professor, Department of Family Medicine & Biobehavioral Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth campus

10:30 – 11:30 am Guiding Healthcare for Elders | Monica Mayer, MD, Council Women and Physician, Quentin N. Burdick Memorial Hospital

11:45 am – 12:45 pm Gait and Mobility Disturbances in Dementia | Blythe S. Winchester, MD, MPH, CMD, AGSF, Director of Geriatrics Services, Cherokee Indian Hospital, Certified Medical Director, Tsali Care Center, Chief Clinical Consultant, Geriatrics and Palliative Care, Indian Health Service

Partners

College of Nursing & Professional Disciplines, University of North Dakota

Dakota Geriatrics

Center for Rural Health

National Resource Center on Native American Aging

March 30-31 Event Materials

Geriatrics problems are common but often under recognized in health care. More than 80% of older adults with memory impairment go unrecognized by their primary care providers. Nearly two-thirds of older adults at risk for falls have no mitigating healthcare plan. To address this gap, Age-Friendly Care adopts evidence-based practice through the Geriatrics 4Ms: What Matters, Mentation, Medication, and Mobility.

Sponsored by Dakota Geriatrics, this symposium program brought regional experts together to discuss the Geriatrics 4Ms in patient care specific for American Indian populations in the Great Plains.

Mobility Assessments and Action Plans
Meridee Danks, DPT, NCS
University of North Dakota
Slides

Isolation and Loneliness
Tami Jollie-Trottier, PhD
Indigenized Behavioral Healing, Belcourt, North Dakota

Brain Health and Dementia Prevention
J. Neil Henderson, PhD
University of Minnesota

What Matters
Donald Jurivich, DO
Chair of Geriatrics, University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences

Functional Mobility for the Joy of Living
Lavonne Fox, PhD, OTR/L and Sclinda Janssen PhD, OTR/L
University of North Dakota
Slides | Handout

Overview of Age Friendly 4Ms Framework
Donald Jurivich, DO
University of North Dakota
Slides

What Matters
John Eagle Shield
(Retired) Director, Standing Rock
Slides

Aging vs. Dementia
Jacque Gray, PhD
University of North Dakota
Slides

Prescription Management with Traditional Indigenous Medications
Nicole Redvers, ND, MPH
University of North Dakota

Navigating Nutrition and Mealtime for People Living with Dementia

This virtual event was a free learning opportunity for providers, healthcare professionals, community workers and caregivers with experts on dementia practices.

Navigating Nutrition and Mealtime for People Living with Dementia – Virtual Symposium
March 14, 2024

This virtual event was a free learning opportunity for providers, healthcare professionals, community workers and caregivers with experts on dementia practices.

Program Objectives

  • Define dysphagia and its implications for people living with dementia
  • Incorporate nutrition in diet for people living with dementia
  • Discuss mealtime challenges and how to navigate mealtime for people living with dementia

Event Videos

Navigating Mealtime Challenges: Strategies for Encouraging Eating and Managing Behaviors in Dementia Care
Kara Welke, OTD, Home Therapy Solutions

Dementia and Dysphagia
Nicole Kiel Paschke, MS, CCC/SLP, University of North Dakota

Diet, Nutrition and Dementia
Puja Agarwal, PhD, Rush University

Dementia Detection and Caregiving Challenges in the Black and African American Communities

This virtual event was a learning opportunity for providers, healthcare professionals, people living with dementia, and caregivers. Participants learned about the disparities in prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s diseases and other dementias, and caregiver challenges in Black and African American communities.

February 28, 2023 Event Materials

This virtual presentation was a no-cost learning opportunity for providers, healthcare professionals, people living with dementia and caregivers. Participants learned about the disparities in prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s diseases and other dementias, and caregiver challenges in Black and African American communities.

Program Objectives

  • Discuss the disparities with Alzheimer’s disease in Black and African American communities
  • Describe the experiences of Black and African Americans who are impacted by dementia and their care partners
  • Identify resources and behavioral techniques for people living with dementia and their care partners

Summary of Event

12:05 – 12:35 pm Understanding Alzheimer’s and Dementia | Lakeitha Sims, MS
Recording | Slides

12:40 – 1:25 pm Sleep as Self-Care | Glenna Brewster Glasgow, PhD, RN, FNP-BC
Recording | Slides

1:35 – 2:20 pm Health Disparities & Inequalities in Alzheimer’s and Dementia | Beverly Berry, MA, CHES
Recording | Slides


2:30 – 3:15 pm Decision-Making Among Black Caregivers | Quinton D. Cotton, PhD, MSSA
Recording | Slides

3:30 – 4:00 pm Panel Discussion with Presenters | Gunjan Manocha, PhD, and Nikki Wegner, MS, OT
Recording