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
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
- The Aging Brain
Tami Jollie-Trottier, PhD, Indigenized Behavioral Healing
Slides - Mind, Thinking, and Memory in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
Jordan P. Lewis, PhD, MSW, Professor, Department of Family Medicine & Biobehavioral Health, University of Minnesota Medical School – Duluth
Slides - Multifactorial Causation & Risk Reduction of Dementia: Indigenous Histories, Current Pathologies, and Prevention Potentials
Joseph Neil Henderson, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine & Biobehavioral Health University of Minnesota Medical School
Slides - American Indian Medicinal Plants for Menopause: Collaboration with Urban Indigenous Women
Tristesse Burton, PhD, MSL, Bridge to Faculty Postdoctoral Scholar, Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
Slides - Cultural Aspects of Care
Donald Jurivich, DO, Chair of Geriatrics, University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences
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
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