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.

Symposium Objectives

• Describe how to transform clinical operations into Age-Friendly healthcare
• Reliably apply Geriatric 4M assessments
• Implement action plans for Geriatric syndromes

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

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

Program Objectives

• Describe how to transform clinical operations into Age-Friendly Healthcare
• Reliably apply Geriatric 4M assessments
• Implement action plans for Geriatric syndromes

Event Videos and Slides

Cultural Aspects of Care
Donald Jurivich, DO, Chair of Geriatrics, University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences
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

Age-friendly healthcare involves using evidence-based practice and awareness of older adult’s health care based on the framework of Geriatric 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

Geriatric 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 Geriatric 4Ms: What Matters, Mentation, Medication, and Mobility.

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

The video presentations and slide decks are from the virtual symposium held on March 30-31, 2021.

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