The Dynamic Web of Dementia Caregiving: Beyond the Tasks | June 22, 2023
Date of Presentation: June 22, 2023
Type: Past Presentation
Audience: Community
Program: Dementia Caregiver Support ECHO
Keywords: #caregiving experience #dementia
In this presentation and discussion, Dr. Neil Henderson (Oklahoma Choctaw), PhD, Indian Country ECHO lead faculty member and Professor Emeritus of Medical Anthropology at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth campus, discusses the experience of caregiving. He shares the experience of caregiving as not the set of tasks, rather caregiving is done in a larger context beyond the caregiver and receiver which involves the place, household members, non-household family, friends, clinical and clinic staff, CHR’s, tribal health programs, tribal elder programs, and more. Dr Henderson highlights that when we take a reductionist view of caregiving as tasks and tricks, we miss the manifold experience of caregiving—where caregivers really live.
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Presented by:
Neil Henderson, PhD
Neil Henderson, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Medical Anthropology at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth campus, and former Executive Director of the Memory Keepers Medical Discovery Team. He is Oklahoma Choctaw.
Neil’s research areas focus on aging issues of American Indian people. Specifically, his work is on biological and cultural influences regarding recognition and treatment of dementia and diabetes, dementia caregiving, cultural constructions of disease, and community health interventions and education in the context of cultural diversity. Dr. Henderson was honored by the award of the Leadership in Prevention for Native Americans by the Loma Linda University School of Public Health and the Award of Achievement by the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, College of Public Health, as well as being named a Presidential Professor by the University of Oklahoma,
College of Public Health.
Neil is the former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology and past-President of the Association for Anthropology and Gerontology. He has authored many articles in the scientific press and is a contributor to the Alzheimer’s Association and CDC’s new Healthy Brain Initiative’s Road Map for Indian Country (2019), principal author of The Savvy Caregiver for Indian Country (2013), co-author of the text, Social and Behavioral Foundations of Public Health (2001) and is senior editor of The Culture of Long-Term Care (1995).
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Date added: June 14, 2023
