Grant: Planning Grants - PA: First Nations, Inuit or Métis Planning Activities

Our planning grant will bring together researchers and knowledge users who work with Indigenous populations in Canada, the United States and Australia, and who are active in the field of aging, dementia and cognitive impairment research. The grant will facilitate meetings, discussion and knowledge translation concerning priorities for research, early lessons learned in each country, and the development of best practice research models to address health service needs for age-related dementias in Indigenous peoples. Discussions to take place in the winter of 2014 will focus on the process of developing culturally appropriate screening and clinical care interventions for cognitive impairment in Indigenous peoples. This international meeting will lead to the development of an international collaborative research partnership between Indigenous health researchers and health workers focused on age-related cognitive decline in Canada, Australia and the United States. Information shared at this meeting and the early stages of research planning will subsequently be shared with Indigenous communities and a wider circle of knowledge users in each of the three countries in order to further develop a feasible research strategy. Our goal is to develop funding proposals to be submitted to foundations such as the Alzheimer's Societies and Associations in each country and to national granting agencies to support research for international intervention research aimed at improving diagnosis, care and outcomes for Indigenous populations affected by age-related dementias.