Community Health Representative Mini-Cog Screening | October 21, 2024
Date of Presentation: October 21, 2024
Type: Past Presentation
Audience: Clinical Community
Program: Community Health Representative
Keywords: #chr #community health representative #dementia #mini cog
In this presentation, Jolie Crowder, PhD, RN, MSN, CCM, provides an introduction to the mini-cog screening tool – a fast and simple screening test to help detect dementia in its early stages. Dr Crowder provides a demonstration of the Mini-Cog cognitive impairment screening tool, discusses what the Mini-cog is and when to use it, shares research on how dementia impacts American Indian and Alaska Native communities, how to identify 10 signs that can be red flags for cognitive impairment, shares relevant findings from the first year of the Mini-Cog pilot that apply to your work as a CHR and also identifies an opportunity for your CHR program to get involved in the next pilot.
Recording:
Presented by:
Jolie Crowder
PhD, RN, MSN, CCM
Dr. Jolie Crowder, PhD, RN, MSN, CCM, serves as the National Elder Care Consultant for the Division of Clinical and Community Services (DCCS), at the Indian Health Service (IHS) Headquarters. In this role, she serves as the principal representative responsible for planning, formulating, and implementing national elder care policies and programming. These programs focus on early recognition, diagnosis, and management of dementia and Alzheimer’s. Additional responsibilities include representing the DCCS in elder program forward-facing outreach activities and monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of the elder care program.
Before joining the IHS, she worked for more than a decade with the International Association for Indigenous Aging as a senior director and director of Research and Evaluation. She worked briefly with the National Council for Urban Indian Health. She served as principal investigator for a National Healthy Brain Initiative award and lead evaluator for 4 tribal Administration for Community Living Alzheimer’s grants. In addition, Jolie has hands-on experience developing plain language and culturally relevant resources for use by and for Indian Country. She has published peer- reviewed publications on elder abuse, dementia, and social determinants of cancer in American Indian and Alaska Native populations working in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
She graduated with a master’s in health systems management and a doctorate in nursing science from the University of Virginia. Her doctoral dissertation focused on elder mistreatment in Native populations.
Michelle Archuleta
Program Director
Michelle Archuleta, MS, MA, is an enrolled member of the Lone Pine Paiute-Shoshone Tribe with ancestry to the Ohkay Owingeh. She is currently the Indian Health Service National Community Health Representative (CHR) Consultant and Community Health Team Lead. Michelle has an extensive background in health promotion, and community-based programming at the local, state, regional and national levels. Her professional interests include health coaching, Indigenous storywork, and advocacy for the advancement of the field of community health and CHRs critical to the front-line of health and healthcare.
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Date added: October 20, 2024