Training in Support of the American Indian Eldercare Campaign: MobilizingResources to Serve At-Risk Indian Elders

摘要

This training project was designed to meet each of the goals of the NationalEldercare Campaign by addressing the pressing and pervasive needs of at-risk older American Indians. The primary goal of this project was to stimulate and assist the expansion of home-care worker training programs at American Indian colleges and to disseminate home-care worker training information to a broad range of individuals and organizations involved in service provision and advocacy on behalf of American Indian elders. A key task was the replication of a proven American Indian home-care worker curriculum that was previously developed in collaboration with Salish Kootenai College (SKC) in Pablo, Montana, through prior Administration on Aging funding. One of these efforts was to recruit and train 24 students as home-care workers. Also, an effort was made to award planning grants to additional American Indian colleges to assess the feasibility of implementing home-care worker training programs. Also, an effort was made to establish community eldercare coalitions. Technical assistance was given to each participating college in these activities.