Helping Families Understand Alzheimer's Disease: A Multicultural, MultilingualOutreach Program for Asian and Pacific Islander Americans

摘要

The Project had as a singular goal the improvement of access to services byminority persons with Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and their family caregivers. The principal objectives of the Project were: (1) to develop and implement a multilingual, multimedia outreach campaign on information and support services available to AD patients and their families of Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, Native Hawaiian, Samoan and Southeast Asian ethnicity; (2) to identify perceptions of AD, the caregiver role, and attitudes toward the use of formal services among these seven Asian and Pacific Islander groups; (3) to evaluate the effectiveness of the dissemination campaign on perceptions of AD, the caregiver role, and attitudes toward the use of formal services among the target ethnic populations; and (4) to produce for dissemination (to State Units on Aging and Alzheimer's Associations) a Multilingual Alzheimer's Kit with brochure and video samples, plus a copy of the Final Report.