A Multi-Generational Approach to Introducing Technologies for Assessing and Supporting Cognitive Health in a Rural, Underresourced Setting.

Rural, older racially and ethnically diverse residents in rural areas in the southern U.S. have reported a strong sense of community, and desire to pursue healthy behaviors that promote aging in place.

Online Chair Yoga and Digital Learning for Rural Underserved Older Adults at Risk for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias.

Objectives: We evaluated the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of a home-based online chair yoga (OCY) program for racially and ethnically diverse rural community-dwelling older adults.

Methods: We randomly assigned participants to OCY or a computer brain game (CBG). After a computer literacy training led by high school students, participants engaged in remotely supervised OCY or CBG in twice-weekly 45-minute sessions for 12 weeks.

Perceptions About Discrimination in a Rural, Older, Racially and Ethnically Diverse Cohort.

Purpose: The purpose of this pilot study was to examine perceptions of discrimination among a small cohort of rural older, retired minority Florida farmworkers. Potential sources of discrimination were explored, such as health literacy, age, sex, gender, racial/ethnic background, or rural residency.

Sample: The study occurred in a rural area that is designated as a "hot zone" due to its HRSA designation as a medically underserved area (MUA), health provider shortage area (HPSA), and medically underserved population, despite lying only 50 miles due west of the affluent town of Palm Beach, Florida.

Assessing Alzheimer's Disease Knowledge and Cognitive Risk Among a Rural Older Afro-Caribbean Cohort.

Purpose: Older, rural Afro-Caribbeans are a growing subset of the Black population who face increased risk for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), but research targeting ADRD is scarce in this group. The purpose of this study was to investigate dementia risk among older Afro-Caribbeans living in a rural area. We also examined age, sex, and years of education, and knowledge about Alzheimer's disease as potential predictors of dementia risk.

Does self-directed learning address gaps in nursing student knowledge of Alzheimer's disease?

In the past two decades, deaths from stroke, heart disease and HIV decreased, whereas reported deaths from age-related Alzheimer's disease (AD) have increased. Future nurses will be caring for the rapidly escalating number of older adults facing increased AD risk, yet nursing students' knowledge has been shown to be limited regarding the age-related disease of Alzheimer's (and the most common dementia type) (Aljezawi et al., 2022; Mattos et al.

Global rural health disparities in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias: State of the science.

Introduction: Individuals living in rural communities are at heightened risk for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD), which parallels other persistent place-based health disparities. Identifying multiple potentially modifiable risk factors specific to rural areas that contribute to ADRD is an essential first step in understanding the complex interplay between various barriers and facilitators.

Methods: An interdisciplinary, international group of ADRD researchers convened to address the overarching question of: "What can be done to begin minimizing the rural health disparities that contribute uniquely to ADRD?" In this state of the science appraisal, we explore what is known about the biological, behavioral, sociocultural, and environmental influences on ADRD disparities in rural settings.

End-of-Life Care Planning in Diverse Individuals Across Age Groups: A Proposed Conceptual Model of Nursing.

Background: End-of-life planning helps nurses meet the needs of their patients at a crucial time of life.

Purpose: This article presents a conceptual model of end-of-life care planning for nurses, especially those in palliative and hospice care, focusing on holistic nursing views.

Methods: Based on a literature review, we developed a new conceptual model illustrating the concepts and dimensions of end-of-life care planning among diverse individuals across countries, life spans and age groups, ethnographies, and residential statuses.

Remotely supervised home-based online chair yoga intervention for older adults with dementia: Feasibility study.

Background: and Purpose: Social isolation and caregiver burden call for an innovative way to deliver a chair yoga (CY) intervention to older adults with dementia who cannot travel to a community center. During a remotely supervised CY session, the yoga instructor can monitor each participant's pose and correct poses to optimize efficacy of CY and reduce chances of injury. This study assessed the feasibility of a remotely supervised online CY intervention for older adults with dementia and explored the relationship between CY and clinical outcomes: pain interference, mobility, risk of falling, sleep disturbance, autonomic reactivity, and loneliness.