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dc.contributor.author | Austrins, Clara | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-06-26T15:39:05Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2024-06-26T15:39:05Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2024-04-20 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/29895 | - |
dc.description | Clara Austrins (she/her) is a White settler of European ancestry and a cisgender woman. She lives and works on A Dish with One Spoon Treaty Territory. She is thankful for the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe Peoples who traditionally live on the land she currently resides upon as an uninvited guest. Clara has been working under the supervision of Dr. Jennifer Walker since December 2023 on projects related to Indigenous wellbeing, biomedical research, and Indigenous data sovereignty. She is working in this field as she finds it incredibly enlightening to learn and listen to Indigenous ways of knowing. She also finds Indigenous ways of wellbeing to be beautifully holistic and hopes to reflect this in future aspirations related to healthcare. Clara recognizes the daily impacts of colonization upon Indigenous Peoples and hopes to contribute to literature reducing the deficit-based approach to Indigenous research. She is learning from Dr. Walker to reduce the stereotyping and marginalization of Indigenous Peoples in research that is founded in communities’ needs and results in action. She is grateful to have learned from meetings with Dr. Jennifer Walker, Julia Rowat, Niki Naponse with Za-Geh-Do-Win Information Clearinghouse and First Nations community members at the Indigenous Dementia Research Conference. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | As Canada’s population ages, the number of individuals living with dementia is expected to increase. Between April 2020 and March 2021, nearly 477,000 people above age 65 were living with diagnosed dementia in Canada. It is thought that there were likely many more undiagnosed cases within the population (Public Health Agency of Canada, 2024), indicating a need to better screen for and diagnose dementia. In North America, some Indigenous populations show a higher prevalence of dementia than non-Indigenous populations (Jacklin, Walker, and Shawande, 2013; Mayeda et al., 2016). Specifically, dementia prevalence in First Nations people in Alberta is higher than in non-First Nations populations and increasing more rapidly (Jacklin, Walker, and Shawande, 2013). Current widely used cognitive assessments do not account for culture, colonization, or health and social inequalities (Jacklin et al., 2020). This highlights the need for a culturally appropriate cognitive assessment, hence the creation of the Canadian Indigenous Cognitive Assessment (CICA), modeled after the Kimberley Indigenous Cognitive Assessment (KICA) from Australia (LoGiudice et al., 2006; Jacklin et al., 2020; Walker et al., 2021; Marsh et al., 2023). The goal of this paper is to highlight key considerations realized during the implementation process of the CICA and what future work is required for its successful use in communities. Work was done through Dr. Walker’s research team that is partnered with the Anishinabek Nation and Za-Geh-Do-Win Information Clearinghouse. Results were informed by the Indigenous Dementia Research Conference on January 29 - February 1, 2024, where many First Nations community members came together to discuss the impacts of dementia and CICA implementation. The results of this research can provide guidance on the opportunities and challenges when implementing a culturally appropriate tool in First Nations communities in Ontario. This paper also highlights what future steps and research might be needed to better support Indigenous people living with dementia and their communities. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | n/a | en_US |
dc.subject | Indigenous | en_US |
dc.subject | Kimberley Indigenous Cognitive Assessment | en_US |
dc.subject | Canadian Indigenous Cognitive Assesment | en_US |
dc.subject | Dementia | en_US |
dc.subject | Screening tool | en_US |
dc.subject | Culturally appropriate cognitive assessment | en_US |
dc.title | Implementation Process for the Canadian Indigenous Cognitive Assessment | en_US |
dc.type | Undergraduate thesis | en_US |
dc.contributor.department | Health and Aging | en_US |
Appears in Collections: | iSci Level 4 Undergraduate Theses |
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