Caring for Native American Elders: Grasslands

虐待老年人是美洲原住民社区关注的一个问题。该应用程序是一个更大的、积极的研究计划的一部分，该计划旨在为面临虐待风险的美洲原住民老年人开发、实施和评估家庭会议模型。这个更大项目的一个重要目标是开发一种模式，可以被美国各地的其他部落社区采用。到目前为止，我们只与蒙大拿州的一个部落社区进行了广泛的合作。在将这种干预扩展到我们不熟悉的其他部落之前，我们需要进行社区进入，并获得初步数据，确定草原社会结构的各个方面，包括看门人、正式和非正式的结构和网络，以及社区成员是否认为虐待老年人是一个问题。该项目的目的是进行前期工作，以便能够将关爱美洲原住民老年人项目全面推广到草原保护区。具体目标是：1.收集背景和背景信息，以：a.确定关键的社区领导人、结构、网络和优势。突出规划和实施FCC模式。描述关于虐待老年人的规模、形式和当前部落管理策略的看法。2.实施和评估最多三项FCC干预措施，以：a.确定和解决实施FCC草原老年人干预措施所需的后勤和可行性问题。B.确定建立部落间FCC调解人支助小组的可行性。内容和流程数据将从多个来源收集，包括指导性访谈(个人和团体)、观察(直接和参与者)以及可在公共领域找到或由项目生成的文件。将进行定性内容分析以及形成性和总结性评价。最终，将通过R01机制对保留地进行FCC干预的全面、多地点测试。

Elder abuse is a problem of concern among Native American communities. This application is part of a larger, active program of research to develop, implement, and evaluate models for family conferences for Native American elders at risk of mistreatment. An important goal of the larger project is to develop a model that may be adapted by other tribal communities across the US. To date, we have worked extensively with only one Tribal community in Montana. Before extending this intervention to other tribes unfamiliar to us, we need to conduct community entry and obtain preliminary data identifying aspects of the Grasslands (GL) social structure, including gatekeepers, formal and informal structures and networks,, and whether elder abuse is perceived by community members as a problem. The purpose of this project is to conduct the preliminary work to be able to extend the Caring for Native American Elders project full-scale to the Grasslands Reservation. The specific aims are to: 1. Gather background and contextual information to: a. Identify key community leaders, structures, networks, and strengths .salient for planning and implementing the FCC model. b. Describe the perceptions of elder abuse with regard to magnitude, forms, and current tribal management strategies. 2. Implement and evaluate up to three FCC interventions to: a. Identify and address logistical and feasibility issues necessary for implementing the FCC intervention for Grasslands elders. b. Determine the feasibility of establishing an intertribal FCC facilitator support group. Content and process data will be collected from multiple sources including guided interviews (individual and group), observation (direct and participant), and documents that can be found either in the public domain or that are project generated. Qualitative content analysis and formative and summative evaluations will be performed. Ultimately, a full-scale, multi-site test of the FCC intervention will be conducted on reservations through the R01 mechanism.