Core F: African American Outreach

核心F：非裔美国人外展核心项目摘要/摘要 非裔美国人外展核心（AAOC）支持华盛顿大学骑士的目标 阿尔茨海默病研究中心。AAOC努力增加Knight ADRC的多样性 参与者池通过招募非洲裔美国人（AAs），最大的少数民族群体在大都会圣路易斯 区AAOC协助招募和留住非裔美国人参与者，以支持所有骑士 ADRC研究和项目，定义和解决参与的障碍;评估和制定 建议在家庭环境中的痴呆症患者及其家属，并制定和提供 少数民族外展计划针对潜在的参与者，他们的家人和医疗保健提供者， 为AA社区服务。在这次续约中，AAOC将继续领导AA的招聘和保留 参与者与Knight ADRC组件密切合作，特别是通过与 临床和外展招聘和教育（OREC）核心和非洲裔美国人咨询委员会。 我们的目标是确保在加入Knight ADRC临床核心的新参与者中，至少有20%是 AA将Knight ADRC临床核心中AA参与者的百分比保持在17%或更高， 未来五年AAOC将继续进行家庭认知评估， 痴呆症诊断AA老年人，并解决任何障碍，参与我们的研究。在这 更新，我们有额外的目标来筛选，解决和修改移动性和/或安全问题（例如， 交通和受损驾驶，福尔斯风险，药物依从性）在我们的家庭痴呆症评估中 程序.

Core F: African American Outreach Core Project Summary/Abstract The African American Outreach Core (AAOC) supports the aims of the Washington University Knight Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. The AAOC strives to increase the diversity of the Knight ADRC participant pool by recruiting African Americans (AAs), the largest minority group in the metropolitan St. Louis area. The AAOC assists in the recruitment and retention of African American participants to support all Knight ADRC studies and projects, defines and addresses barriers to participation; evaluates and makes recommendations in the home setting to demented patients and their families, and develops and provides minority outreach programs targeted at potential participants, their families, and healthcare providers who serve the AA community. In this renewal, the AAOC will continue to lead recruitment and retention of AA participants in close collaboration with Knight ADRC components, particularly by being fully integrated with the Clinical and Outreach Recruitment and Education (OREC) Cores and the African American Advisory Board. Our goal is to ensure that of the new participants enrolled in the Knight ADRC Clinical Core, at least 20% are AA to maintain the percentage of AA participants in the Knight ADRC Clinical Core at 17% or higher through the next five years. The AAOC will continue to conduct home-based cognitive assessments to provide a dementia diagnosis to AA elderly and to address any barriers to participation in our research studies. In this renewal, we have the additional Aim to screen, address, and modify mobility and/or safety concerns (e.g., transportation and impaired driving, risk for falls, medication compliance) in our home dementia assessment program.