WELL-Balanced (Wise Elders Living Longer)
A health promotion program targeting Native elders with diabetes, arthritis, and hypertension as well as community based elders that have an interest in gaining knowledge and skills to reduce their risk of falling. The project will be piloted in Summer 2009 and more information will be available in the coming months.
Identifying Our Needs: A Survey of Elders
Assists tribes, villages, and homelands in creating a record of the health and social needs of their elders. This can help tribes with data needed for their Title VI nutrition and caregiving grants awarded from the Administration on Aging (AoA) and can also help with tribal planning, long-term care discussions, and grant-writing.
Completed Projects
Native Service Locator Project
That NRCNAA conducted phone calls in cooperation with the national resource centers in Alaska and Hawaii to define services that each tribe offers. The results is a nationwide interactive map that shows the location of Native elderly services.
Healthcare Needs of North Dakota American Indian Veterans
Conducted a statewide assessment of health status, healthcare access, and health risk of American Indian veterans residing on North Dakota’s four reservations and one Indian service area.
Native American Map for Elder Services (NAMES):
A Long Term Care Planning Tool Kit
A tool kit that fully describes the spectrum of long term care. NAMES was developed to assist American Indian and Alaskan Native groups with planning, developing, and implementing long term care services for their elderly within their communities. (Developed in 2002).
