The NRCNAA supports The Journal of Native Aging and Health, which contains peer-reviewed articles that address Native aging, health and related issues. Pamela J. Kalbfleisch from the University of North Dakota School of Communication is the editor. To subscribe or submit an article, please visit http://www.und.nodak.edu/dept/scomm/jnah.html, email Yearbook@und.edu, or call (701) 777-2673.
Native Aging Visions
The NRCNAA creates and disseminates the Native Aging Visions newsletter, which provides information on current aging issues and activities of the Center. We are always looking for articles from Native elders regarding health and social programs, ideas or special people in your community.
Please feel free to mail, fax, or e-mail us your information. Also, if you would like to be added to the mailing list, please contact: (800) 896-7628 or: kruliffson@medicine.nodak.edu
The publication is disseminated to over 3,500 Native elders, aging organizations tribes (including pueblos and Rancherias), villages, homelands, and others interested.
Fact Sheets are produced and distributed with the Native Aging Visions. They include analysis of the national data from the Identifying our Needs: A Survey of Elders to point report the trends and offer recommendations.
Arthritis in American Indian and Alaska Native Elders, Summer 2006
Arthritis affects 43 million U.S adults (one in five), making it one of the most prevalent diseases (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2006). As the population ages, this number will increase dramatically.
The Elders’ Obesity Challenge, Fall 2005
Obesity is an increasingly prominent threat to good health among all Americans, contributing to an estimated 400,000 deaths annually and costing about $122.9 billion, a figure that is comparable to the economic costs of cigarette smoking.
Informal Caregivers: Challenges in Providing Care, Spring 2004
Family caregiving is experiencing significant growth as the U.S. population ages. Care is also shifting away from institutions to home and community based care. Family-based
care is an important component in the array of services available to the aged.
Gender Differences in Health Risks Amongst Native Elderly, Spring 2003
The purpose of this study is to determine if differences in health risks exist between men and women in the elderly Native American and Alaskan Native population.
Functional Limitations and the Future Needs for Long Term Care, April 2002
In this analysis we examine functional limitations among Native American elders using data collected across the nation in the program for conducting local needs assessments entitled
“Identifying Our Needs: A Survey of Elders.”
Motor Vehicle Crashes Involving Rural Native American Elders, January 2001
Motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) take a large toll among members of the American Indian and Alaskan Native communities. Previous studies have found the rates of MVC mortality to be
highest among American Indians and Alaska Natives, compared to other ethnic groups.
Policy Recommendations for Native Elders, June 2005
Prepared for the National Congress of American Indians 2005 Mid-year Conference held in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
National Family Caregiver Support Program: North Dakota's American Indian Caregivers, June 2003
This report contains the American Indian Caregivers from five reservations in North Dakota as part of the National Family Caregivers Support Program. The report parallels data
collected on the general population and uses the statewide survey as a benchmark. Both informal and grandparent caregivers are analyzed describing their characteristics, access to, attitudes toward and use of services in an effort to define avenues that will improve the quality of family
caregivers.
Healthy Traditions: Recipes of our Ancestors, November 2004
A compilation of recipes gathered through the National Resource Center on Native American Aging's traditional recipe project.
Long Term Care Toolkit Project, September 2002
The purpose of the tool kit was to describe the full array of home, community based, and institutional long term care to assist American Indian and Alaskan Native groups with planning, developing, and implementing their long term care services.
