Availability of Primary Care Physicians in North Dakota
Examines where doctors are practicing by rurality and their abilities.

University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences Graduates' Residencies and Current Practice Areas
Examines where University of North Dakota graduates are practicing and where they did their residency.

Assessment of the North Dakota Dementia Care Services Program
Discusses the North Dakota Dementia Care Services Program which works to increase caregiver knowledge about dementia, caregiving, and decrease caregiver stress.

Care Consultation Distances to Potential Caregivers: Weighted Population Estimates
Discusses the North Dakota Dementia Care Services Program which works to increase caregiver knowledge about dementia, caregiving, and decrease caregiver stress.

Scrubs Camps: Growing the Program That's Growing Our Own
The Rural Collaborative Opportunities for Occupational Learning in Health (R-COOL-Health) Scrubs Camps began in 2009 as a mini-grant program focused on introducing rural North Dakota students to various careers in healthcare. If you fast-forward four years, you will clearly see that the 41 camps involving 184 communities and over 2,600 kids have touched people in every corner of the state.

Team Boosters: A Bright Spot for Rural North Dakotans is the Increasing Role that Advanced Practice Providers Play in Primary Care
The Association of American Medical Colleges estimates that by 2020 there will be 45,000 too few primary care physicians. These shortages are exacerbated in rural North Dakota, where communities can spend tens of thousands of dollars and years recruiting a physician.

Elder Abuse in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
This fact sheet summarizes the percentage of American Indian/Alaska Native elders that would utilize elder programs that could assist in preventing elder abuse. In addition, the percentage of American Indian/Alaska Native elders that would take advantage of caregiver, financial assistance, legal assistance, personal care, and transportation programs if they were offered by their respective tribes.

Native Aging Visions, Spring 2013
Newsletter developed by the National Resource Center on Native American Aging.