Dementia

Indigenous Strengths-Based Approaches To Healthcare And Health Professions Education–Recognising The Value Of Elders’ Teachings

Health Education Journal 2022

Authors: Andrea Kennedy 1, Anika Sehgal 2, Joanna Szabo 1, Katharine McGowan 3, Gabrielle Lindstrom 4, Pamela Roach 5, Lynden Lindsay Crowshoe 5, Cheryl Barnabe 6

Healthcare professionals are often taught and supported in approaches that perpetuate inequity for Indigenous peoples; ignoring Indigenous strengths, disregard human rights, and reproduce structural inequalities. Identified are strategies offering a promising means to advance Indigenous health equity through strengths-based actions that change existing narratives and advance health equity.

Relational Learning With Indigenous Communities: Elders’ And Students’ Perspectives On Reconciling Indigenous Service-Learning

Advances in Theory and Methodology 2020

DOI: 10.37333/001c.18585

Authors: Andrea Kennedy, Katharine McGowan, Gabrielle Lindstrom, Christian Cook, Yasmin Dean, James Stauch, Cheryl Barnabe, Stephen Price

The core purpose of relational learning with Indigenous communities translates to maintaining good relations through humility, respect, honesty, and reciprocity while responding to the interconnected priorities of the land, traditional ways, Elders, and common language. Study findings signal decolonizing opportunities for relational learning with Indigenous communities.

Urban Indigenous Experiences Of Living With Early-Onset Dementia: A Qualitative Study In Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Journal of Neurology Research 2022

DOI: 10.14740/jnr713

Authors: Meagan Ody, Cathryn Rodrigues, Parkash Banwait, Lynden Crowshoe

More research is needed on the experiences of Indigenous people with dementia, including Early on-set dementia (EOD), and of their families who care for them. Through a better understanding of the Indigenous experiences of dementia, urban healthcare providers can be more aware of the needs of urban Indigenous people living with dementia, and specifically EOD, and may face and plan to co-design health services accordingly.

Indigenous-specific cultural safety within health and dementia care: A scoping review of reviews

CRKN Elsevier Additional Journals 2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114658

Authors: Christina Chakanyuka, Juanita-Dawne R Bacsu, Andrea DesRoches, Jessy Dame, Leah Carrier, Paisly Symenuk, Megan E O'Connell, Lynden Crowshoe, Jennifer Walker, Lisa Bourque Bearskin

Globally, health inequities experienced by Indigenous communities are often described and documented in terms of deficits and disease. However, health disparities are complex and involve numerous underlying issues beyond the social determinants of health. Indigenous Peoples face unique barriers to accessing culturally safe and equitable healthcare, including racism, systemic injustice, and a historical legacy of colonialism. There is a paucity of knowledge on Indigenous-specific cultural safety interventions to support health and dementia care...

Propelled By The Pandemic: Responses And Shifts In Primary Healthcare Models For Indigenous Peoples

Healthcare Policy 2022

DOI: 10.12927/hcpol.2022.26826

Authors: Cheryl Barnabe, Stephanie Montesanti, Chris Sarin, Tyler White, Reagan Bartel, Rita Henderson, Andrea Kennedy, Adam Murry, Pamela Roach, Lynden Crowshoe