Educating and Training Health Professionals: A Healthy Brain Initiative Issue Map

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• Corporate Authors:
  Alzheimer's Association ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  By 2050, nearly 14 million Americans may be living with Alzheimer’s dementia, an increase from the estimated 5.8 million in 2019.1 As the population affected by dementia grows, the public health, healthcare, and other workforces urgently need additional competencies for coping with this challenge. Strategies are needed to equip public health professionals with sound and credible information so that they are well-informed when engaging partners from multiple sectors including healthcare, community service groups, and the aging network. They also need to understand the best available evidence in order to perform their role assuring providers have essential competencies when caring for people with dementia.
• Subjects:
  Aged Aging Alzheimer Disease Alzheimer Disease/diagnosis Dementia Government Programs/organization & Administration Health Promotion/organization & Administration Mental Health
• Publisher:
  Alzheimer's Association
• Document Type:
  Text
• Name as Subject:
  Healthy Brain Initiative (HBI)
• Genre:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP)
• Division:
  Division of Population Health (DPH)
• Topic:
  Diseases & Conditions
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  4 numbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Public Health Resources
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:fb1ce8c370b1b1d1ab963829f125ffacb90e3f89cca821a7c6fce1d159714c5866e27c9e4245dfbf38e1ff13e87f51f8ebc7c1574738d4e8b313f75d423cc46b
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/83337/cdc_83337_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.18 MB ]