The Center for Brain Health Equity created by UsAgainstAlzheimer’s with a $1.5 million cooperative agreement with the CDC Healthy Brain Initiative, the Center for Brain Health Equity will help address racial and gender disparities associated with Alzheimer’s and other dementias. Black Americans are 2-3 times more likely to develop Alzheimer’s as Whites; Latinos are 1.5x as likely. And women make up 60% of all people living with Alzheimer’s and two-thirds of all caregiver. The Center will use data-based strategies from the National Alzheimer’s Disease Index, a new tool under development by UsAgainstAlzheimer’s that enables healthcare providers, public health professionals, researchers, and government leaders to analyze Alzheimer’s health statistics by geography and demographics.
