EMPOWER!: Brain Health Education to Promote Early Detection of Alzheimer’s and Cognitive Screening

GSA 2025 Abstract

Abstract

Introduction: Black older adults are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). They are also more likely to have delayed or missed diagnoses of ADRD, because of lower cognitive screening rates during the earliest stages of the disease. To address these gaps, we developed the EMPOWER!

The paper

Veronica S. Derricks, Sarah VanHeiden, Jane Musema,
Show 3 more authorsMiriam Jocelyn Rodriguez, Patricia Garcia, Sophia S Wang,
Christopher Carey

University of Colorado Boulder · Indiana University School of Medicine

GSA 2025 Abstract · 31 Dec 2025 · CC BY

Presented at GSA 2025

doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaf122.1202