Manka Nkimbeng
University of Minnesota, MN·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Immigrants to the United States, or 'New Americans,' will soon make up a large share of older adults. Like U.S.-born high-risk older adults, they face a higher risk of poor health outcomes from dementia.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
Psychology
- Topics
dementia
informal caregivers
family caregivers
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Apr 2027
What they work on
- Explore the experiences and care strategies of high-risk New American older adults with dementia and their informal family caregivers.
- Adapt Active Caregiving: Empowering Skills (ACES), an evidence-based caregiver skills program, for New American families. The adaptation will use these findings and the Ecological Validity Model, a framework for cultural tailoring.
- Determine whether the adapted ACES intervention is feasible and acceptable to community-dwelling New American older adults with dementia and their caregivers, through a feasibility study.
More about the research
Yet few dementia care or caregiving programs have been adapted for them, and past adaptations were not done or documented systematically. This career development award pairs mentored training with a research project. The project aims to tailor an established caregiver program to New American families living with dementia.
Why it matters
New American older adults with dementia and their family caregivers carry a heavy and growing health burden, yet few programs address their needs. An adapted caregiver program that fits their culture and circumstances could be a first step toward better health for these families. The project also responds to recognized gaps in understanding how immigration affects dementia care.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Kalisha Johnson
Emory University, GA·Medicine & Clinical Research·Early-career
Examine how behavioral, sociocultural and environmental factors shape formal care decisions and quality of life among African American people living with dementia and their adult daughter caregivers, using dyadic data analysis.
Yeonsu Song
University of California-Los Angeles, CA·Medicine & Clinical Research
Culturally adapt an existing cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBTI) program for older Korean immigrants with limited English, using established cultural adaptation strategies and feedback from community stakeholders and participants.
David Hancock
Weill Medical College of Cornell University, NY·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Develop and refine candidate items for the EM-AD, a new measure of elder mistreatment tailored to dementia family caregivers, using feedback from caregivers and geriatric professionals to establish that the items cover the right content.
The school
University of Minnesota: 88 labs on PI Pages, $1.4B a year on research, 722 research doctorates a year.
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