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RESOURCES

Research Publications

Raina L Croff, PhD, Phelps Witter IV, BS, Miya L Walker, BS, Edline Francois, BA, Charlie Quinn, BS, Thomas C Riley, BS, Nicole F Sharma, BA, Jeffrey A Kaye, MD, Things Are Changing so Fast: Integrative Technology for Preserving Cognitive Health and Community History, The Gerontologist, Volume 59, Issue 1, February 2019, Pages 147–157. https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gny069

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Croff, R., Aron, S., Wachana, A., Fuller, P., Mattek, N., Towns, J., Kaye, J. Walking and Social Reminiscence in Gentrifying Neighborhoods: Feasibility and impact on cognitive, physical, and mental health among older Black adults in the SHARP study. The Gerontologist. DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnae019

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Carder, P., Croff, R., Tuttle, A., Towns, J. (2022) Walking and Talking: Recommendations for Doing Mobile Interviews with Older Adults. Journal of Aging and Environment, DOI: 10.1080/26892618.2022.2030844

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Croff, R., Hedmann, M., Barnes, LL. Whitest City in America: A Smaller Black Community’s Experience of Gentrification, Displacement, and Aging in Place, The Gerontologist, March 2021; gnab041, https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnab041

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Denny A, Streitz M, Stock K, Balls-Berry JE, Barnes LL, Byrd GS, Croff R, Gao S, Glover CM, Hendrie HC, Hu WT, Manly JJ, Moulder KL, Stark S, Thomas SB, Whitmer R, Wong R, Morris JC, Lingler JH. Perspective on the “African American participation in Alzheimer disease research: Effective strategies” workshop, 2018. Alzheimer's Dement. 2020; 1– 11. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.12160.

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Towns, J., Fuller, P., Francois, E., Croff, R. L., & Kaye, J. (2019). WALKING AND TALKING ABOUT WHAT USED TO BE: THE SHARP NEIGHBORHOOD WALKING PROGRAM FOR OLDER AFRICAN AMERICANS. Innovation in Aging, 3(Suppl 1), S517. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.1907

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Parris, Chanelle P., "Gentrification and Aging-in-Place: Examinations of the Older African American Population in Portland, OR" (2019). University Honors Theses. Paper 766.
https://doi.org/10.15760/honors.784


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Walker, Miya, "Using Cultural Relevancy to Promote African American Brain Health" (2017). University Honors Theses. Paper 437. https://doi.org/10.15760/honors.434

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Media Publications

National Coverage

Associated PressBlack seniors test reminiscing to guard against Alzheimer's
National Institutes of Health NewsroomWalking, talking, and thinking about brain and body health
Documentary film directed by Renee Chenault-FattahIn our right mind: Alzheimer’s and dementia’s impact on communities of color
*Features the SHARP study and an interview with Dr. Croff 
AlzForum - Alzheimer's researchers seek advice on how to include African-Americans

Regional Coverage

COMMUNITY RESOURCES

The Brain Health Community Resource website is currently being tested and developed with 12 older African Americans in Portland, Oregon. The resource seeks to honor our health and history. It will include information about African American healthy aging alongside culturally celebratory images and narratives gathered from the SHARP study.  Weaving Black history with brain health information can make learning more relatable and meaningful, and may make brain health content easier to recall and apply. 

Stay tuned. We will link our Community Resource site here when it's ready.

COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD

PreSERVE Coalition for African American Memory and Brain Health provides cultural consultation and a community platform to help disseminate SHARP findings to Portland, Oregon’s older African American community members, including through the annual PreSERVE/SHARP Talk n’ Taste Community Learning Sessions

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SHARP Newsletter Archive

Below are past editions of the "Honoring Our Health & History" newsletter

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