Patty Takawira

So if you are just kind of finding yourself in this role and it just feels like your familial duty and, and it's not all negative, right?

It's not like, oh, the burden, the,

Like it's hard and it feels hard, but you might not identify it with it being a burden, just like culturally that might not make any sense.

So I think the way, just like how we're talking about risk factors or earlier detection and diagnosis, it needs to be kind of a culturally community specific approach.

to connecting caregivers to resources.

And they really need resources.

And the other thing is that there are a lot of resources.

So this is where kind of our public health role in building clinical community linkages comes in.

Because if the provider, the care team really needs to know

what the resources are locally, culturally, and have a way to, to identify that people are a caregiver for one.

So that could be, you know, making sure that that caregiver is, because sometimes they're not really asked any questions in the visit.

And, you know, even if you're

like that sandwich generation caregiver and you're in your own primary care visit, wouldn't it be good to know someone's dealing with that and that it is a social determinant of health for chronic disease and that making sure that they're getting resources that they need.

So in my ideal world, like there's, there's these awesome connections happening between community resources and, and care teams and, and, you know, and then we can have a bunch of conversations about the community health worker role and,

building on that, so.

uh tap into that uh that resource yes I was going to say um you know in the show notes or at some point in this in this episode that we really need to point people to the 24 7 Alzheimer's Association hotline because that is like a a one-stop shop to get connected to support

Um, so even if, even if care teams are just aware of two things in Minnesota specifically would be the 24 seven Alzheimer's, you know, Alzheimer's association hotline, which, you know, they'll, they'll help get people connected to local resources.

And then the other is the senior linkage line because the senior linkage line can connect people to caregiver consultants, um, which is a program through department of human services.

So, um,

there are two really good kind of high level, like first points of contact that are really useful to know about, both general public and providers.