Patty Takawira
👤 PersonAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Then, right, then there's the issue of, is there a more, you know, especially for communities that are kind of marginalized and aren't, you know, maybe trusting of these, you know, unless it's like in their cultural,
in their language or, you know, it's more of a cultural resource, like then they're, then they're going to probably feel more comfortable going to where they always go, which is, you know, maybe their community center or whatever people have their trusted places where they go.
So we need to be able to, we need to equip those places with accurate information so that it can be disseminated in the
the right language, you know, in the right way.
And we have a bunch of partners doing that work, which is so exciting, especially Clarence, you mentioned VOA, and they are, they've worked with us for a while on this.
They have a mobile memory clinic, which is the only mobile memory care clinic in the country, as far as I know, or at least it was.
you know, back in 2020 and guessing it still is.
Um, but they're also like equipping, um, uh, barbers and hairstylists to be able to share accurate information about dementia for just the general community caregivers.
they're a trusted source of information and they're seeing people all the time.
So it's not just about, you know, it's about being dementia friendly, like being able to support someone who's living with dementia to be able to get their hair done.
You've got people coming in talking about taking care of their, their loved one and they don't know what to do next.
It kind of has the, you know, made me think of the,
it's a higher disease rates, but it's also lower diagnosis and later diagnosis.
That's, and I think this is what really concerns me is that if there are going to be new emerging treatments that can, you know, change the trajectory or delay cognitive decline.