Healthy behaviors related to heart disease, diabetes, nutrition, physical activity, hearing, sleep, and traumatic brain injury can also reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias. In partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this project adapts existing chronic disease risk reduction messages to include information about how these behaviors can also reduce the risk for cognitive decline. This project aligns with the call to action in the most recent version of the Healthy Brain Initiative Roadmap, which is to integrate best available evidence about brain health and cognitive decline risk factors into existing health communications that promote health and chronic disease management for people across the lifespan.
Public health professionals from various chronic disease programs can work together to promote the inclusion of brain health messages into chronic disease risk reduction programs. The Integrating Alzheimer’s Messages into Chronic Disease Programs Guide will help you identify ways to collaborate with other programs and integrate messages about brain health into existing disease risk reduction communications.
Chronic disease risk reduction messages that promote brain health.
RESOURCES FOR CAREGIVERS
This project is funded by CDC’s Division of Cancer Prevention and Control through the CDC Center of State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support and managed by NACDD. This project examines non-traditional cancer risk factors to develop innovative resources to empower public health practitioners to put evidence-based cancer prevention strategies into action in their communities using a lifespan approach. The second year of this five-year project examines Caregiver Stress as a key focus area for cancer prevention.