News from the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences
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Nexstar Media Group’s News Nation outlet recently highlighted Dr. Collette Adamsen, associate director of the UND Center for Rural Health, as a “Remarkable Women” nominee (one of only 125 nominees from across the country). The news organization also produced and posted an interview with Adamsen. Adamsen began working at the NRCNAA in 2015 as a […]
The National Resource Center on Native American Aging celebrates 30 years and shows no signs of slowing down. How can data help put food on the tables of Native Elders? This was one of many questions that officials at the National Resource Center on Native American Aging (NRCNAA) asked 30 years ago when their organization […]
Native Elders living in urban locations have needs that are not being met. This finding is significant because over 70% of Elders live in urban areas, not on reservations. This conclusion is a result of the first ever Native Urban Elder Needs Assessment Survey (NUENAS 1.0), which was administered nationally through the National Resource Center […]
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The Navajo Nation is hoping a needs assessment survey can help shape real change for Native Elders Often driving on dirt roads, meal delivery drivers provide a much needed lifeline for the elderly population of the Navajo Nation. In rural locations where phone lines are rare and Internet connections are rarer, when an elderly individual […]
An article by Collette Adamsen, PhD, director of the National Resource Center on Native American Aging (NRCNAA) and Shawnda Schroeder, PhD, assistant professor at the UND Center for Rural Health, has been selected for a special collection by the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) electronic journal Preventing Chronic Disease. The article, entitled Education, Income, and […]
Collette Adamsen, PhD, director the National Resource Center on Native American Aging (NRCNAA) at the UND Center for Rural Health, recently received the first installment of a 25-month, $385,000 American Association of Retired Persons award entitled “Urban Indian Elder Project.” “Your research not only extends to your own professional and scholarly endeavors, but also contributes […]