Developing an Ethnographic Community‐Based Participatory Research Dementia Study with Diverse Indigenous Populations: Indigenous Cultural understandings of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias – Research and Engagement (ICARE) project

Dementia diagnoses have been increasing in Indigenous populations for over a decade and have now surpassed rates in non‐Indigenous populations in both Canada and the U.S. Prevalence rates of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) are approximately 3 times higher in Indigenous populations compared to White populations, with a 10‐year earlier onset . The ICARE project (NIH –5R56‐AG‐62307‐2) qualitatively explores the impact of ADRD in Indigenous populations across four diverse sites in Canada and the United States.