The COEQUAL Registry: Creating Opportunities to Increase Health Equity & Equality for Persons at Risk for AD/ADRD

Communities with the highest disease burden from Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) often experience considerable health disparities. These disparities are due to systematic and structural racism, classism, ageism, and social determinants of health, leading to distrust of and lower engagement with biomedical research. These injustices exacerbate disparities, ultimately leading to less generalizability of research findings. Therefore, we hypothesized that creating a culturally appropriate ADRD research registry called COEQUAL would increase underrepresented communities' engagement in ADRD research.