Latinos are 1.5 times more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease than their white counterparts, but make up a small fraction of participants in the research. One common barrier is language.
Purple lights, marigolds, and altars are the center of most Día de los Muertos celebrations across the country.Equity for Latinx/Hispanic Healthy Aging Lab at UCLA"We don't want to recreate what our community is doing, like there have been doing this for a very long time, and we're just here to add the brain health component and enhance what they're doing," said neuropsychologist and the lab's founder Mirella Díaz-Santos.
"We hope to empower the community to be like, 'Okay, I actually understand what mechanisms contribute to me, like living a healthy life, and now I want to bring that information and be an advocate for myself,'" said clinical research coordinator Aisha Mohammed. "Setting up their own altars ... your prefrontal cortex is working, so that's getting their brain stimulated," explained senior research associate Stephanie Ovalle-Eliseo.
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