2019 GSA Preconference: Strategies for Successful Recruitment and Retention of Minority Elders: An NIA Priority Area
In this workshop,
- Experts in recruiting and retaining Black/African American, Asian, Native, Arab, and Latino elder populations into health research shared strategies for overcoming barriers to recruitment, encouraging retention, and addressed concerns about the collection of biospecimens.
- Participants learned strategies for Internet-based, in-person, and print-based recruitment and discussed approaches to study design and implementation that maximize retention of minority elder study participants over time, and
- NIA representatives shared the Institute’s National Strategy of Recruitment, together with recently developed recruitment tools.
Agenda
Wednesday, November 13, 2019
| 8:00 am – 8:15 am |
Welcome/Introductions Lourdes Guerrero, EdD, MSW, Co-Director, RCMAR National Coordinating Center Jonathan King, PhD, Program Director, Individual Behavioral Processes Branch Division of Behavioral and Social Research, National Institute on Aging/National Institutes of Health |
| 8:15 am – 8:30 am | Framing the Day and Keynote Introduction Nina T. Harawa, MPH, PhD, Outgoing Co-Director, RCMAR National Coordinating Center |
| 9:30 am – 10:15 am | The HEARD Study: A Qualitative Understanding of Barriers to and Facilitators of Brain Donation among Diverse Older Adults Speaker: Crystal M. Glover, PhD, Social Psychologist and Outreach, Recruitment, and Engagement Core Leader Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Rush Medical College |
| 10:15 am – 11:15 am | Community Perspectives on Recruitment and Retention of Minority Elders Panelists:
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| 11:15 am – 12:00 pm | Healthier Black Elders Center Participant Registry–Partnering with the Community on Aging and Health Research Speaker: Peter Lichtenberg, PhD, Director Institute of Gerontology and Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR)/RCMAR, University of Michigan | Wayne State University | Michigan State University |
| 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Lunch Hosted by AARP |
| 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm | Recruiting Minority Adults through Electronic Technology Speaker: Celia Kaplan, DrPH, MERC and CADC Coordinator, Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations, Center for Aging in Diverse Communities (CADC)/RCMAR, University of California, San Francisco |
| 1:45 pm – 2:30 pm | Breakout Small group discussion of plans, challenges, and recruitment gems |
| 2:30 pm – 2:45 pm | Break |
| 2:45 pm – 3:30 pm | Lessons learned recruiting in Arab and Latino immigrant communities for Alzheimer’s disease research Speaker: Kristine Ajrouch, PhD, Director, Michigan Center for Contextual Factors in Alzheimer’s Disease (MCCFAD)/RCMAR Wayne State University |
| 3:30 pm – 4:15 pm | Lessons learned in the recruitment and retention of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders Speaker: Mele Look, Director, Community Engagement, Department of Native Hawaiian Health John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai’i |
| 4:15 pm – 4:30 pm | Closing/Evaluations/Action Plans Nina T. Harawa, MPH, PhD |