11 Jan Bridging the gap: Alzheimer’s research seeks to understand impact on African American community

By Courtny Gerrish, Spectrum News 1

WISCONSIN — A growing study in Wisconsin is focused on understanding Alzheimer’s disease and its impact on the African American community.

The study is expanding to include more participants and aims to bridge the research gap for a community that’s disproportionately affected by the disease.

The “African-Americans Fighting Alzheimer’s in Midlife” study, or AA-FAIM, is the subset of a bigger study by the Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute (WAI). The goal is to slow down the disease in midlife and hopefully prevent it entirely.

“This is what we’re really about is serving the community, having solutions that work for our participants and for the communities that they come from,” said Sterling Johnson, associate director of the WAI. Read more…