| Center for Outreach in Alzheimer’s, Aging and Community Health at N.C. A&T is one of six North Carolina groups honored by AARP with its 2015 Multicultural Outreach Award in recognition for their work in promoting greater health and economic prosperity.
“COAACH is working to advance healthy aging in all communities,” AARP said in announcing the awards. “COAACH promotes the science and the application of healthy aging through research, education, capacity building, and empowerment so that individuals, particularly the most vulnerable, can live life with quality, dignity, and independence.
“Skills learned at the community center will lessen the financial and emotional burden for everyone involved with patients with Alzheimer’s and dementia. COAACH is committed to making helpful resources available to caregivers, affected individuals, and community stakeholders.”
Debra Tyler Horton of AARP said the awards event was held at the International Civil Rights Museum “to draw attention to the continued struggle for equality when it comes to our personal health and wealth. Great disparities still exist when looking at the earnings, savings and the health care of minority populations in the state.”
The COAACH center grew out of research conducted at A&T on health disparities involving Alzheimer’s disease.
AARP’s other Multicultural Award Winners for 2015 are the North Carolina Indian Economic Development Initiative, the Universal Institute for Successful Aging of Carolinas, Healing with CAARE, Gdavis Productions, and the Latin American Coalition.
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