Abstract
While there exists a relative paucity of completed healthcare directives nationally in the USA, even fewer exist within minority populations. This report describes one model for bringing advance care planning and discussions to American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) communities. In 2018, Honoring Choices of Minnesota approached the Center of American Indian and Minority Health (CAIMH), housed in the University of Minnesota Medical School, to collaborate on a project to increase healthcare directives in AIAN communities. CAIMH assembled AIAN students, faculty and community members to identify and address barriers to healthcare directive completion and discussions about end-of-life choices. The project team decided upon a two-pronged approach: culturally informed provider training paralleling culturally relevant community engagement. We aimed to empower AIAN to engage with healthcare providers on decisions impacting their care. To further support AIAN patients and their providers, a toolkit was created and will soon be available for dissemination
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Article number | 6845 |
| Journal | Rural and remote health |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:CAIMH acknowledges that we work and live on the ancestral and current lands of the Ojibwe people. We thank our tribal and community partners for making this project possible. In honor of their sovereignty, we respect their request to remain individually unnamed. We also thank Honoring Choices of Minnesota for their financial and professional support of this project
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022,Rural and Remote Health.All Rights Reserved
Keywords
- Advance care planning
- American indian alaska native
- End of life
- Healthcare directive
- Native american
- Usa
PubMed: MeSH publication types
- Journal Article
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
