September 1, 2023
Career Development Awardees, Komal Patel Murali, PhD, and Tina Sadarangani, PhD, RN, write a call to action focusing on nursing’s role in prioritizing and improving care for people with AD/ADRD in ethnically diverse communities. As the AD/ADRD population grows and diversifies and the caregiving crisis looms, the time has come to move away from the oft-repeated mantra that ethnically diverse communities “take care of their own” and retire assumptions that diverse families in America can remain resilient in the absence of community supports. Nurses must receive the necessary education and training to become experts in community-based care for caregivers and use cultural sensitivity in their approaches.