Brain Health, Dementia, and Cognitive Care Navigation
Supporting conversations about memory, caregiving, and brain health
Brain health conversations can be difficult to start. Families may have questions about memory loss, aging, caregiving, dementia, or where to turn for help, but stigma, fear, cost, transportation, language, or lack of trusted information can make support harder to reach.
Community Circles help bring these conversations into familiar settings where people can ask questions, share concerns, learn from one another, and identify resources that feel safe and practical. The goal is to support earlier awareness, stronger caregiver connections, and better navigation to trusted services.
What We Explore
What Can Participants Expect?
Brain Health Community Circles are designed to be respectful, plain-language, and supportive. Participants do not need to be experts. They may be caregivers, family members, older adults, service providers, advocates, or community members who want to better understand brain health and local support options.
The Circle format helps people share experience, identify trusted resources, and name practical barriers that partners can address. Public learning from the Circle should protect privacy and focus on shared themes, not personal medical details.
WHO ARE PART OF US?
Partners and Community Champions can help connect families to trusted brain health information, caregiver supports, screening resources, community education, and navigation pathways. Champions may also help identify trusted places where memory and caregiving conversations can happen in ways that feel welcoming and culturally respectful.
By listening to community experience, Brain Health Circles can help partners better understand where people get stuck, what resources are missing, and how to make next steps easier to understand.
Help make brain health conversations easier to start. Join a future Brain Health Circle, nominate a caregiver or community champion, suggest a trusted gathering place, or partner with CHI to support education, navigation, and caregiver connection