June is Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month

Did you know:
-Over 55 million people worldwide are living with Alzheimer's or dementia
-Over 6.5 million of those are living in the United States
-More than 11 million people in the U.S. are unpaid caregivers for someone with Alzheimer's

FHSLA is proud to share the below resources from the Alzheimer' Association and the CDC.
These resources can assist researchers and health science librarians interested promoting brain health or learning more about the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. 

CDC provides a new data analysis and the Washington State Department of Health describes how they are embracing a whole agency approach to promote healthy aging and address brain health in this webinar.
Credit: Alzheimer's Association

This webinar provided an overview of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), focusing on descriptions of both the Cognitive Decline and Caregiver modules, and examples of previous analyses and analytic tools.
​Credit: Healthy Aging and Alzheimer's Disease Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.