February 24, 2014

The Heavy Toll of Alzheimer's on African Americans - Dr. Darrell Gaskin

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The Heavy Toll of Alzheimer's on African Americans - Dr. Darrell Gaskin

About This Episode

A discussion with Dr. Darrell Gaskin, the Deputy Director of the Center for Health Disparities Solutions at John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, on the report entitled The Costs of Alzheimer's and other Dementias for African-Americans and Stephanie Monroe, Director of the AfricanAmericanNetworkAgainstAlzheimer's.

This call was made possible by the generous support of the Zickler Family Foundation.

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