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ArticleThe Gerontologist2026

Words matter: an examination of terminology to define culturally informed dementia caregiving interventions.

Lauren J Parker, Manka Nkimbeng, Fayron Epps, Tony Stallings, Jaylah James, Ishan C Williams

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Article in The Gerontologist, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Lauren J ParkerDepartment of Health, Behavior, and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3143-2979
Manka NkimbengDivision of Health, Policy, and Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-7414-921X
Fayron EppsBuilding our Largest Dementia Infrastructure (BOLD) Public Health Center of Excellence on Dementia Caregiving, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
Tony StallingsBuilding our Largest Dementia Infrastructure (BOLD) Public Health Center of Excellence on Dementia Caregiving, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
Jaylah JamesBuilding our Largest Dementia Infrastructure (BOLD) Public Health Center of Excellence on Dementia Caregiving, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
Ishan C WilliamsSchool of Nursing, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8329-9225

Funding

Training Core (I)U54AG063546 · NIA · BROWN UNIVERSITY · PI Alexia Mary Torke · 2019 to 2026
$125.9M
Impact of Adult Day Services on Psychosocial and Physiological Measures of Stress among African American Dementia Family CaregiversK01AG066812 · NIA · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI PARKER, LAUREN · 2021 to 2025
$645k
NIA NIH HHS K01 AG066812NIA NIH HHS U54 AG063546NIH HHS U54AG063546
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite the documented reliance on family caregivers, systems and programming to support family caregivers are often not inclusive, nor do they provide culturally relevant opportunities. Cultural factors, in part, may be useful to understanding disparities in care outcomes and to inform support mechanisms for caregivers. However, there is lack of specificity of terminology to describe how culture is considered in dementia care interventions. The purpose of this Forum manuscript is to clarify the meaning of the terminology of culture (i.e., cultural tailoring, cultural adaptation) and to provide exemplars of evidenced-based supports that utilized the term in dementia caregiving support. This work aims to demonstrate the importance of culturally informed interventions to address disparities in care outcomes and to offer best practices to advance the science of culturally informed dementia care interventions.

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CaregiversCultural CompetencyCulturally Competent CareDementiaTerminology as TopicHumansCaregivingCultural adaptationCultural tailoringDementia care supportsDiversity

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PMID42093007
PMCPMC13213586

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