From neighborhoods to brain health: an outreach model linking health literacy, cognitive care, research, and the arts, in San Francisco.

ABSTRACT: Traditional community outreach, research recruitment, and engagement strategies in aging neuroscience often fail to target and capture the diversity of structural and environmental conditions that shape the risk of age-related neurocognitive disorders (NCDs), including Alzheimer's disease. In this manuscript, we describe the rationale, implementation, and outcomes of the Community Outreach Program (COP) of the UCSF Fein Memory and Aging Center (MAC), emphasizing its neighborhood-based initiative designed to engage vulnerable populations to improve brain health literacy, access to cognitive care, and research inclusion among older adults living in underserved San Francisco neighborhoods. Guided by a social and environmental determinants of brain health framework, the program used neighborho

SUBMITTER: Lanata S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC13626907 | biostudies-literature | 2026

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature