The ongoing conversations surrounding the importance of minimal clinically important differences and descriptions of meaningful impacts must include the voices of those living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. To provide this perspective, members of the Alzheimer's Association Early Stage Advisory Group were asked to describe what matters most to them, their experiences with treatment, how they define meaningful care, and what would provide them with feelings of progress and hope. [...]

Disinvested Black communities in the US exhibit the highest levels of skepticism about the trustworthiness of medical institutions due to historical and ongoing structural racism, which the COVID-19 pandemic further exposed. Black individuals experienced a COVID-19 mortality rate 3.60 times higher than their white counterparts. This study investigates the mediating role of medical distrust between health beliefs and vaccine uptake among residents living in disinvested Black communities in New [...]

CONCLUSION: This research curriculum fills a need for a free, brief, accessible, and asynchronous online research training program for learners. The curriculum can be used to supplement existing research didactic training in professional programs, to support researchers reviewing specific research topics, and/or to introduce research concepts to inexperienced researchers, all of whom can receive an automatically generated certificate of completion. [...]