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    Black History Month – Ella Josephine Baker

    Black History Month

    Ella Josephine Baker was born 1903 in Norfolk, VA but reared in Littleton, North Carolina. In 1927 she graduated from Shaw University as valedictorian. In the early 1930s, in one of her first efforts at implementing social improvement, she helped organize the Young Negroes Cooperative League, which was created to form cooperative groups that would pool community […]

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  • Black History Month – William Augustus Hinton

    Black History Month

    William Augustus Hinton was born 1883 in Chicago. He was the youngest student to ever graduate from Kansas City High School. After high school, he studied at the University of Kansas, completing the three-year premed program in two years. Hinton continued undergraduate studies at Harvard, receiving a bachelor’s degree there in 1905. In 1909, he […]

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  • Black History Month – Ruth Ella Moore

    Black History Month

    Ruth Ella Moore was born 1903 in Ohio. Her mother was a successful artist and seamstress, and she taught Ruth how to sew (she would become known for her beautiful, hand-made garments), but also to put her education first and pursue higher education. And young Ruth did – earning her Bachelor’s in Science degree in […]

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  • Alzheimer’s Disease May Develop Differently In African-Americans, Study Suggests

    Alzheimer's in the News, Press

    Scientists have found a biological clue that could help explain why African-Americans appear to be more vulnerable than white Americans to Alzheimer’s disease. A study of 1,255 people, both black and white, found that cerebrospinal fluid from African-Americans tended to contain lower levels of a substance associated with Alzheimer’s, researchers report Monday in the journal JAMA Neurology. Read […]

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  • Caregivers Receive Training Through COAACH

    Press

    By Chanel Davis, Carolina Peacemaker Contributor Almost 30 participants from across the state participated in this week’s Center for Outreach in Alzheimer’s, Aging and Community Health (COAACH) Caregiver College at North Carolina A&T State University. The COAACH Caregiver College, also known as C3, is a community engaged and intervention based education program designed to improve […]

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Keeping Memories Alive Listening Parties

Every 66 seconds, someone develops Alzheimer’s Disease. There is no cure. It cannot be...

Research Publications

COAACH publishes several documents containing research on Alzheimer's, aging, and community health. We...

Community Events and Health Ambassadors

A major part of COAACH's work involves engagement and outreach with the community. ...

Advocacy in Alzheimer’s, Aging, and Community Health

Advocacy plays an important role in ensuring that all communities. Our advocacy work...

Older Adults and Health Care

Approximately 92% of older adults have at least one chronic disease, and 77% have at least two.
Older Americans spend twice as much as all consumers on health care.

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Center for Outreach in Alzheimer's, Aging, and Community Health
North Carolina A&T State University
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Greensboro, NC 27405
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Healthy Aging for All Communities

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The mission of COAACH is to improve the health and well-being of communities by providing education, community empowerment and evidence-based research so that individuals, particularly the most vulnerable, can live life with quality, dignity, and independence.

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