Brain Health and Dementia Report

From July to October the program was carried out extensively. A total of 22 sets of seminar series were completed. Some days we had 2 to 3 seminars going on from morning to evening; other days we had seminars taken place concurrently. Data have been compiled and summarized in the following table:

Seminar Series on YouTube:

Brain Health and Dementia 1
Brain Health and Dementia _How to keep our brain healthy

Seminar Records:

The demographic breakdown for all participants is in the following bar chart. We did not set up a separate registration for Caucasians since they did not have their own seminar class. We opened the Chinese classes for them since Dr. Lee delivered the seminar in English. So their data were mixed in the Chinese group. There were 23 Caucasians among the 178 Chinese. This would not affect the evaluation since there is no identifiable information in our evaluation system.

Program Evaluation

The program evaluation was initially set up to include both CCC and AC-SE MI questions, but it was deemed unacceptable as certain items had to be separated in order to be incorporated into the bigger database collected by the CCC team at MDHHS from their previous programs.  Therefore, the first 4 sets of seminars had the initial combined evaluation. It included the seminar overall evaluation, value and easiness of the seminar content, and self-health assessment etc. Afterwards, participants were asked to go into 2 separate evaluation systems: one for CCC and one for AC-SE MI. The former went right into MDHHS Survey Monkey files. AC-SE MI does not have access to that information and thus is not part of this data analysis. The latter evaluation from AC-SE MI was modified to avoid asking participants to answer the same questions twice. Therefore, AC-SE MI decided to just collect some health data that could be used for future programs. Here is the total numbers of evaluation collected in different segments. The following table shows how it was divided and the participating rate for each segment.

From the above table, CCC should have received about 71% (209 out of 294) data sets from this program.

Seminar Evaluation:  Total sample size: 253 (including all seminars from #1 to #22)

Seminar Content and Value Evaluation: sample size only included seminars #1 to #4

Evaluation Comments:

Senior Health Data Survey

During the pandemic lock-down, Zoom seminar was the perfect venue for public health education. With a more focused mind in a casual setting, participants absorbed more information than usual. We have been requested to continue such seminars that are helpful to seniors. This can be considered in 2021 programs when the partial lock-down may very much be still with us.

Janilla Lee, Asian Center – SE MI
November, 2020