• The Vietnamese Insights into Aging Program (VIP)

    The Vietnamese Insights into Aging Program (VIP)

Purpose:

The Vietnamese Insights into Aging Program (VIP) aims to understand factors that impact thinking and memory in the Vietnamese American community.

Study Goals:

  • To enroll 285 people at UC Davis and 285 people at UC San Francisco with a total of about 570 people in Northern California

Disparities in Health and Research in Vietnamese American Community

  • Although Vietnamese Americans are the 4th largest Asian American subgroup, the community’s risk of dementia is unknown.

  • Certain health conditions put Vietnamese Americans at higher risk for ADRD compared to Non-Hispanic Whites. These include experiences of early life adversity, war trauma and immigration stress, hypertension, stress, diabetes, and depression.

  • The Vietnamese Insights into Aging Program (VIP) aims to better understand these factors and how they impact thinking and memory in the Vietnamese American community.

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