a. Support groups for families, care partners, and other caregivers of Eastern European immigrants diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia-causing illnesses. These groups will offer a unique cultural and linguistic way to understand and will equip participants with tools to cope with Alzheimer’s disease and its impact on one’s overall functioning. The groups will provide with information, education, and support. The groups will be facilitated by native speaking medical/mental health professionals, and other speakers will be invited when needed. The groups will meet monthly.

b. Support groups for parents of children adopted from Eastern Europe. These groups will provide a forum for adoptive parents to discuss the unique challenges they are facing, to provide mutual support and sharing of information, and to have medical/mental health professionals for support, guidance, consultations, and referrals. The groups will meet monthly.

c. Support groups for Eastern European women married to American men. These groups will provide safe and linguistically/culturally appropriate setting for women married through the Internet dating services to discuss their concerns, support each other through the challenges of acculturation, to receive brief crisis counseling and referrals to medical, legal, and/or social services. The groups will meet monthly.

Program Directors: Dr. Yelena Garbouzova and Dr.Gregory Mazo.