Navigating the End of Racial Disparities in Healthcare

African-American Women are twice as likely as the national average to have Alzheimer's disease! Why??

Find out on "Everyday Conversations on Race for Everyday People, with my guest Asoniti Foster founder of Puzzled 2020, a company focused on mental wellness and Alzheimer's awareness. Asoniti discusses the urgency of addressing Alzheimer's in the Black community, highlighting the alarming statistic that African-American women are twice as likely to have Alzheimer's than the national average. We go deep into the intersection of race and Alzheimer's, to create awareness and the proactive measures that can be taken within marginalized communities.

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Key Moments:

[00:03:51] Mental health in Black community.

[00:07:07] Alzheimer's risk factors and the problem of awareness.

[00:08:10] Alzheimer's disease and the lack of awareness in general and specifically in the African-American community.

[00:13:51] Alzheimer's in the Black community and racial disparities in treatment and diagnosis

[00:18:18] Exercise benefits for brain health and why it's so important for Black women.

[00:22:38] Gratitude as a brain exercise.

[00:25:59] Scrolling addiction and relationship to Alzheimer's

[00:29:17] Alzheimer's epidemic and Black women.

[00:34:33] Alzheimer's unexpected behaviors that most people don't know

[00:36:41] Puzzled documentary on Alzheimer's.

[00:41:07] Be your own advocate, and bring someone with you

[00:46:51] Emotional Intelligence, books, and brain cells

[00:48:02] Living longer in Blue Zones, and what we all can do to keep our brains and bodies healthier.

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About Asoniti Foster website: www.puzzled2020.com email: info@puzzled2020.com Facebook: @puzzled2020 Instagram: @puzzled2020

Born and raised in the city by the Bay, San Francisco, ASONITI FOSTER is a content creator /writer/producer and licensed caregiver. After graduating from San Francisco State University, majoring in Mass Communications with an emphasis in broadcast media and writing for television, Asoniti relocated to Los Angeles and held several positions in the entertainment industry. Success was indeed the reward, as she quickly moved up the ladder to eventually write a couple of episodes on Will and Jada Pinkett Smiths’ hit sitcom, “All of Us”. She also worked on a number of other sitcoms, including, One on One”, starring Flex Alexander and Kyla Pratt, “Second Time Around” starring Nicole Ari Parker and Boris Kojo, and “Just Jordan” a Nickelodeon show. After the writer’s strike, Asoniti began independently developing and filming various projects.

While honing her skills in creating, developing, and producing, a new passion blossomed in her life, care for Alzheimer’s patients. When both her grandmothers passed from the condition, she educated herself about it and planned to be proactive to an ignored class of patients. What she discovered was surprising and saw an opportunity to share her found information. With very little, to no material about why African American women are twice as likely to have the disease she knew it would be fitting to develop a documentary about it. So, she did, and it is titled, “Puzzled”.

PUZZLED is an Alzheimer’s awareness documentary that will focus on why women are more like to have AD and why African American women are twice as likely to have it than the national average. And this would only be accomplished working alongside her daughter. As a producer on the documentary, SONI FOSTER-JACKSON is a pre-teen, sassy, smart, socializer, currently enjoying school and extracurricular activities: art