National Dementia Care Collaborative
Challenge
Although there have been recent advances in dementia treatment, they have been modest and limited to a small number of people living with dementia. Thus, there remains a compelling need for broad dissemination of successful models of dementia care to help the more than 6.9 million persons with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and to support their caregivers.
Through the National Dementia Care Collaborative, an effort that builds on a previous project, EDC builds the capacity of health care providers that are participating in the Guiding an Improvement Dementia Care Experience (GUIDE) and also non-GUIDE programs to improve the quality of life for people with dementia and their families. Our work focuses on helping providers ensure that people living with dementia and their caregivers receive evidence-based dementia care and on paving the path for further expansion and alternative payment reform.
Key Activities
The project is carrying out the following activities:
- Engage with GUIDE participants to achieve success by providing training and technical assistance
- Establish communities where dementia care providers can learn from each other
- Sustain and expand infrastructure for disseminating evidence-based dementia care programs
- Engage key organizations to disseminate evidence-based dementia care models
Impact
This project will:
- Engage dementia care providers so that up to 24,000 persons living with dementia and their caregivers will receive evidence-based dementia care
- Support at a minimum 75 participants in the CMS GUIDE Model to achieve success
- Provide at least four education offerings and one summit annually
- Engage with at least 10 medical groups that provide care for Medicare Advantage plans to support adoption of a comprehensive dementia care model
