Practice Support Consultation
Dementia Care Aware understands that practice change is difficult to do without support. That is why Dementia Care Aware offers options for practice support so that organizations can get hands-on guidance and connections to resources to make meaningful improvements in their daily practice.
Scroll below to see the different options for practice support or reach out to us for more guidance.
Start an Early Detection Pathway in Primary Care
Dementia Care Aware Implementation Support
Dementia Care Aware offers hands-on support and resources to help primary care implement an early detection and dementia care pathway. A partnership with us ensures that providers and staff know who and how to screen, next steps, and how to use EHR templates and reports. Partners receive personalized curriculum, technical assistance, network connections, and opportunities for data analytics and publishing.
What Does Partnering with DCA Look Like?
Free Training with FREE CE/CME
Support Aligning With Best Practices
EHR Consultation
Ongoing Technical Assistance
Connection to Resources & Programs
Impact Monitoring & Measurement
Create a Co-Management Model of Care
UCLA Health Alzheimer's and Dementia Care (ADC) Program
Based on the award-winning UCLA Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Program, this co-management model of care is designed to help patients and their families meet the complex medical, behavioral, and social needs of Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia.
Benefits of adopting the ADC program:
Reduction in long-term nursing home placement
Reduction in behavioral symptomsÂ
Improvement in caregiver confidence in handling dementia complications
Reduction in caregiver stress
Dementia quality indicators are met
Physician post-ADC adoption survey results:
felt they received valuable social recommendations
felt they received valuable behavioral recommendations
felt their relationships with patients were enhanced
felt they saved time
of providers would recommend the ADC to other patients
UCLA Health Dementia Care Aware Offerings
As part of the Dementia Care Aware initiative, UCLA Health is providing several key offerings. UCLA’s role is to improve the care and outcomes of persons living with dementia (PLWD) and their caregiver after diagnosis. UCLA plans to do this by providing training and support to healthcare providers and assistance with practice-level changes to have the needs of PLWD addressed systematically through comprehensive dementia care programs.
Click below to contact Program Manager Jagrup Kaur for more information about UCLA Health’s ADC Program and Dementia Care Aware key offerings.
Improve Care with Quality Improvement Coaching
The Alzheimer’s Association
From assessment and diagnosis to care planning and follow-up, the Alzheimer’s Association will work with your health system to transform your dementia care practice.
To learn more about the Alzheimer’s Association Health Systems support services, download their consulting flyer or contact them using the information below.
Transformative Consulting Services:
- Analyze data to uncover barriers to quality dementia care
- Provide tools and resources to implement evidence-based strategies
- Perform a gap analysis to identify key areas for process and quality improvement
- Use Triple Aim to optimize health systems performance
- Develop customized solutions to help improve dementia care management
Quality Improvement Services:
The Alzheimer’s Association staff can serve as consultants and/or facilitators on formal QI projects designed to address the unique challenges of your health system, primary care practice or organization. Through strategies such as staff training and guidance on the implementation of evidence-based tools and resources, the Alzheimer’s Association can help you:
- Reduce inefficiencies in process and workflow
- Implement and improve practice standards for person-centered dementia care
- Enhance quality of care and potentially reduce costs
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