This Dementia Care Aware webinar, Dementia and D-SNPs in 2026: How California Is Setting the Standard—and What Care Teams Need to Know, is the thirty-fourth in the series discussing how California’s D-SNP dementia requirements are reshaping care delivery and what organizations should prepare for next. 

Presenters:   

• Genevieve Caruncho-Simpson, MPA, Senior Advisor at the Family Caregiver Alliance

• Linda M Keenan, PhD, MPA, BSN, RN-BC, NMCC at the Family Caregiver Alliance

• Moderator: Anna Chodos, MD, MPH, Executive Director of Dementia Care Aware 

This Dementia Care Aware webinar titled “Tried and True” and the New – Insights into Behavior Management in Dementia” is the thirty-third in the series discussing different methods and tools to identify and quantify BPSD symptoms. 

Presenters:   

• Sandeep Pagali, MD, MPH 

• Moderator: Anna Chodos, MD, MPH, Executive Director of Dementia Care Aware 

This Dementia Care Aware webinar titled “Living With a Diagnosis: A Discussion With Doctors Living With Dementia” is the thirty-first in the series who discussed their experience navigating receiving a dementia diagnosis, from the perspective of a clinician. 

Presenters:   

• Retired clinicians living with dementia at the National Council of Dementia Minds 
• Moderator: Anna Chodos, MD, MPH, Executive Director of Dementia Care Aware