CMS Forges Partnerships 2 Improve Dementia Care

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid is partnering on the National level to improve dementia care.  This is moving delivery toward person centered care. Person centered delivery requires the provider to understand the assistance the individual values. The individual's values are then shared with care givers as the goals that should be the focus of daily interactions. 

The management of the undesired symptoms of dementia requires several providers from multiple participating disciplines best capable of implementing the non-pharmacological interventions.  Providing individuals with more of what they value while employing practices to diminish the intensity of the undesired behaviors is expected to reduce the administration of anti-psychotic medications.

The hope is that by using research to bolster care delivery with pragmatic evidence based interventions that truly work the number of providers willing to help with a diagnosis of dementia will increase.  The liability (risk)  and the increased labor (cost) keeps providers being resistant to accepting a person manifesting undesired symptoms of dementia. Adding more providers would improve access to needed care delivery.  Sharing pragmatic evidence based interventions is instrumental in preventing the delivery of sub-standard care.

This is a top down approach to organizing systems to better meet the need created with the increasing incidence of dementia disease.  Track Memory 2 Zero is a 10 level progressive schedule used by care coordinators to understand increments of memory loss related to a diagnosis of Alzheimer's Dementia disease.

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