Welcome to the National Dementia Care Collaborative
The National Dementia Care Collaborative (NDCC) aims to improve access to evidence-based comprehensive dementia care. Learn more about our goal by exploring our About Us page.
Announcing the Dementia Care Improvement Instrument (DCII)
The NDCC developed the Dementia Care Improvement Instrument (DCII) to help health systems, clinicians, and community-based organizations in their efforts to improve dementia care. ​
This survey will provide real time recommendations about which evidence-based comprehensive dementia care programs are most relevant to your organization’s needs and help you think through implementation barriers and facilitators.
Join us in our efforts to implement comprehensive dementia care.
With generous support from The John A. Hartford Foundation, the Education Development Center (EDC) is coordinating with the developers of six evidence-based comprehensive dementia care programs to rapidly respond to increasing demands for dementia services and a new payment model launched by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center.
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The collaborating evidence-based programs include: the Benjamin Rose Institute Care Consultation (BRI-CC), Care Ecosystem, Aging Brain Center (HABC 3.0), Integrated Memory Care (IMC), Maximizing Independence (MIND) at Home and the UCLA Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care (ADC) Program. Visit our Dementia Care Models page to learn more.
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The Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model was announced by CMS in 2023 to test alternative ways for Medicare to pay for comprehensive dementia care that includes support for family caregivers. The NDCC brings together the developers of established comprehensive dementia care programs to define dissemination strategies, establish standards and tools, and conduct training to accelerate the adoption of evidence-based programs under the new GUIDE payment model.
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​The NDCC is supported under a grant from The John A. Hartford Foundation to EDC entitled, “Rapid Dissemination of Evidence-Based Comprehensive Dementia Care Models”.