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 2024 Autumn Summit
Strategies for Implementing Comprehensive Dementia Care: Resources for CMS GUIDE Participants and Other Dementia Care Providers
Join us on Tuesday, November 19, 2024, from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM ET (10:00 AM to 1:00 PM PT) for the virtual 2024 Autumn Summit. This year’s summit will focus on evidence-based strategies and resources for implementing comprehensive dementia care.
The information provided will be relevant to CMS GUIDE participants as well as other providers and organizations interested in improving the quality of dementia care.
Register for the Autumn Summit and review our draft agenda below.
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.
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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”.