Dementia care navigation: Building toward a common definition, key principles, and outcomes

As the complexity of medical treatments and patient care systems have increased, the concept of patient navigation is growing in both popularity and breadth of application. Patient navigators are trained personnel whose role is not to provide clinical care, but to partner with patients to help them identify their needs and goals and then overcome modifiable patient‐, provider‐, and systems‐level barriers. Due to its high incidence, duration, and medical–social complexity, dementia is an ideal candidate for a patient‐centric health care delivery model such as care navigation.

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