UCLA has been chosen by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to take part in a new Medicare alternative payment model designed to help folks dwelling with dementia and their caregivers.
UCLA is certainly one of nearly 400 contributors constructing Dementia Care Programs (DCPs) throughout the nation working under CMS’ Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE)Model to improve care coordination and enhance entry to companies and helps, together with respite care, for folks dwelling with dementia and their caregivers.
We are delighted to be a GUIDE Model web site. This is a landmark in Medicare’s efforts to present complete care for older individuals dwelling with dementia and their caregivers. They have struggled to get wanted care as a result of many useful companies haven’t been lined, their care has been fragmented, and so they have lacked some extent particular person to assist them navigate and coordinate care.
Dr. David Reuben, program director for UCLA’s GUIDE program and Archstone Professor of Medicine on the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
“The GUIDE model takes main steps in every of those areas and Medicare must be congratulated for bringing this to life,” added Reuben, chief of the UCLA Division of Geriatrics.
Launched on July 1, 2024, the GUIDE Model will take a look at a new payment strategy for key supportive companies furnished to folks dwelling with dementia, together with: complete, person-centered assessments and care plans; care coordination; 24/7 entry to an interdisciplinary care group member or assist line; and sure respite companies to help caregivers. People with dementia and their caregivers could have the help and help of a Care Navigator to assist them entry scientific and non-clinical companies akin to meals and transportation by way of community-based organizations.
“CMS is worked up to companion with UCLA under the GUIDE Model,” stated CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. “GUIDE is a new strategy to how Medicare can pay for the care of individuals dwelling with dementia. The GUIDE contributors are envisioning new methods to help not solely folks dwelling with dementia, but in addition to scale back pressure on the individuals who care for them, in order that extra Americans can stay of their houses and communities, slightly than in establishments.”
UCLA’s participation within the GUIDE Model will assist folks dwelling with dementia and their caregivers have entry to schooling and help, akin to coaching applications on finest practices for caring for a cherished one dwelling with dementia. The GUIDE Model additionally offers respite companies for sure folks, enabling caregivers to take short-term breaks from their caregiving tasks. Respite is being examined under the GUIDE Model to assess its impact on serving to caregivers proceed to care for his or her family members at residence, stopping or delaying the necessity for facility care.
GUIDE Participants symbolize a variety of well being care suppliers, together with massive educational medical facilities, small group practices, community-based organizations, well being techniques, hospice companies, and different practices.
This model delivers on a promise within the Biden Administration’s Executive Order on Increasing Access to High-Quality Care and Supporting Caregivers and aligns with the National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease.