JAGS Publishes Papers from the UCLA Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Program

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Three publications about UCLA Alzheimer's and Dementia Care program were recently published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) including a special article, "Recommendations to Improve Payment Policies for Comprehensive Dementia Care."

Researchers at the UCLA Alzheimer's and Dementia Care (ADC) program held several round tables with funding from The John A. Hartford Foundation. From those round tables, three papers were published in JAGS:

  • Special article, "Recommendations to Improve Payment Policies for Comprehensive Dementia Care" - recommendations from more than 50 national experts from diverse perspectives on promising strategies for payment reform including ways to accelerate their adoption.
  • Clinical investigation, "The Effects of Dementia Care Co‐Management on Acute Care, Hospice, and Long‐Term Care Utilization" - researchers examined acute care utilization, long‐term care admissions, and hospice use of program enrollees as compared with persons with dementia not in the program using FFS and managed Medicare claims data to further understand the impact of dementia co‐management on costs.
  • Editorial, "How Do We Make Comprehensive Dementia Care a Benefit?" - editorial commentary on the two papers.

To go to the special article abstract, "Recommendations to Improve Payment Policies for Comprehensive Dementia Care" click here.
To go to the clinical investigation abstract, "The Effects of Dementia Care Co‐Management on Acute Care, Hospice, and Long‐Term Care Utilization", click here.
To read the editorial, "How Do We Make Comprehensive Dementia Care a Benefit?", click here.
To learn more about the ADC program, click here.
To learn more about JAHF's support of the UCLA ADC program, click here.