Alzheimer’s Impact Movement (AIM) Releases Budgetary Analysis on Dementia Care Management Model
The Alzheimer's Impact Movement (AIM) of the Alzheimer's Association has released a new budgetary analysis on the Dementia Care Management (DCM) model.
The analysis found that better care through dementia care management would save the federal government nearly $21 billion over 10 years — while also improving the quality of life for individuals living with dementia and their families. AIM released a blog that gives a summary of the analysis.
The key elements of the propose dementia care management model are:
- Coordinated Care Management: providing patient-centered care management through an interdisciplinary care team of providers that would work collaboratively with a patient’s health care providers and non-medical community-based support services.
- Patient Access: increasing access to care, community-based services, and resources.
- Caregiver Inclusion: ensuring that caregivers, who are an integral part of the care of a person with dementia, participate in the process and are appropriately supported.
- Capitated Payment: paying providers a monthly per-patient fee based on case complexity and an individual’s needs and resources — to make the model more attractive for providers to participate.
- Outcomes-Based Approach: assessing provider performance with meaningful quality indicators, including offering a payment bonus to those providers who meet the indicators.
- Widespread Applicability: guaranteeing that the model can be easily adopted by a variety of practice types and is available to individuals from diverse communities.
On Monday, October 24 in Washington D.C., The John A. Hartford Foundation in partnership with the Education Development Center is convening experts in dementia care and key federal agencies to explore how to provide better care to those living with dementia. At the convening, AIM will be presenting the new budgetary analysis and stressing the potential savings that could be achieved with dementia care management.
Read the full blog on the budgetary analysis.
Read the DCM budgetary analysis.
Learn more about AIM.
Learn more about JAHF's support of the Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Program.
