ASA Generations Paper: Dementia-Friendly Initiatives for Individuals Living with Dementia, Care Partners, and Communities
The American Society on Aging (ASA) has released a new paper, "Dementia-Friendly Initiatives for Individuals Living with Dementia, Care Partners, and Communities."
Dementia and related disorders affects up to 6.5 million adults in the United States, of which an overwhelming proportion are older adults over the age of 65. The Dementia-Friendly Movement and the Age-Friendly Health Systems Initiative are two initiatives working to improve clinical outcomes and quality of life for older adults. Authors Alice Bonner, Amy Walsh, Jody Shue, Grace Morton and Terry Fulmer argue that collaboration between age-friendly health systems and dementia care initiatives can ensure that people living with dementia and their care partners have their needs met at every step of the care continuum.
Caring for care partners, training health professionals in dementia care, incorporating multilingual and multicultural needs into dementia care, and advancing policy at the state and federal level are some strategies to pave the way towards an age-friendly and dementia-friendly ecosystem.
The ASA Generations Spring 2023 issue articles are on Dementia and Living Well.
Read the article.
Go to Generations Spring 2023 issue on Dementia and Living Well.
Learn about the Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Program (ADC Program), an integrated care model for age-friendly and dementia care.
Learn more about JAHF's co-support of the ADC Program.
