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Guiding the Care Journey: Building Dementia Workforce and System Capacity through Care Navigation
Guiding the Care Journey: Building Dementia Workforce and System Capacity through Care Navigation
In our signature program, the Alliance to Improve Dementia Care, we bring together a multi-sector coalition of leaders to uncover the latest breakthroughs in brain health and we work to increase timely detection, improve access to treatment, coordinated care, and address health equity for people at risk for or living with dementia and their caregivers. Through expert workgroups, convenings, collaborative initiatives, and thought leadership, the Alliance amplifies and promotes the adoption of proven polices, solutions, and promising innovations in dementia care.
Convene diverse stakeholders: Partner with leaders from health systems, industry, research, advocacy, community-based organizations, philanthropy, government, and people living with dementia and caregivers.
Identify gaps in care: Mobilize cross-sector leaders to create solutions and amplify innovations to address gaps in information resources, care delivery, and support services.
Collaborate with policymakers: Work with federal and state advisory boards, agency leaders, and elected officials to overcome long-standing care and financing barriers and advance scalable solutions.
- Propose policy and systems solutions: Develop and promote policies and practices that build a dementia-capable workforce, accelerate adoption of care innovations into clinical pathways, and advance comprehensive dementia-care models that align care preferences and incentives.
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Highlights
Kissick Family Foundation, Milken Institute Announce $3 Million in Funding for Frontotemporal Dementia Research
September 25, 2024 (Washington, DC)—The Kissick Family Foundation Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) Grant Program, in partnership with the Milken Institute Science Philanthropy Accelerator for Research and Collaboration (SPARC), today announced...Read ArticleImage
Paul Guequierre
Director, Strategic CommunicationsPaul Guequierre is the director of strategic communications. In this role, he works to increase the profile of Milken Institute in the media, raise the visibility of issues important to the organization and its stakeholders, and expand the Institute's digital presence.
Nutrition for Health Span and Longevity
When COVID-19 began spreading in 2020, most countries reacted by involving heads of state and government agencies, while dedicating billions of dollars and an unprecedented level of personnel and resources to limit the size and consequences...Read Essay
Guiding the Care Journey: Building Dementia Workforce and System Capacity through Care Navigation
This report covers the challenges that the US health-care system is facing as it prepares to meet the growing demand for care among individuals living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD). It suggests that implementing care...Read Report11
Shifting the Paradigm of ‘Winner Drug Takes All’ for Neurodegenerative Diseases
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The Transformative Promise of Geroscience
During the first 100,000 years of human evolution, life expectancy fluctuated between 20 to 30 years. But life expectancy in the industrial world has nearly tripled in the last century—a remarkable achievement mainly attributable to such...Read Essay
Projected Prevalence and Cost of Dementia: 2022 Update
The 2022 update on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) highlights that: The treatment prevalence and related costs have significantly increased in the past 10 years → + 31 percent since 2012 to $2.43 million. The latest...Read Report
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Howard Fillit, MD - Stories from the Field
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Roadmap for Investment in Dementia Care
On average, people with Alzheimer’s disease and frontotemporal dementia live six to ten years after diagnosis. People with vascular dementia and Lewy body dementia live on average five to six years after diagnosis. A great deal can and...Read Report
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Featured Event Sessions
Federal Brain Boost: Advancements and Next Steps in Dementia Care2023 Future of Health Summit Session
Advancing Whole-Person Health: Breaking Down Silos in Chronic Disease Prevention2023 Future of Health Summit Session
Lifestyle Medicine for the Brain: A Conversation with Deepak Chopra and Seth Rogen2023 Global Conference Session
Dementia: Addressing the Stigma of America's Most Feared Diagnosis2021 Future of Health Summit Session- Reducing Health and Economic Disparities in Dementia Care2020 Future of Health Summit Session
Featured Media
McKnight’s Senior Living references our November 2022 report, 'Projected Prevalence and Cost of Dementia: 2022 Update', which estimates that Alzheimer’s disease expenditures will triple to $45 billion by 2040.
The Alliance to Improve Dementia Care's Diane Ty joins a panel on improving care for people living with dementia and strengthening support for their caregivers.
Rajiv Ahuja, JD and Mac McDermott detail four steps to increase access to adult day services for families affected by dementia.
This 'Public Policy & Aging Report' article, by Nora Super and Diane Ty, focuses on the creation and evolution of the Alliance to Improve Dementia Care.
Writing for the American Society on Aging, Milken Institute's Diane Ty explains why we must improve cognitive screening for dementia.
Milken Institute Health's Future of Aging leads cover brain health and dementia prevention in this article published in STAT.
Classifying Asian Americans as a monolithic population obscures diversity and has significant implications for the health and wellness of communities, especially when it comes to dementia. Diane Ty, Raj Ahuja, and Jennie Chin Hansen in Generations.
Leaders
Alliance to Improve Dementia Care Steering Committee
Join the Alliance
The Alliance to Improve Dementia Care is supported by steering committee members AARP, Alzheimer’s Association, Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation, Bank of America, Biogen, BrightFocus Foundation, Cognivue, Craniometrix, Edward Jones, Eisai, Eli Lilly and Company, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Genentech, The John A. Hartford Foundation, Lundbeck, The SCAN Foundation, Washington University in St. Louis, and the Gary and Mary West Foundation with matching funds from the Milken Institute.