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Mechanisms for Organizational Behavior Change to Address the Needs of People Living with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Proceedings of a Workshop (2022) / Chapter Skim
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... rely on family members, their community, and the health care system for progressively increasing support over the course of their disease. These people receive care through a frequently siloed health care system across hospitals, nursing homes, ambulatory care settings, and long-term care settings, as well as community- and home-based care.
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... NIA sponsored a workshop hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to explore mechanisms to improve the quality of care for people living with ADRD and the potential of innovative payment models to incentivize health care systems to make the necessary systemic changes.2 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine project staff from the Board on Health Care Services (HCS) and the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences (BBCSS)
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... BOX 1 Key Considerations Highlighted by Individual Workshop Participants for Improved Quality of Care and Support for People Living With Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias and Their Caregivers Financial mechanisms • Current payment models do not reflect the roles that frontline Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) caregiv ers and community-based partners play in providing effective, person-centered care for people living with ADRD (Ferrell, Reuben, Robison, Vladeck)
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... . • International examples can provide insights into what "good" ADRD care looks like, such as multidisciplinary and collaborative approaches that involve both paid and unpaid caregivers (Jang, Robison)
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... . • Team-based models of care for people with ADRD could benefit from including family caregivers, community-based caregivers, health care professionals, long-term care providers, and other professions (Gwyther, Hollmann, Lamont, Schneider)
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... This workshop is relevant to several of NACA's 2019 recommendations, including supporting research on individual and organizational change and research on improving care for patients with ADRD and their caregivers. Kim noted that while many health care, public health, and social service systems are redesigning their programs and processes to address the current siloed nature of care and service delivery, there remains a gap in understanding how to reliably implement organizational change initiatives to better serve people living with ADRD.
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