The Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Program
ADC PROGRAM
Providing comprehensive, coordinated, dementia care for Persons Living with Dementia and their loved ones
ADC Related Programs
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The Alzheimer’s Association has partnered with the UCLA ADC Program to present an Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care ECHO series. Participants will learn best-practice guidance for dementia detection, diagnosis, and management from experts in the field.
Recruitment is open for the Spring series, scheduled to begin April 2025.
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The UCLA ADC Program is hosting a monthly one-hour session to discuss the ADC Program model, its operations, lessons learned, sustaining the model, and CMS' GUIDE model implementation. Successful health systems that have adopted the ADC Program will also be showcased.
If you’re interested in learning more, please join us every second Monday of the month at 10 a.m. PST.
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We are pleased to announce that the UCLA Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care (ADC) Program will be hosting Better Caregiving for All, a monthly virtual series accessible via Zoom and will be delivered live and recorded for on-demand viewing. The material covered each month will address the needs of populations that have not been the focus of traditional caregiver training/education in the past. Each session will include a local content expert and caregivers who will share their knowledge and experience in that population of dementia caregiving.
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The National Dementia Care Collaborative (NDCC) hosted a free, virtual event Thursday, February 13th.
In this webinar, two established-track Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) participants shared lessons learned in optimizing GUIDE operations within and around the Epic EHR. These lessons should be helpful to both established- and new-track GUIDE participants.
Presenters:
Kemi Reeves, DNP, MBA,GNP-BC, Associate Director, and Andrea Centeno, MS, Program Manager of the UCLA Alzheimer's and Dementia Care (ADC) Program. Kemi and Andrea have been integral in training and onboarding staff, supporting administrative workflows, and implementing the CMS GUIDE Model at UCLA. The UCLA ADC Program was established in 2012 and provides comprehensive, coordinated dementia care for persons with dementia and their loved ones.
Amy Imes, GNP-BC is a gerontological Nurse Practitioner and the program lead for GUIDE at Emory’s Integrated Memory Care (IMC). IMC is a long-established model providing primary care to persons living with dementia and a proud contributor to the National Dementia Care Collaborative.
What is the Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Program?
The ADC Program, based on the award-winning UCLA Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Program, is designed to help persons living with dementia (PLWD) and their loved ones meet the complex medical, behavioral, and social needs of Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia. Dementia Care Specialists (DCSs) who are Advanced Practice Providers (nurse practitioners or physician assistants) are at the heart of the program and work with the patient’s primary care doctor and/or specialists to create and implement a personalized care plan with extensive PLWD and caregiver support.
What are the core components of the ADC Program?
The Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Program partners with community-based organizations to provide person-centered care for patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. The program follows a co-management model that works closely with the primary care and/or referring physician to ensure that care is comprehensive and coordinated for the person with dementia and their family/caregivers.
A 90-minute in-person visit with a Dementia Care Specialist
A personalized care plan developed with the referring physician
Follow-up phone calls or in-person visits to make sure the plan is implemented or modified as needed
24/7, 365-day-a-year access to caregivers for assistance and advice in order to avoid Emergency Department visits and hospitalizations
Ongoing patient monitoring with at least one annual in-person visit to ensure that ongoing and emerging needs are met.
Click on the links below to learn more about the program and how to become an adopting site.
Dissemination of The ADC Program is an opportunity under a UCLA grant with the support of The John A. Hartford Foundation.