UCLA has been chosen by the Facilities for Medicare & Medicaid Companies (CMS) to take part in a brand new Medicare different cost mannequin designed to assist folks residing with dementia and their caregivers.
UCLA is one in every of virtually 400 contributors constructing Dementia Care Packages (DCPs) throughout the nation working beneath CMS’ Guiding an Improved Dementia Expertise (GUIDE)Mannequin to extend care coordination and enhance entry to companies and helps, together with respite care, for folks residing with dementia and their caregivers.
We’re delighted to be a GUIDE Mannequin website. This can be a landmark in Medicare’s efforts to offer complete look after older individuals residing with dementia and their caregivers. They’ve struggled to get wanted care as a result of many useful companies haven’t been coated, their care has been fragmented, and so they have lacked some extent particular person to assist them navigate and coordinate care.
Dr. David Reuben, program director for UCLA’s GUIDE program and Archstone Professor of Drugs on the David Geffen Faculty of Drugs at UCLA
“The GUIDE mannequin takes main steps in every of those areas and Medicare needs to be congratulated for bringing this to life,” added Reuben, chief of the UCLA Division of Geriatrics.
Launched on July 1, 2024, the GUIDE Mannequin will check a brand new cost strategy for key supportive companies furnished to folks residing with dementia, together with: complete, person-centered assessments and care plans; care coordination; 24/7 entry to an interdisciplinary care group member or assist line; and sure respite companies to assist caregivers. Folks with dementia and their caregivers can have the help and assist of a Care Navigator to assist them entry medical and non-clinical companies similar to meals and transportation by way of community-based organizations.
“CMS is happy to companion with UCLA beneath the GUIDE Mannequin,” mentioned CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure. “GUIDE is a brand new strategy to how Medicare can pay for the care of individuals residing with dementia. The GUIDE contributors are envisioning new methods to assist not solely folks residing with dementia, but in addition to cut back pressure on the individuals who look after them, in order that extra People can stay of their houses and communities, fairly than in establishments.”
UCLA’s participation within the GUIDE Mannequin will assist folks residing with dementia and their caregivers have entry to schooling and assist, similar to coaching applications on finest practices for caring for a liked one residing with dementia. The GUIDE Mannequin additionally gives respite companies for sure folks, enabling caregivers to take momentary breaks from their caregiving obligations. Respite is being examined beneath the GUIDE Mannequin to evaluate its impact on serving to caregivers proceed to care for his or her family members at house, stopping or delaying the necessity for facility care.
GUIDE Individuals characterize a variety of well being care suppliers, together with giant tutorial medical facilities, small group practices, community-based organizations, well being methods, hospice companies, and different practices.
This mannequin delivers on a promise within the Biden Administration’s Govt Order on Growing Entry to Excessive-High quality Care and Supporting Caregivers and aligns with the Nationwide Plan to Handle Alzheimer’s Illness.