| Literature DB >> 28926722 |
Soo Borson1, Joshua Chodosh2, Cyndy Cordell3, Beth Kallmyer4, Malaz Boustani5, Anna Chodos6, Jatin K Dave7, Lisa Gwyther8, Susan Reed9, David B Reuben10, Stephen Stabile11, Monica Willis-Parker12, William Thies13.
Abstract
There is now an unprecedented opportunity to improve the care of the over 5 million people who are living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias and many more with cognitive impairment due to brain injury, systemic diseases, and other causes. The introduction of a new Medicare care planning benefit-long sought openly by advocacy organizations and clinicians and badly needed by patients and families-could greatly improve health care quality, but only if widely and fully implemented. We describe the components of this new benefit and its promise of better clinical care, as well as its potential to create a new platform for clinical and health outcomes research. We highlight external factors-and some that are internal to the benefit structure itself-that challenge the full realization of its value, and we call for broad public and professional engagement to ensure that it will not fail.Entities:
Keywords: Barriers; Care planning dementia; Implementation; Practice tools; Primary care
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Year: 2017 PMID： 28926722 DOI： 10.1016/j.jalz.2017.09.001
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Alzheimers Dement ISSN： 1552-5260 Impact factor: 21.566