The Northern California Chronic Care Network for Dementia

The Northern California Chronic Care Network for Dementia brings together Northern California's major providers of managed care, community‐based care, consumer education, and advocacy in new partnerships to improve the care of persons with dementia enrolled in managed care plans and their famil...

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Published in:	Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS) Vol. 52; no. 1; pp. 150 - 156
Main Authors:	Coon, David W., Williams, Marilyn P., Moore, Richard J., Edgerly, Elizabeth S., Steinbach, Catherine M., Roth, Susan P., Phillips, Cheryl L., Nguyen, Hanh, Dowling, Glenna A., Dunning, Erika A., Feigenbaum, Lawrence Z.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, UK Blackwell Science Inc 01-01-2004 Blackwell Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
Subjects:	Adult and adolescent clinical studies Advocacy services Associations Biological and medical sciences California Care coordinators chronic care network Chronic illnesses Community care Consumer education Degenerative and inherited degenerative diseases of the nervous system. Leukodystrophies. Prion diseases Dementia Dementia - therapy dementia care management Elderly people Health Care Coalitions - organization & administration Humans Managed care Managed Care Programs managed care-Alzheimer's association partnerships Medical sciences Neurology Organic mental disorders. Neuropsychology Organizational Objectives Partnerships Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychopathology. Psychiatry Support networks systems of care USA California United States North America America Northern California United States > US Nervous system diseases Chronic Central nervous system disease Network Degenerative disease Care Cerebral disorder Senile dementia
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Summary:	The Northern California Chronic Care Network for Dementia brings together Northern California's major providers of managed care, community‐based care, consumer education, and advocacy in new partnerships to improve the care of persons with dementia enrolled in managed care plans and their family caregivers. These partnerships are part of a national initiative entitled the Chronic Care Network for Alzheimer's Disease (CCN/AD) sponsored by the National Chronic Care Consortium and the Alzheimer's Association. This initiative selected eight promising provider‐consumer partnerships across the country to implement and evaluate a new model of coordinated care for people with dementia and their families. This paper describes the Northern California network's partnerships and its intervention and challenges. The intervention is grounded in the key components of the CCN/AD model: “identification of patients with possible dementia, diagnostic assessment, care management and family caregiver information and support.” These components, in turn, are translated into protocols and pathways designed to create timely, comprehensive, appropriate, and effective systems of care services that address the unique needs of dementia patients and their caregivers over the course of the disease.
Bibliography:	ArticleID:JGS52026 ark:/67375/WNG-393VJ0VW-8 istex:49BD71E22A1DC5B903690B5327A3587828CF91A1 A grant from the California HealthCare Foundation and support from Mt. Zion Health Fund and the California Pacific Medical Center Foundation supported this work. ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23
ISSN:	0002-8614 1532-5415
DOI:	10.1111/j.1532-5415.2004.52026.x