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Testimonials
A Once-Lone Advocate Finds Needed Support Through Ceresti
Cracker Boynton has been advocating for her husband, Jeremy, since 2013, when the couple first began to notice Jeremy’s cognitive decline. It took five years before she could convince neurologists to perform a PET scan – which confirmed what they already knew: Jeremy has Alzheimer’s disease.
Cracker has been a tireless advocate for her husband through bouts of depression, decline and anxiety. Not until she discovered Ceresti Health did Cracker feel as though she had a real partner in care.
Breezing through months worth of caregiver education in just weeks, Cracker is an avid proponent for what Ceresti can do to improve the knowledge, skills and confidence of people like her who are caring for loved ones with dementia.
Testimonials
Retired Truckdriver Finds Support on Her Dementia Caregiver Journey
Gladys and Dean took off for a four-week, 6,000-mile trip from Idaho to deliver an invaluable family Bible to Dean’s brother, John, in Buffalo. The retired truck drivers are no strangers to the road, but trips like these have gotten more challenging since Dean’s diagnosis of Alzheimer’s in 2019. Gladys said her community and the education and support she continuously receives from her team at Ceresti Health has been helping the couple through the unexpected twists and turns that come with dementia care.
Press Release
Ceresti Partners with ASAAR Medical to Drive Scalable Change in Dementia Care
Ceresti Health (Ceresti), a CMS GUIDE participant and leader in tech-enabled dementia care, has partnered with Florida-based REACH ACO ASAAR Medical (ASAAR) to transform the delivery of dementia care and drive scalable impact across accountable care organization (ACO) performance by activating family caregivers as essential members of the care team.
“ASAAR is committed to delivering smarter care models that empower physicians and families alike,” said Anjan Patel, CEO of ASAAR Medical. “Ceresti’s solution and its alignment with the GUIDE model perfectly support our vision - a dementia care approach that is proactive, tech-enabled and tailored to how care actually happens: at home, with caregivers.”
Article
How to Lower the Cost of Your Top Cost Drivers
Dementia represents a large, unmanaged, high-cost subpopulation in Medicare risk contracts—and a unique opportunity for value-based organizations to improve outcomes and reduce costs. For health plans and providers in value-based care arrangements, outsourcing dementia care management is a rare win-win: it drives better care, lowers total cost of care, and fills a major gap in current CCM programs.
Press Release
Ceresti Partners with Neura Health to Deliver Timely Dementia Assessments Under CMS GUIDE Model
Dementia care solutions leader Ceresti Health today announced a strategic partnership with Neura Health, a nationwide virtual neurology services provider. This collaboration will expand the service areas for Ceresti’s remotely delivered dementia care program under the CMS Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model and will provide faster, more efficient services to people with dementia and their family caregivers.
Article
The Indispensable Partnership: Physicians and Unpaid Family Caregivers in Dementia Care
In its unflinching report “America’s Unseen Workforce: The State of Family Caregiving,” Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health sheds a stark light on the state of caregiving for people with dementia. Physicians are in a unique position to chart a new course for their patients -- and the loved ones who care for them.
Ceresti can help. To help your dementia patients and their family caregivers access the benefits of the GUIDE model, refer them to Ceresti Health: guide.ceresti.com
Webinar
HLTH: Reducing Hospitalizations in Dementia Patients
In this HLTH webinar, you will:
- Recognize the importance of including the family caregiver in the care team
- Learn how caregiver enablement differs from traditional caregiver support
- Discover why including caregiver enablement in your population health strategy can markedly reduce avoidable hospitalizations and overall costs in a largely unengaged population
- Understand how the addition of caregiver enablement to the new CMS GUIDE model achieves meaningful cost savings for ACOs and risk-bearing entities
Video
What’s Hidden in Your Claims Data Could Save You Thousands
The Florida Association of ACOs (FLAACOs) welcomed Ceresti Health to discuss how caregiver activation can reduce hospitalizations by more than 50% and lower medical costs by over 30%. Plus, Ceresti explains how the new CMS GUIDE model offers significant shared savings at no risk to ACOs— with no out-of-pocket fees.
Webinar
NAACOS: Reducing Hospitalizations in Dementia Patients
Accountable Care Organizations lack the capabilities to manage the healthcare cost of patients with dementia, a cohort that incurs 27% of all Medicare hospitalizations. These patients are not able to self-manage their health and are very rarely engaged effectively in traditional care management programs.
The National Association of Accountable Care Organizations discuss the root causes of avoidable hospitalizations and summarize learnings from clinical studies of Ceresti's caregiver enablement program that reduced patient hospitalizations and improved caregiver well-being.