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Leveraging the Annual Wellness Visit to Detect Dementia in Your Patient Population
By John Mach, MD.
Many value-based practices emphasize the Medicare Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) to their patients. The AWV is a great opportunity to improve screening for dementia but it needs to include a specific, standardized screen. This article discusses why screening is so important and how leveraging technology can improve screening during the AWV.
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The Value of the Caregiver – Redefining Metrics in Dementia Care
Traditional metrics in dementia care have focused primarily on patient outcomes and clinical efficiencies. But many dementia patients are unable to self-manage their care, rendering traditional outcome measurements inaccurate. As the role of the unpaid/informal family caregiver, typically a spouse or adult child, becomes increasingly recognized as essential, it’s time to redefine our measurement systems. This article explores the importance of developing caregiver-centric metrics that accurately reflect the full spectrum of care.
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CMS is Prioritizing Dementia Care—Are ACOs Ready?
ACOs and at-risk providers that embrace GUIDE today will emerge as leaders tomorrow, as CMS accelerates its focus on dementia care. Beyond improving patient outcomes, the right GUIDE partner ensures that ACOs can effectively manage attribution, control medical expenses, and reduce preventable hospitalizations—protecting both their financial performance and their ability to deliver high-quality care.
ACOs should be thinking strategically about how they leverage the benefits of GUIDE on behalf of their dementia patients. While the program promises shared savings through fewer hospitalizations and ED visits, there are risks that a well-prepared partner can help you avoid.
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Doing Nothing is Not Free: ACOs and GUIDE
If you lead an accountable care organization (ACO), you’ve likely heard of CMS’s GUIDE (Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience) model. It’s an eight-year initiative designed to improve dementia care by integrating family caregivers into the care team. It is also a battle cry for better care. Ignore it at your own peril.
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Society of Actuaries: A GUIDE to CMS's New Dementia Model
Ceresti CEO Dirk Soenksen offers his insights into how the GUIDE model will affect dementia care in the U.S. for the Society of Actuaries publication, Long Term Care News.
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Ceresti and Zinnia TV Announce Exciting Partnership for Dementia Care
Ceresti Health and research-backed dementia care television service Zinnia TV announced they will team up to boost support for caregivers through the combination of their evidence-based interventions in 2025. Beginning in January, Ceresti’s tablets will include Zinnia’s calming, gently-paced, plot-free videos that are designed for people who are living with dementia.
“Zinnia and Ceresti share a common mission: to empower caregivers and improve the quality of life for people living with dementia,” said Bill Uniowski, CEO of Zinnia. “By combining Zinnia’s research-backed video content with Ceresti’s proven, personalized caregiver enablement program, we’re delivering innovative tools that bring comfort, connection and better outcomes to families, healthcare systems and physicians alike.”
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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
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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.
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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.