Early Detection. Better Care.

Better care for people living with dementia starts with earlier detection and care. Incorporate dementia screening into practice by exploring our site for trainings, educational materials, and ways to get help from practice transformation experts. Sign up for our core training below and get started today.

A Brighter Future for Dementia Care, Early Detection Matters!

Watch our video on the power of primary care as a catalyst for transformative change in the fight against dementia. Together, let's rewrite the narrative and make early detection the norm. Listen to dementia experts, advocates, and caregivers explain why this is the future of care. Let's make a difference!

Dementia Care Aware provides a variety of education and implementation support resources for dementia screening and care planning for busy practices.

How Can Dementia Care Aware Improve Your Practice?

Dementia Care Aware provides a variety of education and implementation support resources for dementia screening and care planning in the context of a busy primary care practice. We offer online courses, webinars, podcasts, interactive case conferences and a warmline consultation service. Meet our team and browse the variety of opportunities available by exploring our home page below!

Program Offerings

Our Team

Why Take the Cognitive Health Assessment (CHA) Training?

Californians who live to be 65 or older have a one in five chance of developing dementia. When someone has dementia, it impacts their whole life: their health, their financial security, their quality of life, and the wellbeing of their care partners.

If we detect earlier, we can also intervene to slow progression of dementia and help people have a higher quality of life. By taking the Cognitive Health Assessment training, you will learn how to screen for dementia and make earlier detection possible.

Explore Different Training Options

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Live Webinars

29

January

12 to 1 p.m

Dementia care pathways in primary care: from screening to care and action

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Live CHA Trainings

Learners only need to attend one live-virtual CHA training. Eligible learners can only claim one CE credit for the CHA training. No additional CE/CME is awarded should a learner attend more than one training.

Services & Offerings

Online Courses

Reinforce your learnings with additional self-paced trainings! Each offer FREE .5 CE/CME

Webinars

Attend monthly CME/CE-accredited live 60-minute webinars that present information on a variety of topics about dementia care.

Interactive Case Conferences (ECHOs)

Learn more in interactive and case-based live meetings with Dementia Care Aware experts.

Warmline Services

Live consultants, available 9 am - 5 pm PST, are ready to answer your questions. Call 1-800-933-1789.

Practice Support Consultation

Hands-on guidance and skill building for your practice and resources to make meaningful improvements in daily practice.

Case Conferences

UCI's Dementia Care Aware (DCA) ECHO Virtual Education Series

Every Friday, 12 to 1 p.m.

The ECHO Series provides training and support that empowers primary care teams to assess and address dementia through a variety of topics. Office hours featuring clinical experts are held on the 3rd Friday of every month from 12 to 1 p.m. Free CEs are available.

Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care ECHO® Program

UCSF Spring 2024 Cohort - REGISTRATION OPEN

The Alzheimer’s Association, in collaboration with UCSF’s Memory and Aging Center (MAC), is offering a Project ECHO® series targeting primary care clinicians and care teams throughout California. Partnering with faculty experts from the MAC, this program focuses on improving access to an accurate and timely diagnosis and receiving quality dementia care in the primary care setting. During this six-month program, primary care teams participate for one hour every other week to discuss real-life cases with guidance from specialty teams, providing the opportunity to enhance your skills and expertise in delivering evidence-based, high-quality dementia care to patients in local communities. For additional information, please contact the Alzheimer’s Association California Health Systems Team at  HSDCA@alz.org.

Take the Initiative to Screen for Dementia

Dementia Care Aware offers flexible and free online training, Continuing Medical Education (CME) Credits, personalized support, and more to operationalize dementia care.

About Us

Dementia Care Aware (DCA), a statewide program led by the University of California, San Francisco, to improve dementia detection and care in primary health systems, is thrilled to announce a strategic partnership with West Health to help advance dementia education, screenings and care, driving the next phase of the program. This collaboration will equip primary care teams with the tools to effectively detect dementia using Cognitive Health Assessments (CHA), diagnostic evaluation, care planning and support for patients and their health partners at every stage.

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