This Dementia Care Aware webinar, The First Signs of Alzheimer’s – and What You Should Do About Them, is the thirty-seventh in the series. In this session, Anna Chodos, MD, MPH, Executive Director of Dementia Care Aware, and Jessica De Leon, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, discuss recognizing the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s disease, identifying approaches for detecting it in its earliest stages, and communicating an early diagnosis with patients and their caregivers. 

Presenters:   

Anna Chodos, MD, MPH, Executive Director of Dementia Care Aware  

Jessica De Leon, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology at the UCSF Memory 

This Dementia Care Aware webinar, Dementia Care Aware and Age-Friendly Recognition: An FQHC Case Study, is the thirty-sixth in the series. In this session, Dementia Care Aware, LifeLong Medical Care, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) explore how age-friendly care principles can be translated into ambulatory clinical settings.

This session focuses on mentation, the 4Ms domain most closely tied to dementia screening, and how health systems can go beyond Age-Friendly recognition to implement it meaningfully. LifeLong Medical Care shares their experience as an Age-Friendly certified FQHC and how partnering with Dementia Care Aware helped them deepen their mentation practice. 

Presenters:  

• Anna Chodos, MD, MPH, Executive Director of Dementia Care Aware 

• Michael Goldrich, MD, LifeLong Medical Care 

• Kelly McCutcheon Adams, MSW, LICSW, Institute for Healthcare Improvement 

• Nicole Korp, MS, Institute for Healthcare Improvement 

This Dementia Care Aware webinar, Practical Tools and Strategies for Quality Dementia Care: A Focus on D-SNP Members, is the thirty-fifth in the series, providing a high-level overview of D-SNPs and DHCS expectations and clarifying where dementia screening and care fit within those requirements. Learn how to operationalize meaningful dementia care through navigation and specialist support, and examine how Dementia Care Aware can serve as a practical, scalable strategy for implementing dementia screening within D-SNP networks. 

Presenters:  

• Barbra McLendon, MSW, Associate Vice President, Public Policy 

• Jennifer Schlesinger, MPH, CHES, VP, Healthcare Services & Professional Training, Alzheimer’s Los Angeles 

• Anna Chodos, MD, MPH, Executive Director of Dementia Care Aware