Comprehensive home-based care coordination for vulnerable elders with dementia: Maximizing Independence at Home-Plus-Study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Despite availability of effective care strategies for dementia, most health care systems are not yet organized or equipped to provide comprehensive family-centered dementia care management. Maximizing Independence at Home-Plus is a promising new model of dementia care coordination being tested in the U.S. through a Health Care Innovation Award funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that may serve as a model to address these delivery gaps, improve outcomes, and lower costs. This report provides an overview of the Health Care Innovation Award aims, study design, and methodology.

Methods

This is a prospective, quasi-experimental intervention study of 342 community-living Medicare-Medicaid dual eligibles and Medicare-only beneficiaries with dementi

SUBMITTER: Samus QM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5870897 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature