
- Health care professionals, clinicians, and frontline workers,
- Long term care services and support (LTSS) providers and provider organizations (nursing facilities, adult day programs, assisted living facilities, home health care, and community-based agencies),
- Staff at Medicare-Medicaid Plans, Dual Eligible Special Needs Plans, managed LTSS plans, and
- Consumer organizations interested in strategies and best practices for building and expanding Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD) caregiver support programs
When: 2:00 pm EDT to 1:30 pm EDT
Description: “This webinar will explore innovative ways that health equity and caregiver support are addressed across ADRD programs supporting dually eligible people living with ADRD. The event speakers (Dr. David B. Reuben, Dr. Debra Cherry, Linda Wade-Bickel, Anita Chacon Terry, and Ed Mariscal) will review various strategies and lessons learned from existing programs for ensuring caregivers have the supports they need to care for a person living with ADRD, and speakers will also describe strategies for health plans to consider to support providers in their work with caregivers.“
Participants in this webinar will be able to:
- Identify unique challenges and needs for caregivers of those living with ADRD,
- Deliver innovative strategies and share examples of programs to support caregivers,
- Provide strategies that support the unique needs of diverse or underserved communities and address health equity, and
- Share lessons learned from implementation of caregiver support programs over the past 5-10 years