The Gerontologist’s May 2017 issue includes an article by HWRC Faculty Brooke Hollister, Jason Flatt, and Susan Chapman titled, “Dementia-Capable Care Coordination in Duals Demonstration Programs: Workforce Needs, Promising Practices, and Policy.” The study describes the program requirements, workforce competencies, and barriers for dementia-capable care coordination within health plans from seven states participating in the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services demonstration programs for dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. The authors find that the three-way contracts were often the starting point of a process to more clearly define policies and practices in each state, including workforce requirements, and recommend that efforts be made to further adopt and translate evidence-based practices into health systems as well as to evaluate promising practices.
