Reduce Caregiver
Strain
Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience
(GUIDE) Model
The Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model is a voluntary nationwide model test that aims to support people with dementia and their unpaid caregivers. The Center for Brain Health will be participating in this service delivery model focused on dementia care.
Services will be available July 1, 2025.
What is the GUIDE MODEL?
The GUIDE Model focuses on comprehensive, coordinated dementia care and aims to improve quality of life for people with dementia, reduce strain on their unpaid caregivers, and enable people with dementia to remain in their homes and communities. It will achieve these goals through Medicare payments for a comprehensive package of care coordination and care management, caregiver education and support, and respite services.
Improve
Quality of Life
Age in Place
Reduce Hospital
Encounters
How does GUIDE work?
Medicare pays for the dementia care management and care coordination services provided to you by the Center for Brain Health team.
There is no co-pay and insurance benefits and deductibles are not affected.
GUIDE Services
- Dementia Education
- Behavioral Strategies
- Supportive Counseling
- Advanced Directives
- Fall Prevention
- Reduce Hospital Encounters
- Caregiver Support Programs
- Home Assessment & More
From the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services:
- Dementia affects more than 6.7 million Americans in 2023, with 14 million projected cases by 2060.
- People with dementia often have multiple chronic conditions and receive fragmented care, leading to high rates of hospitalization and emergency department visits. They also may have behavioral health symptoms and often need 24/7 care. The challenges of managing health care, providing constant support, and dealing with the behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia can present a significant mental, physical, emotional, and financial burden for caregivers and disproportionately impact Black, Hispanic, and Asian Americans, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander populations.
- The GUIDE Model will set a standard approach to care, including 24/7 access to a support line, as well as caregiver training, education, and support services. This standard approach will allow people with dementia to remain safely in their homes for longer by preventing or delaying nursing home placement and improve quality of life for both people with dementia and their unpaid caregivers.
- To reduce disparities in access to dementia care services, the GUIDE Model incorporates policies to enhance health equity by ensuring that underserved communities have equal access to the model intervention.
