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Mechanisms for Organizational Behavior Change to Address the Needs of People Living with Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias: A Workshop

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The Department of Health and Human Services desires to explore mechanisms that might improve care to meet the needs of people living with Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias (AD/ADRD). The National Academies will host a workshop to discuss possible health outcomes and care processes that may be explored as highly responsive to hospital organizational behavioral changes to improve care.

Description

A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will plan and execute a public, 2-day workshop to explore mechanisms that might improve care to meet the needs of people living with Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease-Related Dementias (AD/ADRD), connected to sustainable payment models that can be adopted by organizations. While many health systems, public health, and social service systems are re-designing their programs and processes to address the current siloed nature of care and service delivery, there remains a gap in understanding how to reliably implement organizational behavior change initiatives to better serve people living with AD/ADRD. Possible health outcomes and care processes that may be explored as highly responsive to hospital organizational behavioral changes include:

1. healthcare associated infections (HAIs);

2. in-facility safety (mobility promotion, fall prevention, physical restraints);

3. mentation management services (evaluating and addressing psychological and psychiatric symptoms);

4. care transitions (including medication reconciliation); and

5. person-centered care (assessments of what matters to people living with AD/ADRD, including person-centered care goals and advance care planning).

The workshop planning committee will define the specific topics to be addressed, develop the agenda, and select and invite speakers and other participants. After the workshop, proceedings of a workshop of the presentations and discussions at the workshop will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.

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