Senior Housing News November 13, 2024
In the last two years, two drugs have been federally approved to slow the onset of Alzheimer’s disease in its early stages, but in order to effectively integrate these treatments into the health care system, health care systems must establish collaborative care models.
To do that, the Journal of the American Medial Association’s neurology division is calling on increasing care navigation services to increase the impact dementia diagnostics and treatments have across health care-related industries.
Jeffrey Burns, MD, who is the co-director of the University of Kansas Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, co-authored an editorial calling on health care organizations to create interdisciplinary teams to extend the reach of what he and co-authors termed the country’s “limited dementia specialty workforce.”
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