Home Health Care News August 13, 2024
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model on July 1, which aims to create more comprehensive, coordinated dementia care. Some home-based care providers have been named participants in the program, and many more plan to get involved.
CMS hopes the GUIDE Model will improve the quality of life for people with dementia, enabling them to live longer in their homes and communities and reducing strain on their unpaid caregivers. It is a long-term commitment, set to run for eight years.
It will promote improved dementia care by defining and requiring a comprehensive, standardized care delivery approach that includes a standardized set of services for patients and their caregivers, an interdisciplinary...