Fortune July 24, 2024
Medicare generally doesn’t offer much to assist the 6.9 million Americans over age 65 with dementia or their 11.5 million unpaid family caregivers. But a new pilot program called the GUIDE Model is changing that.
GUIDE, which stands for Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience and launched July 1, 2024, is creating a system of free caregiving navigators for people in Medicare who have any stage of dementia and their family caregivers.
The navigators get 20 hours of training to help recipients sort through the confusing, sometimes maddening, system of health care and long-term care, so they receive appropriate assistance.
They meet with the Medicare beneficiary or caregiver between once a quarter and twice a month or more, depending on the...
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