title: The Northern California Chronic Care Network for Dementia.
abstract: The Northern California Chronic Care Network for Dementia brings together Northern California's major providers of managed care, community-based care, consumer education, and advocacy in new partnerships to improve the care of persons with dementia enrolled in managed care plans and their family caregivers. These partnerships are part of a national initiative entitled the Chronic Care Network for Alzheimer's Disease (CCN/AD) sponsored by the National Chronic Care Consortium and the Alzheimer's Association. This initiative selected eight promising provider-consumer partnerships across the country to implement and evaluate a new model of coordinated care for people with dementia and their families. This paper describes the Northern California network's partnerships and its intervention and challenges. The intervention is grounded in the key components of the CCN/AD model: "identification of patients with possible dementia, diagnostic assessment, care management and family caregiver information and support." These components, in turn, are translated into protocols and pathways designed to create timely, comprehensive, appropriate, and effective systems of care services that address the unique needs of dementia patients and their caregivers over the course of the disease.
authors.affiliation: Institute on Aging (formerly Goldman Institute on Aging), San Francisco, California 94118, USA. dcoon@ioaging.org
authors.forename: David W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Coon
authors.forename: Marilyn P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: Richard J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Moore
authors.forename: Elizabeth S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Edgerly
authors.forename: Catherine M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Steinbach
authors.forename: Susan P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Roth
authors.forename: Cheryl L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Phillips
authors.forename: Hanh
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: Glenna A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Dowling
authors.forename: Erika A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Dunning
authors.forename: Lawrence Z
authors.initials: LZ
authors.lastname: Feigenbaum
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D003704:Dementia / Q000628:therapy*; D006265:Health Care Coalitions / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D009937:Organizational Objectives