title: Primary Care Collaborative Memory Clinics: Building Capacity for Optimized Dementia Care.
abstract: Increasingly, primary care collaborative memory clinics (PCCMCs) are being established to build capacity for person-centred dementia care. This paper reflects on the significance of PCCMCs within the system of care for older adults, supported with data from ongoing evaluation studies. Results highlight timelier access to assessment with a high proportion of patients being managed in primary care within a person-centred approach to care. Enhancing primary care capacity for dementia care with interprofessional and collaborative care will strengthen the system's ability to respond to increasing demands for service and mitigate the growth of wait times to access geriatric specialist assessment.
authors.affiliation: Family physician and director of the Primary Care Collaborative Memory Clinic, Centre for Family Medicine, Kitchener, Ontario; associate clinical professor with the Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University; and the Schlegel Research Chair in Primary Care for Elders, Schlegel-University of Waterloo, Research Institute for Aging, Waterloo, ON.
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Research associate with Specialized Geriatric Services, St. Joseph's Health Care, Parkwood Institute, London, Ontario, and the Aging, Rehabilitation & Geriatric Care Research Centre of the Lawson Health Research Institute, London, ON.
authors.forename: Loretta M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Hillier
authors.affiliation: Geriatrician at the Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario; medical director of the Regional Geriatric Program of Eastern Ontario; and associate professor, Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON.
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Molnar
authors.affiliation: Geriatrician and medical director for the Aging Brain and Memory Clinic/Geriatric Clinical Trials Group, St. Joseph's Health Care, Parkwood Institute, London, Ontario, and professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatric Medicine, Western University, London, ON.
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Borrie
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D057191:Capacity Building / Q000379:methods*; D003704:Dementia / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D008875:Middle Aged; D009864:Ontario; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires