GUIDE to Dementia Care
Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) is a new program from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to help care for people with dementia. AuthoraCare Collective is a CMS-approved GUIDE program provider. The goals of the program are:
- To improve quality of life for people living with dementia.
- Reduce strain on their caregivers.
- To help people living with dementia remain in their homes.
We can offer a Care Navigator who will help you or your loved one with your dementia journey.
Who Can Benefit From GUIDE?
- Patients with dementia: The GUIDE program is available to those with dementia at any stage.
- GUIDE is limited to patients living at home: To qualify, the patient must be living in their home, or an independent or assisted living facility. Read more about GUIDE here.
Advanced Illness Care for Dementia
The goal of advanced illness or palliative care is to help patients and their families achieve a better quality of life by assisting with advanced care planning, identifying interventions that can improve care and addressing symptoms of dementia by establishing goals of care. As care needs increase, patients or their caregivers may choose to receive palliative care even while receiving treatment for their dementia symptoms to optimize outcomes for the patient and their caregivers.
If you or your loved one have advancing dementia, you are likely a good candidate for receiving comfort care. Read more about advanced illness care here, or contact AuthoraCare’s care team.
Hospice Care for Dementia
Hospice care helps patients coping with terminal dementia by providing care to address the mental, emotional and physical distress caused by dementia symptoms. Patients with dementia who are admitted to AuthoraCare’s hospice program will receive expert, in-home medical and nursing care to help them live with dignity and provide comfort as their disease progresses. Click here to learn more about the benefits of hospice care.
End-stage symptoms may vary depending on the type of dementia. However, there are many symptoms that are the same regardless of the type. As patients become increasingly frail, they are less able to fight infections. Due to this frailty, severe infections such as pneumonia develop quickly and are the leading cause of death for patients with dementia.
