CMS Accepting Applications for GUIDE

The Health Group 

CMS is now accepting applications for the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (“GUIDE”) Model.  The GUIDE Model will focus on dementia care management and aims to improve quality of life for people living with dementia, reduce strain on their unpaid caregivers, and enable people living with dementia to remain in their home and communities.  The program is intended to provide a comprehensive package of care coordination and management, caregiver education and support, and respite services.

Through the GUIDE Model, CMS will test an alternative payment for participants that deliver key supportive services to people with dementia, including comprehensive, person-centered assessments and care plans, care coordination, and 24/7 access to a support line. Under the model, participants will assign people with dementia and their caregivers to a care navigator who will help them access services and supports, including clinical services and non-clinical services such as meals and transportation through community-based organizations. 

Additional details are available here and here.