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Podcast – Improving Dementia Care Journeys

This episode of the Dementia Researcher Podcast is hosted by Dr Annalise Rahman-Filipiak and features Diane Ty and Rajiv Ahuja, authors of a pivotal report from the Milken Institute – Guiding the Care Journey.

In this show we discuss the report, its importance an findings – addressing critical challenges and presenting innovative solutions for dementia care in the United States, with a particular focus on the role of the care navigators.

While the report primarily addresses the U.S. context, its recommendations are deemed relevant globally, and the discussion aims to shed light on findings related to improving care for people living with dementia and their families, wherever you are.

• Download the report: bit.ly/3uEgvtq
• Visit the Milken website: milkeninstitute.org/

I think there’s technologies that we highlight in our report that will give providers and care navigators and other healthcare professionals more of an opportunity to increase that interaction. And so that’s the kind of area of technology that we tried to address and try to make a focus of dementia care. And so I think there’s three buckets of technology that we really emphasise.

They can automate scheduling appointments, they can analyse data from health records to raise red flags, to help triage kind of patient journeys as they go between different stages. They can identify when more resources need to be allocated, and then there’s a whole world of personalised recommendations that can be utilised through some of these machine learning and artificial intelligence.