“Dementia care planning benefit largely untapped: testimony,” by Alicia Lasek, McKnight’s LTC News

“Dementia care planning can reduce emergency room visits and hospitalizations while improving medication management. But relatively few clinicians are aware of Medicare’s care planning benefit, said Robert Egge, chief public policy officer of the Alzheimer’s Association, during recent testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee. In 2017, the first year the benefit was available, fewer than 1% of those living with cognitive impairment received care planning, according to a recent study.”

 

LTC Comment (from Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform):

The more Medicare pretends to address dementia, the harder the fall as 2026 insolvency approaches.