Celebrate Success in Dementia Care

by Tim Gieseke MD, CMD

In the attached report provided by the CMS at the recent California Partnership to Improve Dementia Care meeting, Region 9 (California is in that region) has the lowest percentage of long-stay residents on antipsychotics at 13.69%.  For California, this is 13.46%, which is a 37.6% reduction since the inception of the partnership in 2012.    Lest we think we have arrived, Hawaii is the best at 7.56%. But California’s percentage reduction since the initiative to reduce antipsychotics began nationally in 2011 has been in the top 10 states with the largest reductions.

For more ideas on how to improve your dementia care, I’ve attached the physician tool kit developed by the partnership.

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