Clinic Network Member Resource Library
2026 DDCN Spring Meeting
Meeting presentations (pdfs)
- Plasma Biomarkers in Context – Rachael Wilson, PhD
- Implementing Anti-Amyloid Monoclonal Treatments: Clinical and Programmatic Insights – Robert Przybelski, MD, MS; Kaye McGrath, DNP, FNP-BC, APNP; Lyndsey Grander, BSN, RN, GERO-BC
- Clinical Integration of Blood Biomarkers – Wilson, Przybelski, McGrath
- Insights into our WAI Community of Practice – Jennifer Landeta Vidal, MPH
- Spring network progress, updates and discussion – Cynthia Carlsson, MD, MS
Watch now: Core Skills Training
2025 DDCN Fall Meeting
Meeting presentations (pdfs)
Meeting presentations (pdfs)
- Welcome and Introduction – Cynthia Carlsson, MD, MS
- Updates from our WAI Community of Practice – Jennifer Landeta Vidal, MPH and Tamara LeCaire, PhD
- Genetic Counseling and Testing in Dementia – Abigail Freeman, MS, CGC
Watch Now: Genetic Counseling and Testing in Dementia presentation
2025 Spring core skills training
May 16, 2025
Watch now: event recording on YouTube
PDFs of presentations:
- Event agenda and program
- Supporting Wisconsin Family Caregivers
- Age-friendly Sealth Systems: Evidence-based care for all older adults
- Developing tools and communication for blood-based biomarkers in primary care
- ADHD and Late-Life Cognitive Decline
- Engaging patients and care-partners in conversations about transitions to non-driving
- Exploring opportunities to impact clinical care
- When Others Speak for You: Supporting surrogate decision makers
- Spring clinic network report
Resource Library Contents
Aducanumab (Aduhelm)
- June 2021 Clinic Network membership meeting Aducanumab
- Alzheimer’s disease experts discussed aducanumab during a program hosted by Wisconsin ADRC – Watch on YouTube
Assessing Abuse and Neglect
- Elder Mistreatment Instruments
- WI Abuse, Neglect, Exploration: What to Look For
- WI Annual Elder Abuse and Neglect Report 2020
Assessing Caregiver Burden
- Caregiver Well-Being Toolkit – Brown University
- Zarit Caregiver Burden Assessment Instruments – PDF
Assessing Function
CMS Model Guide documents
- FAQ overview of the guide
- PRAPARE protocol
- GUIDE Model overview factsheet
- ADC Webinar presentation slides
- The Business of Providing Dementia Care in Primary Care (presentation pdfs)
- CMS webinar presentation slides – Overview of the GUIDE model
- Accountable Health Community – Health Social Needs Screening tool (pdf)
- CMS GUIDE Model letter of intent
- National Public Health Response to ADRD – article from Alzheimer’s & Dementia
Coding and Billing Basics
- Coding Basics for Clinic Network Members
- Relevant CPT Codes for Dementia Evaluation and Care
- Video: Coding Basics for Clinic Network Members
Data Collection
- Data Form Reference Guide
- Data Use Agreement
- Final WAI 7th Edition – Word Doc.
- Final WAI 7th Edition – PDF
Lecanemab
- Putting Lecanemab into Practice: A Physician’s Perspective on the Dementia Matters podcast
- Wisconsin ADRC and WAI researchers discuss lecanemab on Dementia Matters podcast video exclusive
Marketing
Network Events (recordings can be found on the recording library page)
2024 Annual Update in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias
PDFs of Presentations
- Introduction – Cynthia Carlsson, MD, MS
- Clinical and Imaging Features of LATE – David Wolk, MD
- Advancing Detection in the Emergency Department – Brain Patterson, MD, MPH
- Insomnia in Older Adults Living with Cognitive Impairment – Meghan Mattos, PhD, RN
- Making sure today’s care partners don’t become tomorrow’s patients – Beth Fields, PhD, OTR/L, BCG
- Gut health and Alzheimer’s disease – Barbara Bendlin, PhD
Spring core skills training and network meeting May 17, 2024
Pdfs of presentations
- Core skills training introduction
- Core skills training agenda, Network meeting agenda
- Safety Assessment in Dementia Care: Using Functional Change to Guide the Way
- Improving Identification and Prevention of Elder Abuse
- Unlocking the Silent World: Understanding deafness, language, and memory
- Clinic network analysis
Spring Meeting May 2024
- Dx of Neurocognitve Disorders in Geriatric Memory Clinics – Lindsay Clark, PhD
- Assessing Capacity in the Memory Care Setting – Victoria Williams, PhD
- Clinic Network Analysis – Uriel Paniagua, MPH
- Memory Triage Clinic and Reimagining Operations to Optimize Services – Alexis Eastman, MD
- Monoclonal Anti-Amyloid Treatment: The Good, The Bad, and The Difficult – Robert Przybelski, MD, MS
Handouts and Resources
- Lecanemab: Appropriate use recommendations
- Lecanemab/Quartz authorization criteria
- Aducanumab: Appropriate use recommendations
- WAI Clinic Network data info forms
2023 Annual Update and Fall Meeting 2023:
The 21st Annual Update in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias was held Nov.2-Nov.3, 2023 virtually and in-person in Madison, WI.
- Conference overview – Cynthia Carlsson, MD, MS
- The Era of Disease Modifying Therapies for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias – Gregory Jicha, MD, Phd
- Early Detection of Dementia: Challenges and Opportunities – Joshua Chodosh, MD, MSHS
- Healthcare Access for Latinx Communities: The right care at the right time at the right place – Maria Mora Pinzon, MD, MS, FACPM
- Speech and Language Changes Along the Continuum of Alzheimer’s Disease – Kim Mueller, PhD, CCC-SLP
20th Annual Update and Fall Meeting November 2022:
- Welcome and 20 year reflections, Dr. Carlsson – Presentation slides
- Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Construct in Evolution by Dr. Ronald Petersen – Powerpoint slides 6 per page, 2 per page
- Caregiving While Black: Addressing the Cultural Realities by Dr. Fayron Epps – Powerpoint slides 2 per page, 6 slides per page
- Promoting Physical Activity in Older Lations with MCI by Dr. Adriana Perez – Powerpoint slides 2 per page, 6 slides per page
- New Findings in the Preclinical Phase of AD, Dr. Sterling Johnson – Powerpoint slides 2 per page, 6 slides per page
- Diagnosis and Management of Dementia, Dr. Bouges – Powerpoint slides 2 per page
- Late Life Substance Use Disorder in Cognitive Impairment, Dr. Radue – Powerpoint slides 6 per page, 2 per page
- Difficult Conversations Around Palliative Care, Dr. Bukowy – Powerpoint slides 2 per page, 6 per page
Spring Meeting May 2022:
- Clinic network analysis – pdf
- BOLD Grant care planning code discussion – pdf
- Most difficult case conference / Kiefer and Blum – pdf
- Most difficult case conference / Dodson – pdf
- Core skills training agenda and speaker bios – pdf
- Addressing driving safety in people with dementia – pdf
- Using animal models to identify clinical risk factors in the older population due to alcohol use and misuse – report, presentation slides
- A clinical approach to treating African Americans with memory loss – pdf
- Dementia Diagnostic Clinic Network Spring Meeting – pdf
Fall Meeting November 2021:
- Quality of care among persons with dementia and co-occuring chronic disease
- Siblings Caring for Parents with Dementia
- A Unique Pattern on Memory Testing in Patients on Dementia Screening Predicts OSA
2021 May network meeting materials:
- Pdfs of presentations – single slide format
Pdfs of presentations – 6 slides format
Screening for Clinic
- Intake Screening Pre-Appointment Combined Form
- Screening for Dementia Diagnostic Clinic
- What to Bring to Your Assessment Appointment
Starting a Dementia Diagnostic Clinic
Supported Decision Making
- GWAAR Supported Decision Making – pdf
- Supported Decision Making in Later Life article – pdf
- Support Decision Making Toolkit – 25 page pdf
- Supported Decision Making Agreement – pdf
- U.S. States with Supported Decision-Making laws – pdf
- Supported Decision Making Agreement Wisconsin (Download Word document)
- WI Legislative Act memo Supported Decision Making – pdf
Treatment Planning and Execution
- Evaluation Results and Recommendations Form
- Referral for Information and Assistance Form
- WAI Universal Referral Form
WAI Affiliation
Working with Clinic Referral Sources
Training Videos
Event recordings and videos for network members