Clinic Network Member Resource Library

Annual Update in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias

Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute hosted its 22nd Annual Update in ADRD on November 8, 2024. Topics include managing sleep and dementia, links between gut and brain health, the role and impacts of structural racism on healthy aging; and updates in research and implementing new findings into daily practice.

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

The Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute Dementia Diagnostic Clinic Network spring meeting and core skills training was held May 17, 2024. Recordings of some of the presentations are on the member video library page.

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

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
  • Zarit Caregiver Burden Assessment – Word

Assessing Function

• Function Supplemental Form

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

• WAI Basic Marketing Plan
• WAI Statewide Clinic Network Brochure

Network Events

Spring Meeting May 2024 (Videos of presentations are available on the video library page)

• 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

• Starting a Dementia Diagnostic Clinic
• WAI Evaluation Components and Clinic Workflows

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

• WAI Affiliate Clinic Application
• WAI Affiliate Guidelines
• WAI Evaluation Value Chain

Working with Clinic Referral Sources

• Provider Guide for Cognitive Evaluation Referrals – Multiple Services
• Provider Guide for Cognitive Evaluation Referrals – Single Service