Online Program

Oral

Alzheimer's Disease and other dementias represent a significant public health burden. This session will address multiple aspects of the topic of Alzheimer's disease and dementia, including economic burden, early detection and diagnosis, nursing home quality of care, and caregiver burden.

Session Objectives: Identify the types of costs used to calculate the econonomic burden of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias Explain why it is important to implement evidence-based cognitive impairment detection tools in the primary care setting. Demonstrate whether and how facility-level dementia prevalence differentially impacts quality of care in nursing homes for residents with and without dementia. Identify caregiver socioemotional consequences in Behavioral variant Frontotemporal dementia.