Offers a 6-month tele-mentoring program for primary care teams to improve quality Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias care in the primary care setting.
Target Audience: Physicians, nurses, and social workers. Continuing education credit available.

Offers 7 courses on topics including early-onset Alzheimer’s disease and epidemiology of these conditions in diverse populations.
Target Audience: Physicians, Alzheimer’s disease, and related dementias professionals. Continuing education credit available.

This course offers training modules to support health care providers in improving care for their patients living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Some topics covered include diagnosing non-Alzheimer’s disease dementia, end-of-life care, and safety precautions.
Target Audience: Physicians, nurses, and social workers. Continuing education credit available.

Provides free evidence-based courses on topics like obesity and dementia, diabetes and dementia, and hearing and dementia, to enhance the knowledge and support of professionals caring for people with dementia.
Target Audience: Health care and wellness providers. Continuing education credit available.

The VA Geriatrics Scholars Program offers learning opportunities to improve the care of older Veterans. This program offers a course on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and a toolkit with access to clinical tools and resources for patients and caregivers.
Target Audience: Physicians.

This 90-minute online training program is for the Cognitive Health Assessment (CHA). Providers who take the training are eligible to bill for the CHA for patients 65 and older with Medi-Cal only using code 1494F.
Target Audience: Primary care teams. Continuing education credit available.

This self-paced training includes 37 modules across four series: overview of dementia and health care provider roles, helping caregivers, addressing caregiver needs, and nursing home training.
Target Audience: Primary care practitioners, health professions faculty, students, members of a geriatrics care team, direct service workers.

Find information on using the 99483 Medicare code for cognitive assessment and care planning tools.

Find an overview about the Medicare Annual Wellness visit, tools, and videos demonstrating a cognitive assessment.

Find an overview of the cognitive assessment included in the Medicare’s Annual Wellness Visit and billing code information for cognitive assessments and care planning services.

Find a repository of resources and tools on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias screening, diagnosis, management, and more.

Find information and guidance on some of the clinical diagnostic differences between the major types of dementia.

Find information on cognitive assessments, diagnostic criteria related to Lewy body dementia, and download a comprehensive guide for diagnosing & managing Lewy body dementia.

Find a repository of cognitive impairment screening and assessment instruments, some instruments are also available in Spanish.

Find two presentations focused on supporting early detection of cognitive impairment in the primary care setting and promoting dementia risk reduction strategies among African American and Latino patients living in Los Angeles County.
Target Audience: Physicians

Offers guidance and tools to recognize normal cognition, diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, and identify memory problems requiring referral.

Provides resources and strategies to support dementia detection efforts within your practice.

Offers guidance in assessing an older adult’s ability to drive and resources to ensure driver safety.

Offers guidance and tools on working with people with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias that live alone.

Offers strategies on working with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities that have Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

Offers guidance in initiating conversations about brain health, diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, and resources for providing patients with community-based supports.

Find a repository of practice tool materials for clinical and community-based service providers in supporting patients with memory concerns.

Find information about current research studies and services and programs offered.

Offers information for healthcare providers and agencies on the patient referral process.

Offers information for UCLA primary care providers, neurologists, or psychiatrists on the patient referral process.

Find a repository of resources on engaging and recruiting patients for clinical trials and studies.

Find information on how to talk to patients about participating in clinical trials and ways to get involved with current research studies.

Find two PowerPoint presentations on educating older adult patients about risk reduction strategies for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias and the impact certain medications have on an older adult’s brain.

Find tips on effectively communicating with older adult patients about cognitive problems and how to include families and caregivers as part of the health care team.