Risk-Based Strategies for Referrals to Community Services for Older Adults with Dementia and their Care Partners

A person living with dementia and their care partner often have needs for a variety of community supports that enables them to achieve their greatest potential function and quality of life. This podcast episode addresses the fourth step of the KAER Framework: Refer for Community Services. Our guests discuss how interdisciplinary care teams in primary care can use risk-based strategies to refer older adults with dementia and their care partners to appropriate community services, and they share strategies for success that they and their interdisciplinary colleagues use in the Emory Integrated Memory Care Clinic – a nurse-led primary care practice for people living with dementia.  Download the Transcript Guests:  Carolyn K. Clevenger, DNP, GNP-BC, FAANP, FGSA, FAAN Professor, The Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University Clinical Director/Practicing Nurse Practitioner, The Emory Integrated Memory Care Clinic Laura Medders, LCSW  Administrative Director, The Emory Integrated Memory Care Clinic Host: Jennifer Pettis, MS, RN, CNE Director of Strategic Alliances, The Gerontological Society of America  This podcast episode is supported by Eisai, Genentech, Lilly, and Otsuka.