Carallel, Plans4Care Team Up to Propel Success in CMS GUIDE Model
Two best-in-class solutions integrate to form personalized, comprehensive dementia caregiver support offering
CHICAGO, Sept. 3, 2024 — Leading family caregiver support company Carallel and Plans4Care, Inc., a company that specializes in digital personalized dementia care plans, have partnered to offer a holistic, evidence-based solution to help organizations scale GUIDE Model programs that support dementia patients and their diverse caregivers.
Provider organizations participating in the Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services can use the new integrated offering from Carallel and Plans4Care to meet GUIDE Model requirements for holistic caregiver support and education and with ease.
“Dementia patients rely heavily on family caregivers who face high rates of stress and burnout as a result of the pressures of their caregiving role,” said Shara Cohen, CEO, Carallel. “Plans4Care’s founding team of dementia care scientists are passionate about improving access to evidence-based dementia strategies. We’re excited to put Carallel and Plans4Care’s combined decades of experience together to serve GUIDE Model participants and make it easy for them to deliver research-backed dementia-care management strategies integrated with comprehensive caregiver support and navigation.”
Plans4Care offers a resource library of 2,000+ evidence-based strategies to address 80+ common caregiver challenges that are customized to a patient’s cognitive functioning. The organizations have integrated these strategies into Carallel’s specialized dementia caregiver engagement program, which has been shown to reduce dementia caregiver burden within just 60 days. Carallel’s dementia program provides highly personalized navigation and coaching via an expert team of Certified Dementia Practitioners and a robust digital platform designed specifically for caregivers.
“We started Plans4Care so caregivers for people living with dementia could access customized evidence-based strategies, tips and dementia education, to improve their well-being and reduce acute care utilization of people with dementia,” said Eric Jutkowitz, PhD, CEO and co-founder, Plans4Care. “Combining our powerful clinical algorithm and library of strategies and care challenges with Carallel’s care model, team of Certified Dementia Practitioners and caregiver support platform — which is already supporting hundreds of thousands of patients across the nation — is a win for all users.”
About Carallel
Carallel uses personal connection, expert guidance and digital tools to identify and empower caregivers so they can confidently manage the twists and turns of caregiving. Carallel partners with healthcare organizations, including a dozen leading payers, aiming to achieve better outcomes and employers striving to retain employees and improve life/work balance. The company’s proven, holistic approach to caregiver support resonates with caregivers, earning Carallel an overall Customer Satisfaction Score of 96% and a Net Promoter Score of 80. In 2024, Carallel received the Healthcare Insurance Innovation Award from the MedTech Breakthrough Awards Program. Learn more at www.carallel.com.
About Plans4Care
Plans4Care’s digital platform includes a library of 80+ common caregiver challenges and 2,000+ evidence-based strategies customized to the cognitive function of the person living with dementia and care context. Plans4Care empowers caregiving organizations by increasing their staff and institutional capacity to provide evidence-based dementia care on-demand. The company was founded by a team of dementia care scientists that have developed numerous evidence-based programs used worldwide that have been designated as Best Practices in Caregiving. To learn more contact Eric_Jutkowitz@plans4care.com.
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