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🧠 ⚕️ Dementia begins as a breakdown in large-scale brain networks 5 to 10 years before obvious symptoms appear.

Health systems route those patients into neurology and geriatrics queues that stretch for months, which defers care during the window when intervention matters most.

One multi-state integrated delivery network redesigned that pathway and moved objective cognitive assessment into primary care.

Our white paper covers:
👉 the science of the detection window
👉 their selection criteria and rollout blueprint
👉 and the financial case under both fee-for-service and value-based care.

The earlier you know, applied at system scale.

Get the white paper: https://hubs.li/Q04y2nwP0

Awareness is an important part of changing the future of Alzheimer’s and dementia, opening the door to earlier identification, more proactive care, and better support along the care journey.

🧠 Following World Alzheimer’s Day, those conversations feel especially timely.

On October 6-7, Erin Smith, Chief Marketing Officer at Creyos, will be in Houston for the Alzheimer's Association Health Care Summit: Advancing Quality and Innovation.

We’re looking forward to conversations about what it takes to move brain health forward, from awareness to meaningful action in everyday care.

📍 Houston | October 6-7

If you're attending, be sure to say hello!

🧠 An estimated 15.5 million U.S. adults had an ADHD diagnosis in 2023, according to the CDC. Roughly half were diagnosed as adults.

Each diagnosis initiates years of follow-up:
👉 Is the medication working?
👉 Should the dose change?
👉 Is a shift in symptoms a treatment response, a bad week, or something else?

Most practices answer those questions with rating scales and self-report.

Our latest article looks at how Creyos supports monitoring ADHD over time with objective cognitive data, from baseline through follow-up: https://hubs.ly/Q04y2bQW0

💜 Today is World Alzheimer's Day, and this year's theme from Alzheimer's Disease International focuses on the value of an earlier diagnosis.

In the US, more than half of older adults diagnosed with dementia receive that diagnosis from a primary care physician. It often happens in a visit of about 18 minutes that also covers many other health concerns.

Our ebook, Confronting the Dementia Crisis, was written for primary care teams. It reviews current best practices for assessing MCI and dementia and includes a checklist for assessing practice readiness.

👉 Download the free ebook here:
https://hubs.li/Q04x-VL10

⚕️ Primary care physicians deliver difficult news all the time. Cancer, heart failure, stroke risk, end-of-life care.

A dementia diagnosis is different. It touches memory, judgment, independence, family relationships, and a person's sense of self at once, which is why it cannot be treated as a single disclosure moment.

Dr. Anthony Zizza, a board-certified geriatrician and Chief Medical Officer at Element Care, writes about the conversation itself:
👉 who should be in the room
👉 how to be honest and still leave room for hope
👉 and how the conversation changes with the stage of disease

Read it here: https://hubs.li/Q04xTBxl0

This fall, we’re looking forward to being part of important conversations about what’s next for dementia detection and care.

Across all three events, our focus is the same: how healthcare organizations can identify cognitive change earlier, create clearer pathways from screening to assessment, and better support patients throughout the dementia care journey.

This October, you can find us at:

📍 AMGA Integration Summit: October 5–7 | Washington, DC
📍 Alzheimer’s Association Health Care Summit: October 6–7 | Houston, TX
📍 AAN Fall Conference: October 9–11 | Las Vegas, NV

If you’ll be attending, we’d love to connect.

💊 Many older adults living with cognitive impairment take at least one anticholinergic medication, and higher burden independently predicts worse cognition.

Anticholinergics block acetylcholine signaling, the same pathway cholinesterase inhibitors work to increase. A medication list can end up internally contradictory, with one drug prescribed to support cognition and another working against it.

Screening for cognitive impairment in primary care can help surface these contributors, and reviewing the medication list is one of the things you can do once you know.

Dr. Anthony Zizza, a board-certified geriatrician and Chief Medical Officer at Element Care, walks through a practical deprescribing process.

Read it here: https://hubs.li/Q04xBPJ90

🧠 55% of primary care physicians report that their communities have too few dementia care specialists.

When a cognitive screen comes back abnormal, that shortage means a referral often has a long waiting period, all while the patient is still taking the same medications and the family is still making daily decisions.

The earlier you know, the more you can do.

Dr. Anthony Zizza, a board-certified geriatrician and Chief Medical Officer at Element Care, lays out what primary care can do in the 30 days after an abnormal screen.

Read it here: https://hubs.li/Q04x9Qd80

More than 90% of carers and members of the public say they would be encouraged to seek a dementia diagnosis if a disease-modifying treatment was available.

But a structured workup determines more than treatment eligibility. It can:
👉 surface treatable contributors to cognitive change
👉 initiate care planning while a patient can still take part
👉 put adherence supports and medication review in place before a crisis

Knowing earlier opens up treatment, care, and support options all at once.

Our latest article looks at what earlier detection makes possible.

Read it here: https://hubs.li/Q04wYGsF0

🧠 September is World Alzheimer's Month.

This year's theme, set by Alzheimer's Disease International, is:
The Earlier You Know, The More You Can Do: A Dementia Diagnosis Matters

We're spending the month on that idea, starting with the first half of it: Knowing earlier depends on whether screening can reach people.

In West Texas, the memory clinic at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center serves more than 40 counties across 4 states.

Most of those communities had no cognitive screening programs in place locally, so people reached care only once a crisis had already arrived.

So the clinic went out to them, setting up in libraries, senior centers, and community halls. In about a year, they screened more than 600 people.

👉 Read the full case study here: https://hubs.li/Q04wkhPr0