The Care Ecosystem: The Effectiveness and Implementation of Telephone‐Based Collaborative Dementia Care

Health systems are increasingly interested in collaborative dementia care. Implementation challenges include the limited dementia specialist workforce, time pressures of high‐volume care, increasing use of telemedicine, and inadequate reimbursement. The Care Ecosystem is a telephone‐based collaborative dementia care model designed to augment existing healthcare services and be amenable to scale. Here we present the latest evidence for the Care Ecosystem, including the effects among subpopulations at risk for health disparities (rural and Hispanic/Latino), and facilitators from the early phase of Care Ecosystem implementation at 6 diverse health systems.