Learning Health Network
What is the IMPACT AD/ADRD Learning Health Network?
The IMPACT Alzheimer’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease-related dementias (AD/ADRD) Learning Health Network is a consortium of individuals representing care settings and organizations joined by the common goal of improving care quality, equity and accessibility for people living with dementia and their care partners. The Learning Health Network is overseen and supported by the IMPACT Research Collaboratory: A group of health systems leaders and researchers dedicated to bringing together diverse health organization stakeholders to improve the care of people living with dementia and their care partners.
The Learning Health Network is comprised of four communities:
- Long-term Care (nursing homes, assisted living, and other settings that provide around-the-clock care for persons living with dementia)
- Healthcare Settings (Clinics, ACOs, MA Plans, Integrated Delivery Systems)
- Hospitals/Emergency Departments
- Community-based Organizations (Meals on Wheels, Hospice, Senior Centers, Adult Day Centers)
Why Join/Participate?
Enroll and represent your care setting or organization to participate in important opportunities to share experiences and generate new knowledge to improve care for people living with dementia and their care partners. Organizations that join the IMPACT AD/ADRD Learning Health Network can benefit in multiple ways.
- Participate in a setting specific community to explore shared questions and interests
- Receive cutting-edge information about relevant practice changes to meet the needs of caring for people with dementia and their care partners
- Access experts in dementia care and learn how to take your existing data and make it useful in a meaningful way
- Have a voice in identifying the biggest challenges caring for people with dementia and their caregivers and be a part of finding potential solutions
- Partner in non-pharmacologic research projects embedded within your care setting to address a problem that you are facing in delivering dementia care
What can you expect going forward?
- Quarterly updates on IMPACT activities and research developments
- Webinars available for information sharing and learning opportunities, for example to gain knowledge on quality improvement methods
- Opportunity to engage in periodic topic-specific conversations with organizations similar to your own to discuss the challenges and problems you face
- Invitations to participate in research at your site to test solutions to barriers you face in caring for people with dementia and their care partners
