Medicare has a new pilot program to help people with dementia. Here’s how it works

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Medicare generally doesn’t offer much to assist the 6.9 million Americans over age 65 with dementia or their 11.5 million unpaid family caregivers. But a new pilot program called the GUIDE Model is changing that.

GUIDE, which stands for Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience and launched July 1, 2024, is creating a system of free caregiving navigators for people in Medicare who have any stage of dementia and their family caregivers.