Episode 17: Advancing Dementia Detection with Community Health Workers

Host Raj Shah, MD chats with Tracey Smith, DNP, PHCNS-BC, MS, Director of Community Health and the IPHA CHW Capacity Building Center, Illinois Public Health Association (IPHA) and Angelia Gower VP NAACP Madison, IL and Director of Health and Environmental Programs. They explore the experience of community-based organizations working with primary care physicians in underserved communities and discussing how community health workers can partner with local family medicine physicians to improve early detection of ADRD.

Learning Objectives:

- Describe two ways to incorporate CHWs into primary care practices in health systems

- Discuss barriers that systems must address to integrate CHWs

Earn 1-Hour State of Illinois Mandated Dementia Education CME iafp.mclms.net/en/