A Program Plan and Evaluation Plan for the Carolina Alzheimer's Network: A Focus on the State-of-the-Art Workshop
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Hoyle, Joseph David
- Affiliation: Gillings School of Global Public Health, Public Health Leadership Program
- Abstract
- In July of 2008, two professors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine began the Carolina Alzheimer's Network, a program for expanding resources for specialized dementia care throughout the state of North Carolina. The Duke Endowment provided initial funds for equipping and networking primary care practitioners. In April of 2009, demonstration grant funding from the Administration on Aging became available to further the goal of the program by linking the network to aging services providers through the Area Agencies on Aging. Together, these two grants provide an opportunity for developing activities and infrastructure for sustainable improvements in dementia care throughout the state. As a graduate student in the Public Health Leadership Program, I became involved as a volunteer with several program activities in November of 2008. Based on my involvement, I have tried to provide, in this paper, an update on the program plan and evaluation plan for the Carolina Alzheimer's Network. The program plan seeks to meet the growing public health issue of dementia care in North Carolina, with a focus on poor, minority, and rural counties. For the purpose of initially networking primary care practitioners and equipping them with state-of-the-art tools for dementia assessment and management, the program plan includes providing continuing medical education workshops throughout the state. These workshops are also serving as an initial linking opportunity to aging services providers, the objective of the Administration on Aging demonstration grant. Other activities in the program plan include direct health services, enabling services, population-based services, and infrastructure services. The evaluation plan provides a framework for the entire program evaluation, but with a focus on the workshop evaluation. The role of the evaluation is broad and includes improving program activities, writing progress reports and disseminating program findings, and even planning new program activities. Using the RE-AIM (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, Maintenance) method, this evaluation plan seeks to fulfill the demonstration Administration on Aging grant purpose of developing knowledge which can be disseminated throughout the nation, while, at the same time, providing for program improvement and the development of a sustainable program for the citizens of North Carolina.
- Date of publication
- May 2009
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- Track: HC&P
- Paper type: Research or research design
- Advisor
- Calleson, Diane
- Reviewer
- Roberts, Ellen
- Degree
- Master of Public Health
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Graduation year
- 2009
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- b6f6bdeb-f0b9-4907-a2ad-769b5d2e1080
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