Collaborative Cognitive Care

Most healthcare providers and systems recognize the urgency of delivering better cognitive care. Few have the capacity to deliver it. BrainCheck and Kitwood Health exist to change that.

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THE PROBLEM

Why cognitive care stalls after identification

Nearly one in three seniors has some form of cognitive decline, such as Alzheimer's, other dementias, or MCI. However, only 30% have been diagnosed, and less than 5% receive adequate care and support. That’s millions of people falling through the cracks of a system that recognizes the problem but struggles to solve it. We call this the “Cognitive Care Gap”.

Delivering comprehensive cognitive care isn’t simple. It requires specialized skills, structured workflow, unique documentation, clinical coordination, and operational capacity that most practices and health systems simply do not have in place.

Structural Barriers

  • Primary care visits are time-limited.
  • Neurology capacity is constrained.
  • Diagnosing and supporting dementia patients and their caregivers requires specialized skills and significant time.
  • Documentation requirements are increasing.
  • Patient demand continues to grow as populations age.

The result: cognitive care frequently stops after initial identification.

WHAT IS COLLABORATIVE COGNITIVE CARE?

A specialized care model to expand internal capacity

In primary care, staffing limitations or operational bandwidth often make it difficult to fully deploy a structured cognitive care workflow internally. The same constraints are also common in neurology, leading to long patient wait times and limited opportunities for comprehensive care planning and longitudinal support, especially for caregivers.

In both settings, it's increasingly common for practices and health systems to engage specialized collaborative care organizations to embed a cognitive care program within their practice. Rather than leaving cognitive care inconsistent or unsupported, collaborative care provides an extra layer of support from within.

Collaborative care is fully integrated and white-labeled, meaning it operates entirely within your existing environment, under your brand, with no separate patient-facing branding. Documentation occurs in your EHR, billing stays with your practice, and all staff operate under your practice brand.

For your patients, the experience is seamless. For your team, the operational burden doesn't grow.

The services are delivered through appropriately structured medical entities operating in compliance with applicable state and federal regulations. 

THE SOLUTION

Kitwood Health delivers the program. BrainCheck powers it.

Closing the cognitive care gap requires clinical capacity, specialized skills, and the technology to make it scalable. That’s why BrainCheck and Kitwood Health work together to deliver a turn-key cognitive care solution.

COLLABORATIVE COGNITIVE CARE

Kitwood Health

Kitwood Health P.A. provides the clinical team, support staff, structured workflows, and care coordination that most healthcare providers and systems do not have the capacity or operational bandwidth to do on their own. Kitwood is led by specialized physicians who designed the cognitive care program and provide ongoing training and oversight to the clinical team. 

Services include:

  • Cognitive screening and assessment

  • Diagnostic evaluation
  • Dementia-specific care planning
  • Ongoing dementia and cognitive care management, including 24/7 access
  • Longitudinal education and support for care partners
  • Full documentation and billing support

TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM

BrainCheck

BrainCheck is the technology platform that enables Kitwood’s clinical program to be delivered consistently, at scale, within your existing practice.

The platform provides clinicians with the tools to assess, document, coordinate, and monitor cognitive care across patient populations.

The platform supports:

  • 30+ Screeners, including our FDA-cleared Class II digital cognitive assessment

  • Structured scoring, supported by a normative database 
  • Care plans, patient and dementia stage-specific
  • Ongoing monitoring tools
  • EHR integration
  • Population-level dementia risk scoring

Ready to close the cognitive care gap?

Talk with our team about bringing Collaborative Cognitive Care to your organization.

(1) All clinical decisions remain the responsibility of licensed treating providers. BrainCheck does not practice medicine.

(2) BrainCheck Assess is a Class II, 510(k)-exempt computerized cognitive assessment aid regulated by the FDA. It is indicated as an aid in the assessment of cognitive impairment and is not intended to be used as a standalone diagnostic tool. Refer to product labeling for full indications, limitations, and intended use.