Specifications include, but are not limited to: Evaluate the Department’s ADRD Program and to develop and track an implementation plan for the CT ADRD State Plan. Throughout the project period CT DPH will apply a public health approach through collaboration with key partners to inform policy, systems, and environmental changes to decrease the burden of ADRD in the state. CT DPH will demonstrate progress on the following short term and intermediate outcomes: Increased number of community-clinical linkages among health care systems and existing services, public health agencies, and community-based organizations; Improved implementation of CT ADRD goals that are comprehensive across public health domains, ADRD topics, and prevention levels; and Increased awareness and understanding of ADRD topics among the general public, providers, and other professionals. This includes maintaining and enhancing a statewide ADRD coalition, that meets bimonthly, to lead partners in developing and tracking an Implementation Plan to aid implementation of the CT ADRD State Plan.
