Resilient Together for Dementia

PWD inclusion criteria are:

• Recent (~1 month) chart documented ADRD diagnosis,

• ADRD symptom onset after age 65 ,

• cognitive assessment scores and symptoms consistent with early stage dementia, asdetermined by the Clinical Dementia Rating Scale scores of .5 or 1.0

• cognitive awareness of his/her problems (as determined by the treating neurologist),and

• ability to understand study and research protocol, as determined by a standardizedteach-back method assessment84.

Additional inclusion criteria for dyads are:

• English speaking adults (18 years or older),

• dyad lives together,

• at least one partner endorses clinically significant emotional distress duringscreening (>7 on Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale subscales)

Exclusion Criteria:

• patient is deemed inappropriate by the neurology team,

• either partner has a co-occurring terminal illness,

• patient was diagnosed with forms of dementia with clinical profiles that wouldpreclude participation (e.g., Frontotemporal Dementia- behavioral variant), asdetermined by treatment team.