In this episode, Dr. Cheryl Phillips, a nationally recognized expert in geriatrics and health policy, speaks about her lifelong mission to improve elder care. She shares her powerful childhood story of witnessing the lack of dignity in a nursing home, which inspired her to become a geriatrician and systems-level leader. Cheryl explores how new payment models like CMS’s GUIDE program are finally aligning incentives to support a whole-person approach to care, emphasizing that a dementia diagnosis is not just a medical problem, but one that requires a full support system.

About this episode’s featured guest

Dr. Cheryl Phillips is a nationally recognized expert in geriatrics and health policy. She's the former CEO of the Special Needs Plan Alliance and now serves as a senior consultant with the John A. Hartford Foundation's Age-Friendly Health Systems Initiative. A fellowship-trained geriatrician, Dr. Phillips has led major efforts in Medicare Advantage, special needs plans, and long-term care. She's a past president of both the American Geriatric Society and the American Medical Directors Association and regularly advises federal agencies on elder care policy.

Learn more about Dr. Phillips here.

About Remo’s host Dr. Emily Silverman

Dr. Emily Silverman is an internal-medicine physician, Assistant Volunteer Professor of Medicine at UCSF. She is the creator and host of The Nocturnists, an award-winning medical storytelling program that has uplifted the voices of more than 450 clinicians since 2016 through its podcast and live performances. Her work has been supported by a MacDowell fellowship and widely published in numerous publications including JAMA, The New York Times, and NPR. Learn more about Emily by visiting her website.

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A Whole-Person Approach to Dementia Care with GUIDE