For Clinicians

Help shape caregiver support that actually works.

We're recruiting Alzheimer's and dementia specialists, geriatric clinicians, social workers, and care navigators to collaborate as we build and validate an intervention for Dementia Caregiver Syndrome.

There is a gap in clinical practice. Dementia caregivers experience a predictable, progressive, multi-system syndrome that unfolds over years — affecting sleep architecture, immune function, cardiovascular health, cognitive performance, and mental health. Yet no diagnostic code captures it. No screening protocol detects it early. No reimbursement pathway incentivizes treating it. The caregiver sits in the exam room with the patient, invisible to the system designed to bill for only one person at a time.

We are building the clinical, technological, and research infrastructure to change that. This section of our site is designed to be useful to you right now — validated screening tools, billable codes, referral pathways, evidence-ranked interventions — while also inviting you into the longer project of formalizing Dementia Caregiver Syndrome as a recognized clinical construct.

81%

of depressed dementia caregivers receive no antidepressant treatment.

64\u201379% use no professional support services at all.

Alzheimer's Association, 2024; Brodaty et al.

Clinical Resources

Tools, frameworks, and pathways

The clinical reality

53M

Unpaid caregivers in the U.S.

Over 11 million provide care specifically for someone with Alzheimer's or another dementia.

Alzheimer's Association, 2024

6x

Higher depression risk

Dementia caregivers experience clinical depression at six times the rate of the general population.

Cuijpers, 2005

63%

Higher mortality rate

Strained elderly spousal caregivers have a 63% higher mortality rate than non-caregiving controls over four years.

Schulz & Beach, JAMA, 1999

Ready to collaborate?

We're looking for clinicians who see this gap every day and want to help close it.

Apply to Collaborate