Care setting overview
Memory & Cognitive Disorders Center
BH-MCDDiagnostic clarification and coordinated care for cognitive and behavioral change across psychiatric, neurologic, medical, functional, and caregiving domains.
- Care model
- Interdisciplinary cognitive assessment and longitudinal care
- Typical pace
- Comprehensive evaluation with collateral, testing, and planned follow-up
- Population
- Adults with cognitive concerns, behavioral change, functional decline, or suspected neurocognitive disorder
Common presentations
- Memory loss, executive dysfunction, language change, and altered function
- Behavioral symptoms, mood change, psychosis, sleep disturbance, or caregiver concern
- Possible neurodegenerative, vascular, medication-related, psychiatric, or reversible contributors
PMHNP priorities
- Establish timeline, baseline function, collateral, and safety
- Distinguish delirium and reversible contributors from progressive change
- Coordinate testing, disclosure, treatment, caregiver support, and future planning
Care team
Geriatric psychiatrists, neurologists, PMHNPs, neuropsychologists, nurses, social workers, pharmacists, therapists, and caregivers