How it works | Kitwood Health

A Purpose-Built Model for Proactive Dementia Care

Dementia care is time-intensive, multi-step, and longitudinal by nature. Attempting to layer it onto standard workflows often leads to missed diagnoses, incomplete care planning, and fragmented follow-up.

Kitwood allows practices to deliver consistent, high-quality cognitive care without increasing your team's workload.

Kitwood addresses this by providing

Dedicated expert dementia care staffing, embedded into your practice
Efficient workflows designed specifically for dementia care
Operational execution and follow-through, not just tools or guidelines

Step-by-Step

The Dementia Care Workflow

Kitwood operationalizes dementia care as a structured, end-to-end workflow. Each step builds on the previous one, ensuring that identification leads to action — and that care continues over time.

Risk Scoring & Screening

Patients enter the cognitive care pathway through routine visits, clinician or care partner concern, or algorithm-identified risk factors. Kitwood supports reliable cognitive screening workflows aligned with Annual Wellness Visits and other appropriate care encounters.

Clinical Workup & Diagnosis

When screening or clinical concern points to further evaluation, we support a structured pathway from cognitive testing through diagnosis, without disrupting clinic flow.

Utilizing the best-in-class FDA-registered digital cognitive assessment from BrainCheck, we gather additional information to further pinpoint what is going on with the patient’s memory and thinking. From there, a cognition-focused E/M visit, along with labs, imaging, or specialist referrals as needed, helps determine whether an underlying medical cause is present.

We then apply current clinical practice guidelines to reach an accurate diagnosis through a comprehensive and clinically validated approach.

Personalized Dementia Care Plans

Assessment and diagnostic findings are translated into a structured, personalized care plan addressing medical, functional, safety, and care partner needs. Kitwood supports preparation, coordination, and documentation so care planning is complete, consistent, and actionable.

These care plan documents are practical next steps on what to do about the key areas of concern identified by the patients and care partners. The Kitwood Care Plan is a goal-directed roadmap, co-created with the patient and care partner, and anchored in the patient’s personal values, preferences, and clinical needs.

Ongoing Disease Management & Caregiver Support

Cognitive care does not end after diagnosis or care planning. This is where the impact begins. Kitwood provides structured longitudinal follow-up, reassessment coordination, and care partner education to ensure continuity as patient needs evolve.

All follow-up occurs within the primary care setting and is documented in the practice’s EHR instead of being farmed out to a three-party vendor.

Leveraging BrainCheck® Technology

Kitwood partners with BrainCheck®, a leader in digital cognitive assessment, care planning, and population health analytics. BrainCheck's platform is deployed by more than 500 healthcare organizations nationwide, including Bon Secours, UPMC, and Springfield Clinic, with BrainCheck Assess® as its flagship FDA Class II digital cognitive assessment tool.