The Hawaiʻi Dementia Initiative warmly invites you to join us for Bridging Care: Community-Clinical Partnerships for Dementia in Hawaiʻi, an in-person convening focused on strengthening collaboration to better support individuals living with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias (ADRD). Complimentary breakfast will be served at 8:00 AM. Valet parking validation will be provided.

This morning gathering will bring together healthcare providers, community organizations, and public health leaders to strengthen partnerships that support people living with ADRD. Through shared learning and dialogue, participants will explore best practices for referral systems, care coordination, and integrated service delivery. Grounded in Hawaiʻi’s values and community strengths, this event emphasizes collaboration and collective impact. Participants will leave with practical strategies to enhance community-clinical linkages statewide.

 Learning Objectives:

• Improved knowledge and awareness of innovations in Hawaiʻi’s dementia care system related to screening, testing, referral, and management of ADRD.
• Identify key components of effective community-clinical linkages for ADRD.
• Demonstrate knowledge of different roles within a team-based ADRD care model and how collaboration across these roles improves care coordination and health outcomes.
• Improved ability to identify practical strategies, based on the participant’s role, to strengthen referral and communication processes that support better ADRD care and outcomes.

This program is Approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Approval # 886993172-2295) for 3.0 continuing education contact hours. 3.0 credit hours for CME, CNE, RD, CHES, & IPCE are approved.

Presenter Biographies: 

Mia Taylor is a Family Nurse Practitioner with 40 years of nursing and leadership experience in both inpatient and outpatient settings including oncology, critical care, infectious diseases, care management, hospice and palliative care. Mia’s time at The Queens Health Systems has been devoted to development of community based clinical programs as part of The Queens Clinically Integrated Physician Network and Queens MSSP ACO. Her current role as Director of The Queen’s Physician Network and MSSP ACO including Community & Post-Acute Care Services has allowed her to be involved in the redesign of The Queens primary care delivery system to a team-based care model of care including integrated behavioral health. She is developing an ambulatory continuum of care that fosters community partnerships to improve patient access to timely high quality care.

Cindy D. Losbog, LCSW is a community social worker with 10+ years of experience in medical and community-based social work. She currently works with Queen’s Clinically Integrated Physicians Network, where she supports primary care providers through a cognitive clinical pathway, utilizing the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) to help guide patient care. Her work focuses on home safety assessments, identifying gaps in social determinants of health, caregiver support, and connecting patients and families to community-based resources to promote safe, patient-centered care.

Susan C. Price, MD, is the Chief of the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Care at Hawai‘i Pacific Health. Raised in Honolulu, she earned her medical degree from St. Louis University School of Medicine and completed her residency, chief residency, and geriatrics fellowship at Barnes-Jewish Hospitals at Washington University School of Medicine. Before returning home in 2018, she served for two decades as a Medical Director in the Division of Geriatrics and Extended Care at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center and as a clinical instructor at Stanford School of Medicine. She joined the HPH Geriatrics team in 2019 and became division chief in 2022. Her current work centers on directing the GUIDE program, a CMS-funded initiative aimed at developing an effective model for dementia care.

Diane Terada, MSW, LSW, is the Division Administrator of the Community & Senior Services Division, one of four program divisions of Catholic Charities Hawai̔ʻi (CCH). CCH is a private, nonprofit social service agency serving people in need in the state of Hawaiʻi since 1947. She has helped initiate services for persons living with dementia and their caregivers, as part of CCH’s Circle of Care for Dementia Project, funded through the Administration on Community Living’s Alzheimer’s Disease Project Initiatives. Diane has over 35 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, working in the field of aging, as well as over 15 years of experience as a family caregiver.

Instructions for Accommodations: We welcome all participants to our events. If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in this event because of a disability, please email us as soon as possible.