The AlzPossible Initiative consists of:

• ADMINISTRATIVE CORE

  • MISSION: Develop a plan for leveraging, linking, partnering or coordinating the activities of established programs, services or departments with relevant expertise.

  

• DATABASES CORE

  • MISSION: Create an accessible collection of extant databases on dementia-related research, clinical practices, and patient characteristics.

• EDUCATION CORE

  • MISSION: Establish a Commonwealth-wide Training and Education program to disseminate well-validated knowledge on diagnosis, treatments, care, services, programs, resources or other practical information to various consumers, including family members, care providers, community leaders, primary care physicians, staff of long term care and assisted living facilities, & students in professional schools.

  • MISSION: Create a statewide comprehensive one-stop information and referral system accessible to all needing information on all aspects of Alzheimer’s disease if it is to be successful. This one stop system must be able to provide simple and understandable answers to all the commonly asked what, where, when, why, and how questions.

• RESEARCH CORE

  • MISSION: Mobilize all of the relevant scientific and professional expertise within the Commonwealth to plan and establish a network of collaborating investigators or laboratories/clinics to conduct multi-site, multi-disciplinary researches, development and demonstration projects.

• SERVICES CORE

  • MISSION: Establish a Virtual Memory Disorders Consultative Clinic.

• POLICY CORE

  • MISSION: Identify and recommend to Virginia state government public policies which will better protect the financial, legal and long-term health care security of people with Alzheimer's disease and their families.

The actual "how" of the center is resolved through two segments, a public and a private one, respectively.

The private segment represents the workspace for the seven workgroups, a field of interaction with "offices" (forums), "conference rooms" (chatrooms), and a center newsletter (e-newsletter).  News, events, successes, future projects, call for partnerships and investments are then posted on the Public Segment of the Center, the present area of this website.  Whatever feedback passed on between the two areas, Public and Private, allows for an ongoing and open communication, opportunities to learn, inform, connect, improve and deliver at the highest levels of quality, effectiveness and efficiency.

To learn more about the originial concept and architecture, review our interview with Dr. Zaven Khachaturian as well as our article in Virginia Center on Aging's Age in Action Fall 2004 Newsletter.

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