Shaping the Future of Dementia Care: GUIDE, Medicare, and What Comes Next

In this episode of Talking Dementia, Dr. Emily Silverman speaks with Edo Banach, healthcare attorney, policy leader, and newly appointed partner and co-chair of Foley Hoag’s healthcare practice. With more than 25 years shaping policy for older adults, Edo brings experience from CMS’s Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office to leading the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Today, he advises healthcare organizations and chairs the national GUIDE Council.

Edo shares his path from social services in New York City to becoming a leading voice in Medicare, hospice, and palliative care, reflecting on lessons from government, advocacy, and clinical care. The conversation centers on Medicare’s new GUIDE model, exploring how it shifts dementia care toward proactive, person-centered, interdisciplinary support, placing caregivers  ...