How do you help at-risk or cognitively impaired patients when the most helpful intervention is the one thing you never have enough of… time?
Dementia is preventable.
But our healthcare system isn’t designed to deliver evidence-based interventions that actually prevent dementia. This care is incredibly time consuming and requires a team of providers, clinical staff, and support staff who are trained in prevention, lifestyle medicine, cognitive care modalities, and health system navigation.
You want to help these patients, but you’re likely not given the time or resources needed to provide high-touch, wraparound care.
That’s why we’re here. Mindful Integrative Medicine is a team-based dementia prevention and cognitive care clinic led by primary care physicians.
We exist to partner with Central Pennsylvania’s primary care and neurology providers so that patients who are at risk for - or in the early stages of - cognitive decline can receive timely, personalize team-based care to protect and preserve their cognitive function.
We don’t want to replace you or the important role of the primary care provider - we want to fill the gaps that exist in our current healthcare system so that patients get the care they need.
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Our process is simple:
Evaluate and identify each patient’s current cognitive function and risk factors for cognitive decline or dementia.
Develop an individualized plan to prevent - or treat - cognitive impairment.
Support the brain health journey through health coaching, chronic care management, health system navigation, caregiver training and support, and coordination across the interdisciplinary care team.
If appropriate, streamline evaluation and referral for disease modifying therapy.
Learn more about how we understand and intervene on dementia risk by viewing our care overview.
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You see patients every day who would benefit from extra support of their brain health, including those who are:
worried about cognitive changes in themselves or a loved one
are at elevated risk for cognitive impairment but do not yet exhibit cognitive changes
have diagnosed mild cognitive impairment or dementia
need a referral to neurology for cognitive concerns
are the caregiver of a person living with dementia
We provide access to neuropsychological testing and domain-specific cognitive evaluation within days, not weeks or months. This increases the likelihood that cognitive impairment is identified before patients experience irreversible functional decline.
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Our model is designed around these guiding principles:
Access and Equity: We’ve enrolled as primary care providers with Medicaid and Medicare so that we can increase access to prevention and cognitive care. More information about the payers we work with is available here.
Team-Based Care: Patients need more than diagnosis and treatment - they need emotional support, education, lifestyle change, and more. We supply or coordinate with allied health and community resources to ensure these needs are met under the physician-directed care plan.
Integrative Approach: Brain health and mind health are inextricably linked, so while we use evidence-based Western medicine, we also embrace complimentary modalities to provide whole-person care.
A new model for care.
Mindful is built differently, because we believe that dementia requires a new model of care.
Whole Person Care
Adam Albert M.D., Medical Director of Mindful, is an expert in whole-person team-based care to improve quality of life and health outcomes. He has served our nation’s heroes as the Clinical Director of Whole Health and Primary Care at the Lebanon, PA VA Medical Center.
Advanced Technology
Founder John Showalter M.D. leads commercial research and development of advanced cognitive diagnostic tools and has over 20 years experience integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into care models to deliver cutting-edge healthcare.
Clinical Program Expertise
Founder & CEO, Grace Showalter R.N., MHIIM, is an expert in the development of equity-focused team-based population health models and has lead the development, training, and implementation of clinical programs for one of the largest ACO conveners in the nation.
Learn more about the Mindful team.