Partner Program

BOLD and B-SEEN are federally funded programs designed to enhance the US public health infrastructure around Alzheimer's Disease and related dementias (ADRD). In 2020 the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) was awarded a three-year grant to implement the Building Our Largest Dementia Infrastructure (BOLD) using Systematic Education, Evidence, and Networks (B-SEEN) project. Project teams engage in systemic population-based efforts to increase impact in the areas of dementia risk reduction, early diagnosis of ADRD, prevention and management of comorbidities and avoidable hospitalizations, and caregiving for persons with dementia. Georgia DPH's B-SEEN project implements evidence-based strategies and activities that address dementia and support the promotion of brain health among populations with a high burden of ADRD-specifically African Americans, Hispanics, and individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities, and those living in high burden rural areas.


The collaboration between Georgia Gear, Georgia Memory Net (GMN), and Georgia DPH's BOLD and B-SEEN programs will enable outreach to rural primary care providers, enhancing their age-friendly and dementia-friendly clinical care through continuing medical education, credit-providing training, and both in-person and Zoom-based sessions. This partnership will facilitate the placement of Emory medical learners (geriatric fellows; preventive medicine, family medicine (FM), and internal medicine (IM) residents; and UME students) into rural practice settings.

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