Project: Rural Dementia Telemedicine Initiative
Grantee: BrightPath Adult Day Services, Inc.
Contact: Sylvia Elexpuru, Project Director
Address: P.O. Box 279
Elko, Nevada 89803
Phone: 775-778-0547
Email: selex@frontiernet.net

Project Purpose:
The purpose of the Rural Dementia Telemedicine Initiative (RDTI) project is to establish a long-term, sustainable method of service delivery to Alzheimer’s (dementia) patients, caregivers and health care professionals involved in the delivery of diagnosis, disease management and treatment through the Center for Cognitive Aging’s (CCA) Alzheimer Disease Diagnostic and Treatment Center (ADDTC) via telemedicine. 

Project Service Area:
The service areas of this project are the rural and underserved communities of Nevada and other western states.  This project primarily serves the elderly, 65 year of age and over, including American Indian and Hispanic populations, which are spread over 95,763 square miles in the rural and frontier areas of Nevada alone.