The NYUCI timeline is a structured set of sessions that you will follow when working with families. The timeline includes: 

Introductory Meeting

The NYUCI Introductory Meeting is an opportunity to meet and get to know the spousal or partner caregiver of the person with dementia. It consists of two parts, described below (Initial Contact and Intake Assessment).

Over the past years, the developers of the NYUCI have begun to offer the delivery of the NYUCI intervention via online videoconferencing. While similar in many ways to meeting with family in person, conducting the NYUCI via videoconferencing has some significant differences that requires additional training—especially in terms of clinical considerations, since counselors are not in the same physical space as the caregiver or family members.

The New York University Caregiver Intervention (known as the “NYUCI”) is a clinical intervention (structured program) originally developed in the 1980s for caregivers of spouses or partners with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. The NYUCI is a “multi-component intervention” (a structured counseling program) individualized for families caring for someone with Alzheimer’s disease or other form of dementia.

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