Alzheimer Advocate Blog

Please join us for a night of Advocacy and let us hear your NAPA input! Continue reading →

The Association is actively working on this issue and we strongly encourage the Governor and the Medicaid Redesign Team to reverse the decision and allow Medicaid to pay for nutritional supplements for persons with dementia, when their physician or other health care provider prescribes it. Continue reading →

As a member of the JC, I advocate in memory of my grandmother, for all who suffer with the disease, and for their caregivers. Continue reading →

Your voice counts as many in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. Continue reading →

It is the compassion and enthusiasm that I saw in Suzette, and members of all ages at the Alzheimer’s Advocacy Forum this week, which will help me, reinforce my fight against Alzheimer’s in New York. Continue reading →

What the facts and figures cannot do, the Ambassadors do. They tell their stories. Continue reading →

At the Alzheimer’s Association Advocacy Forum, the Alzheimer’s Association and representatives from Health and Human Services hosted the first public listening session on the implementation of the National Alzheimer’s Project Act (NAPA), a law that will create a national strategic plan to address the rapidly escalating Alzheimer’s crisis. Continue reading →

“The consequences of Alzheimer’s reaches far beyond any one individual,” Barnes said. “Stories like yours drive us forward as we work to implement a national plan.” Continue reading →

“I’ve seen things change,” he said. “Every generation of Americans has been allowed to dream, and every generation has seen some of their dreams come true.” Continue reading →