LEAD Coalition Pushes for New Federal Investments in Research, Care and Support

Sixty-nine LEAD Coalition member organizations and supporters wrote to the U.S. House and Senate appropriations leadership calling for overall NIH funding to reach $32 billion in fiscal year 2015, at least $200 million in new investments in dementia research and a $25 million expansion in care and support services through the Administration for Community Living. Read the Senate […]

LEAD Coalition Calls on U.S. Preventive Services Task Force to Encourage Cognitive Screening in Older Adults

Sixty-seven LEAD Coalition member organizations and supporters joined a formal comment submitted to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) in response to its “Draft Recommendation Statement: Screening for Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults.”  The comment urged USPSTF to issue a final Recommendation Statement grade of A or B, meaning the cognitive screening of older […]

My Journey from Caregiver to Activist

By Lynda Everman I’ve spent 18 years as an Alzheimer’s caregiver and the last four as an activist. This certainly was not my plan.  My 81-year-old dad began to show symptoms of dementia in 1994, the same year that former President Ronald Reagan published his now famous letter to the American people announcing his diagnosis […]