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Eighteen LEAD Member and Partner Organizations Urge Congress to Avert Sequestration Cuts to Alzheimer’s and Related Disorders Research

Federal budget sequestration represents a looming threat to funding for Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders care, support and research. Eighteen LEAD Coalition member and partner organizations have joined with the Friends of the National Institute on Aging (FoNIA) in urging Congressional leaders to work aggressively toward a balanced budget solution that avoids cuts to aging […]

Thirty LEAD Member Organizations Urge Congress to Examine National Alzheimer’s Plan Implementation Progress

As federal agencies, the business and non-profit sectors work to implement America’s first-ever “National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease,” a wide cross section of LEAD member organizations are calling on Congress to examine the foundation being laid for progress on the aggressive and urgently needed goals of preventing and effectively treating Alzheimer’s disease by 2025, […]

National Alzheimer’s Plan Released; LEAD Calls for Congressional Resolutions to Support Implementation

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on May 15 released the nation’s first annual National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease, marking the beginning of the end of Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders as we have known them. The Obama Administration has set an ambitious, achievable and absolutely indispensible roadmap to effectively treat […]

Two Dozen LEAD Organizations Urge Secretary Sebelius to Embrace Advisory Council’s Recommendations for National Alzheimer’s Plan

As U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius works toward the mid-May release of America’s first-ever “National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease,” a wide cross section of LEAD member organizations recently joined together to support the full set of recommendations by the Advisory Council on Research, Care and Services–highlighting a collective sense of urgency for […]

Advisory Council Sends Secretary Sebelius 36 Recommendations for National Alzheimer’s Plan

As Secretary Sebelius and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services work toward the mid-May release of the first annual National Plan to Address Alzheimer’s Disease, on April 17th the public Advisory Council on Research, Care and Services unanimously approved and submitted a comprehensive set of 36 recommendations to improve Alzheimer’s research, care and services. […]