On November 9, 201 LEAD Coalition member organizations and allies wrote to the ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee (C&M) — a federal interdepartmental committee comprised of representatives from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) — to urge that it adopt […]

As LEAD Coalition members and allies know, the National Institute on Aging (NIA), in conjunction with the Department of Health and Human Services as part of the National Alzheimer’s Project Act (NAPA), planned to host the second National Research Summit on Care, Services, and Supports for Persons with Dementia and their Caregivers on March 24-25. […]

Today, 196 LEAD Coalition member organizations and allies wrote to Congress urging that the FY 2021 appropriations bills include substantial increases in funding to strengthen the national response to Alzheimer’s disease and related forms of dementia, along with including report language addressing lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic.  Read the Senate and House letters.