The Family Caregiver Platform Project; A Novel Nonpartisan Initiative

by Victoria Walker MD, CMD Caregiving is a universal human experience. Nearly all of us will find ourselves caring for another person who is ill, cognitively or physically disabled, elderly, or frail. Also, most of us will find ourselves needing care eventually, especially if we live long lives. A third of those living past the […]

LEAD Coalition proposes National Dementia Care and Services Research Summit

Today, 137 LEAD Coalition member organizations and supporters wrote to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services proposing a public-private partnership to organize a “National Research Summit on Care and Services for Persons with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias” to be held in the first half of 2016. Read the letter.