Alzheimer’s Association advocates celebrate Alzheimer's legislative victory

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December 17, 2014
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Alzheimer’s Association advocates celebrate Alzheimer's legislative victory
The Alzheimer's Association applauds Congress for creating a formal process to ensure that scientific judgment will guide them in future Alzheimer's disease research funding decisions. This critical provision comes from the Alzheimer's Accountability Act, which was fully incorporated within the fiscal year 2015 funding bill signed into law by President Obama.

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Writers and filmmakers examine Alzheimer's with new candor and empathy
With baby boomers approaching their 70s and Alzheimer’s becoming more common, fiction writers and filmmakers are illustrating the disease with works like “Still Alice.” "Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me" and "We Are Not Ourselves." These stories in popular culture are helping to raise the visibility of this country's most unaddressed public health crisis.
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