Advocate

The Alzheimer's Association invites you to become an Alzheimer's advocate.  Join us and speak up for the needs and rights of people with Alzheimer's disease and their families.

Alzheimer's advocates play an important role in improving the quality of care and quality of life for people with Alzheimer's disease and their families by working to improve dementia care and services; improve access to community-based care; improve quality care in residential settings; and expand funding for research and public programs serving people with dementia.

As an advocate, you will:

• Receive regular updates about current legislative and public policy issues.
• Make calls or write to legislators to forward public policy priorities to improve quality of life for those living with Alzheimer's.
• Be able to participate in our annual lobby-rally day in Albany.
• Be able to participate in our annual Advocacy forum in Washington, DC.

Add your voice to ours - become an advocate today!

Save the date!
May 14, 2013
Register for our Rally to End Alzheimers
Albany, NY

Read about New York State's Alzheimer's Plan

2011 NYS Coordinating Council Report
2009 NYS Coordinating Council Report

Coalition of New York State Alzheimer's Chapters

2012 Legistative Agenda

2013 Advocacy Forum is a success!
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Landmark legislation passes

The National Alzheimer's Project Act (NAPA) is the largest legislative victory in many years for the Alzheimer's cause. Over the last several years, the Alzheimer's Association has been the leading voice in urging Congress and the White House to pass the National Alzheimer's Project Act (NAPA). The National Alzheimer's Project Act will create a coordinated national plan to overcome the Alzheimer's crisis and will ensure the coordination and evaluation of all national efforts in Alzheimer's research, clinical care, institutional, and home- and community-based programs and their outcomes. Alzheimer's advocates were instrumental in moving NAPA through Congress. More than 50,000 e-mails, nearly 10,000 phone calls and more than 1,000 meetings by the Alzheimer's Association and its advocates led us to the historic legislative
victory for the Alzheimer's community.

This is the beginning of the US HHS’s commitment – as part of the National Alzheimer Plan – to educate and build awareness about Alzheimer’s:

The answers start here.
I am not alone.
Understanding in key to help.
Know where to turn.