Promoting Alzheimer’s Awareness to Prevent Elder Abuse Act
Throughout the country, our tireless advocates are working hard to ensure critical bills like the Promoting Alzheimer’s Awareness to Prevent Elder Abuse Act (P.L. 116-252) are becoming law. Signed into law in December 2020, the Promoting Alzheimer’s Awareness to Prevent Elder Abuse Act is helping people living with Alzheimer’s and other dementias by ensuring professionals, such as police officers, medical personnel, and prosecutors, have the dementia-specific training they need to better protect these individuals from elder abuse.
Unfortunately, people living with Alzheimer’s and other dementia are at heightened risk for experiencing elder abuse — the intentional or negligent act by any person that causes serious harm to an older adult. Thanks to our dedicated advocate network, individuals living with Alzheimer’s now have better protection from elder abuse.
Reach out to our free 24/7 Helpline (800.272.3900) for additional resources to help navigate Alzheimer’s and other dementia.
Be a Champion in the Fight to End Alzheimer’s
Our voices are stronger together. Help AIM advance legislation to improve the lives of people impacted by Alzheimer’s and all other dementia.
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Federal Priorities
Access to Treatment
A restrictive Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) policy that only applies to those living with Alzheimer’s disease is blocking access to FDA-approved treatments. CMS must reverse its unprecedented decision that denies Medicare coverage of current and future treatments for Alzheimer’s.
A National Response to Alzheimer’s and Other Dementia
The bipartisan NAPA Reauthorization Act and the Alzheimer’s Accountability and Investment Act would build on the progress made over the last decade by continuing to promote rapid research and improve the delivery of clinical care and services for people living with Alzheimer’s.