Thanks to our hardworking advocates across the nation, AIM is leading the way to develop, introduce and grow support for laws like the bipartisan Building Our Largest Dementia (BOLD) Infrastructure for Alzheimer's Act (P.L.115-406). Signed into law in 2018, this critical law is creating an Alzheimer’s public health infrastructure across the country to implement effective Alzheimer’s interventions focused on public health issues such as increasing early detection and diagnosis, reducing risk, and preventing avoidable hospitalizations.

The BOLD Infrastructure for Alzheimer’s Act provides for funding to state, local and tribal public health departments to help them implement these effective Alzheimer’s interventions, established Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias Public Health Centers of Excellence, and increased data analysis and timely reporting on Alzheimer’s, cognitive decline, caregiving and health disparities. Since its enactment, the CDC has made 66 awards to 45 state, local and tribal health departments.

In 2024, AIM worked with bipartisan congressional champions to introduce, grow support, and unanimously pass the BOLD Reauthorization Act (P.L.118-142) to ensure this important public health work continues. Thanks to this bipartisan law, public health departments across the nation will have the resources to improve brain health across the life course.

Fueled by our tireless advocates, the Alzheimer’s Impact Movement (AIM) was instrumental in the development, introduction and the passage of both the BOLD Infrastructure for Alzheimer’s Act and the BOLD Reauthorization Act.