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Join the cause

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

Add your voice to ours — become an advocate today.

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What is an advocate?

Alzheimer 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.
• Stay on top of policy and legislative issues through alerts and updates.
• Make calls or write to legislators to forward public policy priorities to improve quality of life for those living with Alzheimer’s.

California advocacy

2007 –2008 Legislative Session Priorities

Planning for Alzheimer’s – the Public Health Crisis of the 21st Century

SB 321 (Alquist) would direct California to provide state funding for development of a comprehensive State Plan for Alzheimer’s Disease.  Such a plan would enable California to prepare now to meet the growing demand for health care and other services and to ensure programs and services are dementia capable. 

Enhancing the Alzheimer’s Day Care Resource Centers

AB 317 (Berg) would restore technical assistance and annual training for the 54 Alzheimer’s Day Care Resource Centers.  Technical assistance has not been available for 10 years and annual training for 7 seven years, consequently Centers are finding it increasingly difficult to stay current on the most effective strategies for managing those in the middle and late stages of the disease.  Furthermore, Centers are losing their capability to meet their statutory mandate to be a training center for health professionals in other settings, nursing and gerontology training programs, and family caregivers. 

For more information on these bills and the Association’s other legislative priorities, please visit www.caalz.org.

Federal advocacy

•  Federal update
•  National priorities