The new California budget was signed by Governor Schwarzenegger on Tuesday, July 28, 2009. Although protected by the Legislature in the budget process, the Governor opted to eliminate the Alzheimer’s Day Care Resource Centers (ADCRC), the Linkages Program and reduce funding by 70% to the Caregiver Resource Centers (CRC), as part of his effort to balance the budget.

These programs offered families caring for persons with Alzheimer’s one of the few options for accessing respite care and caregiver education.  With the ADCRC program being eliminated, many Adult Day Programs will be on difficult ground to offer their array of day services; and similarly many of the CRCs will be hard pressed to remain open with such limited funding.

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Nevada advocacy

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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.

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Federal advocacy

•  Federal update
•  National priorities