The National Alzheimer’s Project Act was passed in the House today by a voice vote. The bill now moves to the White House to be signed into law.

 

Over the last few years, the Alzheimer's Association has been the leading voice in urging Congress 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. The Alzheimer's Association's more than 50,000 e-mails, nearly 10,000 phone calls and more than 1,000 advocate meetings led us to the historic legislative victory for the Alzheimer's community.

NAPA Chronology

December 15, 2010
Thousands of advocates flood Capitol Hill with phone calls and e-mails urging their Representatives to vote for NAPA. NAPA is passed by the House of Representatives and moves to the White House for signature.
December 9, 20100
Alzheimer's Association Harry Johns testified before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health. Harry also spoke directly about the importance of NAPA and encouraged its immediate passage.
December 8, 2010
The National Alzheimer's Project Act (S.3036) passed the Senate unanimously and moved to the House of Representatives.
December 6-8, 2010
Alzheimer's Association advocates flood Senate offices with phone calls and e-mails asking Congress to enact NAPA immediately.
December 1, 2010
After months of behind the scenes work by the Alzheimer's Association federal affairs team with champions in Congress, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) moved the National Alzheimer's Project Act (S. 3036).
October 18, 2010
With the release of The Shriver Report: A Woman's Nation Takes on Alzheimer's Disease, repeated appeals are made for the passage NAPA in Hill visits, Administration briefings, Washington policy briefings, and by Maria Shriver in interviews on This Week and other news programs.
September 21, 2010
Concluding the Alzheimer's Breakthrough Ride, on World Alzheimer's Day participants cycled to Capitol Hill and presented more than 110,000 petition signatures for delivery to Congress. The petition called for passage of the National Alzheimer's Project Act and two other Alzheimer's Association priorities. Researchers who participated in the Alzheimer's Breakthrough Ride visited Capitol Hill to meet with more than 50 Members of Congress, urging their support for NAPA.
Later that day, the Alzheimer's Association delivered a message in support of NAPA at a special White House briefing on Alzheimer's disease. Harry Johns, Alzheimer's Association President and CEO, and National Board Member Stephen Hume, Psy.D., an individual living with the disease, made presentations at the meeting, focusing on the urgent need for a coordinated national Alzheimer's strategy and for its swift implementation. See the full video of the White House meeting.
March 9, 2010
Alzheimer's Association Advocacy Forum attendees march on Capitol Hill to meet with their Members of Congress, urging their support for the National Alzheimer's Project Act.
February 2, 2010
With active collaboration and drafting support from the Alzheimer's Association, the National Alzheimer's Project Act is introduced by Senator Evan Bayh and Senator Susan Collins in the Senate (S.3036) and by Rep. Ed Markey and Rep. Chris Smith (H.R.4689) in the House. The Alzheimer's Association immediately endorses the bill.
March 25, 2009
Alzheimer's Study Group releases its final report, A National Alzheimer's Strategic Plan: The Report of the Alzheimer's Study Group. The report calls for the creation of a National Alzheimer's Strategy and an Alzheimer's Project Office within the federal government. Harry Johns, President and CEO of the Alzheimer's Association, pledged, "You can be assured that the Alzheimer's Association will play a leading role in seeking the enactment of the core recommendations present in the ASG report."
That same day, advocates attending the 2009 Alzheimer's Association Advocacy Forum visited their Members of Congress urging support for these key Alzheimer's Study Group recommendations, the beginning of the Association's ongoing campaign to accomplish this objective in the 111th Congress.
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July 11, 2007
With endorsement of, and financial and in-kind support from, the Alzheimer's Association, the Alzheimer's Study Group is launched at a Capitol Hill Conference. The Alzheimer's Study Group is also endorsed at the launch event by then Alzheimer's Disease Task Force co-chairs, then-Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Susan Collins, and Rep. Ed Markey and Rep. Chris Smith, as well as by Senator Barbara Mikulski and Senator Richard Burr.

July 2007
Speaker Newt Gingrich and Robert Egge author an article in Alzheimer's and Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association. This article, "Developing a National Alzheimer's Strategy Equal to the Epidemic," first makes the case for the creation of a federal Alzheimer's strategy.

  
WE DID IT .. WE HAVE ACCOMPLISHED NAPA!!
THANK YOU TO ALL OF FACEBOOK GROUP MEMBERS
FOR THE ACTIONS YOU TOOK TO MAKE THIS DRAM A REALITY
SPECIAL RECOGNITION TO THE FOLLOWING FOR THERE EFFORTS AND FOR BRINGING LIGHT TO THIS GROUP ..
# Lisa Rinaldi-Kohl (West Palm Beach, FL)
# Robin Stewart Stone
# Kimberly Cornilsen (Medford, OR)
#Lisa Micheal (one voice for Mental health Awareness )
#Cristy wells
#Kieth Stanly
if i have forgotten to mention any of you
my apologies but i will make sure to do so by this week ..♥

The National Alzheimer’s Project Act was passed in the House today by a voice vote. The bill now moves to the White House to be signed into law.