Sunday, September 16, 2012

From the Bulletin of Health Policy & Law: A National Alzheimer’s Disease Plan

http://www.bullhpl.org/resources/Publications/OrjalesRD.pdf

A National Alzheimer’s Disease Plan

Erika Orjales

"There is unanimous sentiment in the AD community that AD care and treatment is underfunded. As compared to diseases such as HIV and cancer that receive a $3 and $6 billion annual budget, AD receives under $480 
million.19 As AD is the sixth leading cause of death in the U.S., stakeholders urge the need for funding in order to make that correlation a reality in the search for a cure for AD.20"

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