Opportunities in Alzheimer's community/advocacy work
Good evening everyone!!! It's been lots of fun lately seeing all the activity here. Your posts have been so fascinating!
I wanted to share two opportunities with the Alzheimer's Association that you can participate in next year.
First - National Alzheimer's Advocacy Day (June 2nd). The national advocacy day involves in-person conversations with legislators and their representatives in Washington DC. We have 4 policy priorities on our agenda this year:
-- ASAP (Alzheimer's screening and prevention) act - requires medicare to cover the new fda approved AD blood test
-- 2 budget requests for research and research infrastructure
-- AADAPT act - requires additional dementia-specific training for primary care providers
Let me know if you're interested in participating in alzheimer's advocacy next year! Youth voices are really important in this space.
Second - Walk to end alzheimer's committee.
-- If you've enjoyed our past Walk to end alzheimer's events and want to take a role in planning/have ideas for improvement, consider joining the Walk committee! I'm also on the committee, and it's genuinely a really cool position to have as a high schooler. Everyone is supportive and passionate, given we're all driven by the same goal - to end alzheimer's as quickly as possible.
-- If you're in NJ/GA, I don't have too much information on your local Association chapters. You'll probably have to reach out yourself to see if there's a Walk committee position available. However, I also recommend just generally connecting pava to your local Alzheimer's Association. See if you can have pava students help them make posters/increase publicity/volunteer at any sort of opportunities or events.
Have a nice memorial day weekend! So happy school's almost out.