Category: Alliance Initiatives (Page 3)

This summer the President & CEO here at the Alliance for Aging Research, Dan Perry, was asked to participate in the annual melding of the foremost medical minds known as TEDMED. At the meeting, Dan gave a fantastic 13 minute talk that really summed up how “tantalizingly close” researchers are to that “fountain of youth."  

This expert consensus statement makes important recommendations on the use of stroke and bleeding risk tools, the decision to anticoagulate,…

Economists Receive $75,000 for Work in Aging, Health Care, and Economics

This roundtable explored the risk assessment tools and their limitations, discussed how the tools should be updated to overcome those…

As many as 5.1 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease–the 6th leading cause of death, and as many as…

Calls for at least a 7% increase in NIH funding for FY 2010

While Senators Obama and McCain agree on few things when it comes to overhauling the American health care system, both have acknowledged the importance of a plan that addresses chronic disease—the primary driver of health care costs. 

Last week, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor shared personal testimony before the Senate Special Committee on Aging about the burden of Alzheimer’s disease. O’Connor stepped down from the court in 2006 to care for her husband, who has the disease. As many people know, Alzheimer’s is an overwhelming disease-both on a personal level for families and for society. 

New and Improved Website Spans Personal Health to Policy Issues

The Alliance for Aging Research was a winner in the 16th annual National Mature Media Awards Program, receiving a silver award for the Alzheimer’s Disease: Helping Yourself Help a Loved One workshop kit and a merit award for the 2006 Annual Report.