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Alzheimer's Report

January 2009

Congratulations Chapter 65 for donating $630 in 2008 to the Alzheimer's Association and to NARFE-Alzheimer's Research! A super-large thank You to the following Chapter 65 members who donated generously in 2008 to support efforts toward finding a cure for this dreaded disease, and to help those afflicted with it: Beatrice Bertwell, Herman Bracey, Mary Brant, Robert Castleton, Florence Chinn, Alma Harris, Isai Kaufman, Miyoko Lee, Elizabeth Rieger, Laura Santiago, and Mary Taylor.
2009, the New Year, is upon us and once again we ask for your financial support for Alzheimer's and I am sure all Chapter 65 members will continue to respond generously in their support of this worthy effort.

The Leadership Council of Aging Organizations (LCAO) recently sent its recommendations to the Obama Administration regarding legislative policies that will improve the lives of America's seniors. The LCAO is a consortium of prominent national aging advocacy organizations that represents millions of older Americans, and the Alliance has been and will be the chair of the organization for the twelve-month period that began on July 1, 2008. In documents available at http://www.lcao.org/docs/121008letter.pdf and http://www.lcao.org/docs/121508letter.pdf, LCAO lays out the top issues facing America's seniors and provides specific recommendations on how to best tackle these tough challenges through a proposed Executive Order. "As the first wave of 79 million baby boomers heads to retirement with less economic security than previous enerations, we face the alarming prospect that many of our seniors will not have enough income to retire securely - if they can even retire at all," said Edward F. Coyle, Chair of LCAO and Executive Director of the Alliance for Retired Americans. Among LCAO's recommendations is that the Obama Administration create a White House Office on Older Adults (or the position of Domestic Policy Council Advisor on Older Adults) to develop, lead and coordinate the Administration's policy agenda on crosscutting issues that assist and empower older Americans. LCAO also recommends giving the Secretary of Health and Human Services the authority to use Medicare's bulk purchasing power to negotiate prescription drug prices, and halting the so-called "premium support" demonstration project in 2010 that would require traditional fee-for-service Medicare to compete, based on cost, with heavily subsidized private plans in certain areas. The coalition also wishes to allow early retirees to buy into Medicare, along with several other steps.      Jesus Ramos

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Here are some helpful links to the Alzheimer's Association web site, telling about their organization , and an interactive tour showing how Alzheimer's affects the brain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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