What is BOLD Legislation?
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The Building Our Largest Dementia (BOLD) Infrastructure for Alzheimer's Act (P.L. 115-406) is a bipartisan law that will authorize $100 million in funding over five years to create a public health infrastructure to combat Alzheimer's disease. The law was written by Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), and Tim Kaine (D-VA) and it was originally introduced in November 2017. It was signed into law by President Trump on December 31, 2018.
Summary - Building Our Largest Dementia (BOLD) Infrastructure for Alzheimer's Act (P.L. 115-406)
* This law will create an Alzheimer's public health infrastructure across the country to implement effective Alzheimer's interventions focused on public health issues such as increasing early detection and diagnosis, reducing risk and preventing avoidable hospitalizations.
* The BOLD Infrastructure for Alzheimer's Act will accomplish this by establishing Alzheimer's and Related Dementias Public Health Centers for Excellence, providing funding to state, local, and tribal public health departments, and increasing data analysis and timely reporting.
Specifically, the BOLD Infrastructure for Alzheimer's Act authorizes $20 million annually over the next five years, and it directs the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to:
* Establish Alzheimer's and Related Dementias Public Health Centers of Excellence:
* The Centers will increase education of public health officials, health care professionals, and the public on Alzheimer's, brain health, and health disparities;
* The Centers will also provide technical assistance to public health departments across the country in implementing effective Alzheimer's interventions.
* These interventions will focus on priorities such as increasing early detection and diagnosis, reducing risk, preventing avoidable hospitalizations, reducing health disparities, supporting the needs of caregivers and supporting care planning for people living with the disease.
* Finally, the Centers will expand innovative public private partnerships that focus on addressing cognitive impairment and health disparities.
* Award funding to public health departments:
* This funding will help state, local, and tribal public health departments implement effective Alzheimer's interventions, including those identified by the Alzheimer's Centers of Excellence.
* This funding will also help public health departments implement strategic actions like those identified in the Healthy Brain Initiative's Public Health Road Map.
* Increase data and analysis and timely reporting:
* CDC will increase the analysis and timely public reporting of data on Alzheimer's, cognitive decline, caregiving, and health disparities.
* This data will come from sources like the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), the National
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