HR 9105

1	House Resolution
2	A resolution recognizing April 16-22, 2006, as
3	"Alzheimer's Disease Initiative Week" in Florida.
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5	WHEREAS, the Florida Legislature created the Alzheimer's
6	Disease Initiative in 1985 to help families dealing with
7	Alzheimer's and related memory disorders by providing links
8	connecting policy, research, and practice, and the initiative,
9	celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, has grown into a
10	statewide network that includes fifteen regional memory disorder
11	clinics conducting research and training in diagnostic and
12	therapeutic settings, and
13	WHEREAS, there are 435,000 cases of probable Alzheimer's
14	disease in this state, and it is estimated that more than
15	100,000 Floridians have received services from Alzheimer's
16	Disease Initiative programs within the last 10 years alone, and
17	WHEREAS, Alzheimer's respite care programs are operating in
18	all of the state's 67 counties; four model day care programs
19	have been established in conjunction with memory disorder
20	clinics to test therapeutic interventions for people living with
21	memory disorders and to provide training for health care and
22	social service personnel; and the Alzheimer's Disease Brain
23	Bank, a service and research oriented network, is involved in a
24	variety of research activities, and
25	WHEREAS, the Alzheimer's Disease Advisory Committee has
26	taken a leadership role in developing policy recommendations and
27	best practice models to help educate Florida's elders,
28	caregivers, and health care professionals about critical issues
29	affecting people with memory disorders, including an ethics-
30	based policy on driver safety and progressive dementia, a
31	protocol for dealing with behavioral challenges and catastrophic
32	events affecting persons with dementia who are living in nursing
33	homes, and recommendations for specialized care needs for
34	persons with Alzheimer's and related memory disorders and their
35	caregivers who are affected by natural disasters, and
36	WHEREAS, the only program of its kind in the nation when it
37	was established in 1985, the Alzheimer's Disease Initiative
38	continues to maintain that distinction today, NOW, THEREFORE,
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40	Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of
41	Florida:
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43	That the House of Representatives recognizes the week of
44	April 16-22, 2006, as "Alzheimer's Disease Initiative Week" in
45	Florida.

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