National Alzheimer's Plan: A Personal Perspective
Today, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services released our country's first National Alzheimer's Plan, which sets sets a deadline of 2025 for stopping Alzheimer's Disease. In this piece, Dr. Stephen Hume offers a personal perspective on the plan -- as an advocate and as someone with the disease.
It isn’t every day that I am asked to sit in a room and listen to twenty-four highly educated and dedicated professionals plan my future. This opportunity presented itself when I was invited to attend the National Alzheimer’s Project Act (NAPA) advisory council meeting in Washington, D.C. on January 17, 2012.
Four and a half years ago, my partner Candy and I sat in a small office at our regional medical center waiting for the chief of neurology to enter and give us a diagnosis.