Founded 2010 Website www.alzimpact.org | Legal status 501(c)(4) | |
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Motto Create a world without Alzheimer's. Location 1212 New York Ave
Washington, D.C. | ||
The Alzheimer's Impact Movement (AIM) is a registered 501(c)(4) advocacy organization that works in partnership with the Alzheimer's Association. AIM is a membership organization. AIM is non-partisan.
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About
Membership requires an annual contribution that is not tax deductible. AIM also has a corporate membership program. AIM is the sister organization to the Alzheimer's Association, and has a voluntary and non-partisan political action committee, AIMPAC. During the 2016 United States Presidential primary season AIM conducted a variety of activities in an attempt to make candidates aware of Alzheimer's disease and elicit direct policy responses from them. The efforts generated media coverage in the form of newspaper articles, blog posts and published photographs featuring candidates posing with Alzheimer's advocates. Aim and the Alzheimer's Association has a 24/7 helpline to provide advice, information, and support for Alzheimer's caregivers.
Political Activism and Research
AIM and the Alzheimer's Association have worked with the U.S. Goverment to achieve the goal of preventing and effectively treat Alzheimer's disease by 2025. This goal requires research funding of a minium $2 billion per year. In the last five years AIM and Alzheimer's Association has more than doubled funding for research. Today funding for Alzheimer's and dementia research at the national Institutes of health (NIH) is $991 million. AIM state that our health care system falls far short of providing enough support for those who live with Alzheimer's and their caregivers. In November 2016 AIM successfully persuaded the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services (CMS) to pay for cognitive and functional assessments and care planning. Starting in 2017, for the first time, people living with Alzheimer's will have access to care planning with medical professionals covered by Medicare.